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2023
The Case of the Missing Earrings by Karina Castrillo
The Cat that Wears the Night Sky for Skin: Charles Bowden and the Northern Jaguar By John Macker
In Memory of Mike James By Chase Dimock
It’s 2023, and We Still Need to Read Sally Carrighar By Sue Blaustein
Tim Peeler and the Life of the Poem By Mike James
In Defense of Prose Poetry By Howie Good
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2022
I Can’t Bring Myself to Birth You Yet By Jaclyn J. Reed
Bathtub Prayers By Fay L. Loomis
Robin Hood, Where Are You? By Daniel Vollaro
Baseball Back By Brian Connor
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2021
Skepticism, Fantasy, and the QAnon Shaman By Christopher Carrico
The Dangers of Credulity By David J. Frost
A life. Of sorts. Or, 18 ways to remember my love By Diana Rosen
Diary in Reverse: Boys Will Be Boys By Cody Sexton
Riot of the Fiftysomethings By Daniel Vollaro
2020
Waiting for the Quiet By Teresa Yang
Baseball Bastardized By Brian Connor
Stuart Z. Perkoff By John Macker
Blue Collar Blues: The Poetry of Wayne F. Burke By Arthur Hoyle
What if Bill Mazeroski Missed First Base? By Bruce Harris
2019
I Don’t Want Your Hug: A grieving mother’s meditation on the subject of hugs By Carrie Thompson
The Body of Shirley Ann Sexton By Cody Sexton
War? Rumors of War? By John Guzlowski
Impressions From the Land of Vanished Beautiful Things By Stephen Mead
Frankly, I’m Not Doing Well By Daniel Crocker
The Misery of Fun By Nathan Graziano
Acetylene Sunsets: Edward Dorn’s Recollections of Gran Apacheria By John Macker
2018
Mania Makes Me a Better Poet By Daniel Crocker
Capitol Island By Robert Boucheron
My Bipolar Ex-Love By Nathan Graziano
It Ain’t No Lie, Baby By Daniel Crocker
What Would Jesus Say By Robert Boucheron
In The Mental Architecture of the Deceased By Chase Dimock
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2017
Lead By Daniel Crocker
Growing up on the Island of Misfit Toys or: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as a Queer Allegory By Chase Dimock
Learning From (Illinois) Nazis By Ezra Claverie
Different From the Others: LGBT History Month and the Almost Century-Old Legacy of an Early Gay Rights Film By Chase Dimock
Language and Loss by John Guzlowski
Remembering Okla Elliott with Michael Young By Michael Young
As It Ought To Be Mourns the Loss of its Founder By Sivan Butler-Rotholz
The Social and Spiritual Possibilities of Lent by Okla Elliott
Against Provocation: a Roundabout Response to John Sanford Friedrich By Eric Kroczek
The New Age of Political Protest by John Sandford Friedrich
Notes on the Women’s March By Leslie McGrath
In Defense of Memory by Michael T. Young
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2016
This Train Is Bound for Glory by Okla Elliott
Keep Loving. Keep Fighting By Brett Ashley Kaplan
Farewell for Now: Spencer Keeton Cunningham Departs San Francisco By Matt Gonzalez
Trump Unfriendings by Danusha V. Goska
10 Ways to Murder You with My Yard by Christy Vlachos Jones
God: Both Source and River By Karen Craigo
The Storms in Philadelphia By Okla Elliott
Who Is Tim Kaine?: A Pro/Con Analysis By Okla Elliott
Five Scenes from the RNC Convention: Dispatch #2 By Okla Elliott
All This Mayhem: Dispatch #1 By Okla Elliott
Here, Now By Paul Crenshaw
The Rooftop in Islamabad by Yasmeen Qasimi
The New Era of Engaged Literature By Okla Elliott
21st Century Politics and The “F” Word M.E. “Spike” Allen
The Zen of Bernie Sanders: Even in Politics, You Can Be in the Now By Holly Le Craw
Bernie Sanders’ Gay Pride Day Proclamation and the History of LGBT Advocacy By Chase Dimock
Why I Am Voting for Bernie Sanders By Vishal Bakshi
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2015
When Hillary Clinton Plays the Victim We All Lose By Lynn Houston
Notes Toward a Politico-Sexual Psychology of Consuming Animals By A. Marie Houser
What We Learned from the Roosters By John Unger Zussman
Four Ways Sanders Is a Better Candidate than Clinton By Okla Elliott
Four Ways Bernie Sanders Won the First Democratic Debate By Okla Elliott
The Myth of the Apolitical American Poet By Michael T. Young
Think The Vampire Diaries Is Just Lowbrow TV? Your Loss By Norah Vawter
IN PLACES FAR NICER: On Being Adjunct Faculty at a Liberal Arts University By John Carr Walker
Five Thoughts on Cecil the Lion—Or: How the Internet Really Botched This One By Okla Elliott
Who Is Bernie Sanders? By Okla Elliott
Time for the Professoriate to Lead the Way By William Trent Pancoast
Things to Worry About By Norah Vawter
Eat it, xoJane. I’m a Stay-at-Home-Mom and I Have a Job to Do By Jenny Kanevsky
A Rereading of the “Most demanding 1st birthday invite ever” By Anoosh Jorjorian
What Happens When a Famous Rapper Falls in Love with Your Quote By Mik Everett
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2014
We Can’t Breathe By Sarah Marcus
In Using My Voice and Social Media Platforms More Effectively (step two) By Perry Janes
Gayle King Is Wrong: Street Harassment Is Not a Compliment By Leslie Maxwell
Sentience Matters: Zoöeconomics — A Call to Recognize Nonhuman Sentience in Political and Economic Thought By Gabriel Gudding
Sentience Matters: What Is a Zombie — Meat Consumption and the Advent of the Automobile By Gabriel Gudding
An Unnecessary Defense of William T. Vollmann’s Last Stories and Other Stories By Jordan A. Rothacker
The Etiquette Of Police Brutality: An Autopsy By Rion Amilcar Scott
Everyone is Guilty of Something By John Unger Zussman
Finding Courage: My #YesAllWomen By Amy Gigi Alexander
Signage By Hannah Stephenson
Because Misogyny By Kirsten Clodfelter
Another Way of Seeing the Ukraine By Peter Gabel
Sentience Matters: Farmed Animals as Hypothetical Beings — A Thought Experiment By Gabriel Gudding
Plotting Against Plot By Vincten Czyz
Cash By John Unger Zussman
The House By Hannah Finney
Yes, Actually, There is a Huge Problem with Pink By Kirsten Clodfelter
Thinking of Chickens By Paul Crenshaw
Sentience Matters: Animal Rights and Literature By Gabriel Gudding
The Human Flame War By Tini Howard
Elie Faure in a Declining Empire By Michael T. Young
Women Are “Just More Emotional” By Sarah Marcus
Listen to Dylan Farrow By Stephanie Goehring
Hell Yes, I’m Intolerant By Joanna Schroeder
When Your Student Dies During the Semester By Angie Mazakis
Being Hannah Horvath: How Seriously Should We Take Girls? By Leslie Maxwell
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2013
The Consumer By Hannah Phinney
The Final Bakesale By Sony Huber
Growing up on the Island of Misfit Toys or: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as a Queer Allegory By Chase Dimock
Gawker is Defending Snark and It’s Such a Good Feeling To Explain Why They Are Wrong By Allan Mott
Where Is the Million Hoodie March for Renisha McBride? By Zerlina Maxwell
Guy Davenport: A Tribute By Vincent Czyz
An Open Letter to Charlotte Raven about My Footwear and My Feminism By Kirsten Clodfelter
Three Ways I Was Beaten By Ariella Yendler
What Would Stephanie Say? By Stephanie Goehring
Little Known Bible Verses (Preceded by a Rather Long Note) or Why You Won’t Find This Piece on The Good Men Project By Rion Amilcar Scott
Emily Yoffe: Don’t Empower My Rapist Kirsten Clodfelter
Men Go to Battle, Women Wage War By Kurt Baumeister
Miley Cyrus Deserves Better Than Our Slut-Shaming And So Do Our Daughters By Kirsten Clodfelter
Between a Rocky and a Hard Place: How Rocky Balboa Taught Your Mom to Fear Black Men and Communism By Dale Bridges
An Open Letter to North Carolina’s Governor By Paul Crenshaw
Secularism and Compartmentalization By Kenneth Nichols
Constitutionality of Recent SCOTUS Decisions — DOMA and Voting Rights By Matthew Nelson
Masculinity, Reading, and Twilight By Dennis Wilson Wise
How Fashion Is Queer By Alison Bancroft
4/19/2013 By James Tadd Adcox
The Pope is Coming! The Pope is Coming! By John Unger Zussman
EVA HESSE By Matt Gonzalez
Danica Patrick Can Do Whatever She Wants With Her Body By Kirsten Clodfelter
Okay but Seriously, Stop Blaming the Victim By Kirsten Clodfelter
Justice Scalia or: How I Learned to Stop Ranting and Love the Assault Weapon By Juliet L. Ensign-Neary
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2012
My Favorite First Line By Jordan A. Rothacker
This Is My Rifle By Paul Crenshaw
What Nancy Lanza Knew By Sonya Huber
The Weight of a Gun By Tawnysha Greene
A MEMOIR By Michael Lasher
Why Don’t You Come Up Sometime and Queer Me?: Reclaiming Mae West as Author and Sexual Philosopher By Chase Dimock
Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley By Matt Gonzalez
An Epidemic of Overtreatment By John Unger Zussman
Is More Health Care Better? By John Unger Zussman
Fakecrack Nation By Billee Sharp
Snakelocks und die “Sex-Granny” By Billee Sharp
Tolerating the Intolerable? (Or: Why We Should Not be Tolerant of Chick-fil-A) By Lindsey Mason
Saint Turing: A Few Reflections on Gay Iconography and Martyrdom on the Occasion of Alan Turing’s 100th Birthday By Chase Dimock
Groan of Drones By Billee Sharp
Magic and the Link Compliment of the Borromean Rings in America by Albert Herter
The Aestheticization of Brazilian Misery By Diego Costa
Plastic Islands & District 11 Bread. By Billee Sharp
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre By Okla Elliott
A Crisis in Bahrain By Yahya T. Ali
From the Same Source as Her Power: A Threnody for Adrienne Rich By Chase Dimock
Occupy Spaceship Earth or… Downton Abbey? By Billee Sharp
Robert McAlmon’s Psychoanalyzed Girl and the Popularization of Psychoanalysis in America By Chase Dimock
Existential Echoes: Toward a Genealogy of Ideas in Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus” By Okla Elliott
My Presidential Endorsement Strategy: Barack Obama, Ron Paul, and the Green Party By Okla Elliott
The Revolution Will Be Edible: Occupy Wall Street; the Arab Spring, No Bread, No Peace By Liam Hysjulien
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Favorites from the Deep Archives
Space is the Place by Billee Sharp
In Search of a Canon by Jordan A. Rothacker
Existential Echoes by Okla Elliott
Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the UN by Karim Abuawad
The Surreal Sex of Beauty: Jean Cocteau and Man Ray’s “Le Numéro Barbette” by Chase Dimock
INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: Theorizing Wisconsin by Christopher Carrico
Incomplete Thoughts on Wisconsin and Political Enthusiasm by Okla Elliott
Socialism or Barbarism in Egypt and Beyond: An Open Question by Chris Carrico
Sin’s Fatal Taint: the Felony Murder Rule and its Discontents by Okla Elliott
INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: Cast Away Illusions, Part 2 by Christopher Carrico
The Coming Crisis of Op-Ed Food: What Class Says About Food… by Liam Hysjulien
Open Letter: A Pre-Post-Mortem by John Halle
Tom Hayden vs. John Halle: An Exchange by John Halle and Tom Hayden
An Open Letter to the Left Establishment by Matt Gonzalez et al.
INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: Cast Away Illusions, Part 1 by Christopher Carrico
The Coming Crisis of Global Food: Hunger, Crisis and the Canary in the Coalmine by Liam Hysjulien
Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi by Matt Gonzalez
The Coming Crisis of Global Food: High Costs, High Fats, and the Age of Globesity by Liam Hysjulien
INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: AMERICAN CAPITALIST TRIUMPHALISM AND THE LIBERAL HUMAN RIGHTS PARADIGM by Chris Carrico
The Coming Crisis of Western Food: Critical Theory, Social Problems and Food by Liam Hysjulien
The Art of Failure by Okla Elliott
As It Ought To Be 