A Part Time Midwesterner’s Perspective of Robinson Alone

Erin Breen uses her geographic perspective to review Kathleen Rooney’s poetry collection, Robinson Alone.

Time for the Grind: Parallax Interviews Poet Katherine Factor

It’s National Poetry Month! Parallax editor Jordan Sternberg interviewed IAA’s Poet-in-Residence, Katherine Factor, on writing and editing.

What Did One Beating Heart Say to the Other Beating Heart? Questions & Answers with Nate Pritts.

Nate Pritts sits down with Ana Garcia and Becky Hirsch to discuss H_NGM_N, his literary journal created to give the beating heart of poems a place to speak.

Combining Text and Sound with Laura Wetherington

Laura discusses the experimental art of text and sound from her online journal, Textsound.

Recent Work

The Shanghai Excursion

Stephanie Guo, the marzipan-loving flute player, takes us on a trip through a Shanghai market.

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Psychological Examinations for the Existentialists

Isaac Dwyer peers around Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi’s Fra Keeler, and finds a whole lot of neuroses, pomegranates, and manila folders.

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Ekphrasis (The Portrait)

Talking to inanimate objects is something that Stephanie Guo, the marzipan-loving flute-player, understands.

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The Enchanted Family Forest

Erin Breen’s short story “The Enchanted Family Forest” explores the decay of a family and its patriarch.

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Apocalypse

Amalia Bowen-Sicalides’s poem “Apocalypse” deals with an apocalypse of the heart.

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Warm Smoke in November

Luis is a sophomore at IAA, the Parallax poetry editor, and in this piece he explores a love story in the month of November.

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D Minus 39

Dante Yardas´s poem, a winner in the Parallax-Online Apocalypse Writing Contest, takes us to the depths of the apocalypse.

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Slammin’ Down with Andrea Gibson

Sabrina talks poetry and activism with Andrea Gibson.

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Early Judgments

Clint Margrave’s The Early Death of Men will die on you early – if you’re expecting something filled with skulls.

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