An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

Amie Zimmerman is from Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Denver Quarterly, Prelude, Lana Turner, Paperbag, and Elderly Magazine, among others. She is the author of four chapbooks, including Compliance (Essay Press) and, with artist Samantha Wall, the collaboration 31 Days/The Self (Ursus Americanus). Currently, Amie lives in upstate NY, where she works as a hairstylist, union organizer, and PhD student.  
  • Plain Speech

    Plain Speech

    Poet Amie Zimmerman’s “Plain Speech” is a call for radical endurance from within the imperial core: “we swim in the weapons quarry,” she writes. But “when the quarry is drained let them find nothing.”