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

Chris Campanioni’s research connecting migration and media studies has been recognized with the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary work and a Mellon Foundation fellowship, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize, International Latino Book Award, and Academy of American Poets College Prize. Recent books include north by north/west (West Virginia University Press) and Drift Net: The Aesthetics of Literature and Media in Migration (Lever Press).
  • we never hear about the fathers of birds

    we never hear about the fathers of birds

    Poet Chris Campanioni’s “we never hear about the fathers of birds” explores the contradictory ways the self is formed, concluding that “the rich // confusion between a thing & / I arrives always / through violence.”