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

Jeffrey Hecker is author of Rumble Seat (San Francisco Bay Press, 2011) & chapbooks Hornbook (Horse Less Press, 2012), Instructions for the Orgy (Sunnyoutside Press, 2013) & Ark Aft (The Magnificent Field, 2020). Recent work appears in Laurel Review and Bennington Review. A fourth-generation Kepanī via Hawaii, he teaches at The Muse Writers Center & reads for Quarterly West. @heckheck03.bsky.social
  • Colin Luther Powell Crying

    Colin Luther Powell Crying

    In “Colin Luther Powell Crying,” poet Jeffrey Hecker satirizes the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his role in the failed 1993 invasion of Somalia.