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

Jon Hoel is a poet and critic from New England. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming with Burial Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Jacket2, Liverpool University Press, The Massachusetts Review, and Pittsburgh Review of Books.
  • In a Generous Way

    In a Generous Way

    Poet Jon Hoel’s “In a Generous Way” navigates grief through the history of Spanish fascism: “I return to my past again,” he writes, “a gibbon / in the maw of loss.”