Issue Zero
Spring 2020Invisible City makes the unseen seen through words and art. From unheard voices to imagined landscapes, what was once hidden is now visible.
In Process + Poetry / Shane McCrae
You never had the chance to read the books I read
but in the books I read
The theologians argue we sleep between
death and the new life on the new Earth we don’t go to Heaven..."Read the full poem and drafts →
How Could You Have Loved God in Heaven
"Grandmother in the books I read I knowYou never had the chance to read the books I read
but in the books I read
The theologians argue we sleep between
death and the new life on the new Earth we don’t go to Heaven..."Read the full poem and drafts →
In Process + Fiction / Ana Menéndez
Pay Attention
"I wrote ‘Pay Attention’ partially as a pedagogical exercise to explain how a story can evolve from an anecdote. The point being that as Alice Munro wrote: 'Anecdotes don’t make good stories… I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.'"Read the story and draft →Essay / R.S.
Dylan Dog
"Then he laughs and a web of wrinkles appears around his eyes. I know he’ll like the card—he knows all about comics, and film, and television. I’ll write some corny joke on the second page, something that says, you’re getting old, but you’re smoking hot and you keep my fire well-lit."Read the essay →Poetry / Daniel Callahan
like the stars in the distance—
placeholder the other side
or 0, the shell of the circle
washed onto the sand
who plays no ocean song
when conjoined to the ear..."
Read the full poem →
The Absent
"or 0, emptinesslike the stars in the distance—
placeholder the other side
or 0, the shell of the circle
washed onto the sand
who plays no ocean song
when conjoined to the ear..."
Read the full poem →
Interview / John O'Rourke
Curiouser and Curiouser
The Wondering Mind of Elena Paserello
"It sounds like an incredibly tall order, but Passarello’s drive to fully unveil her subjects—as well as who she is as a writer—seems to know few bounds. The final essay of Let Me Clear My Throat takes the form of a questionnaire completed by a ventriloquist’s dummy who has decided to emancipate himself from his human master..." Read the interview →Founding Editorial Board
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