Emily Tuszynska

Emily Tuszynska lives in Fairfax, Virginia. Other recent work of hers can be read in Poetry Northwest, Water-Stone Review, Salamander, the Southern Review, and elsewhere.

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Afternoon Sun at the End of Summer

The children wade naked and thigh-deep in stone-colored water. They duck under and come up flinging drops from their hair. Wind raises gooseflesh on their arms. Touch is the miracle, wrote Whitman. Touch is the earth’s language and the children speak it. They revel in it. Wind and water, and the hard, wave-patterned sand […]

IN Summer 2018

Past Issues

Spring 2020

Winter 2019

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Across the Rock

Writing the Immigrant Southern in the New New South

The Citizenship Question, or, The Actors of Dearborn

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

The Gay Horizon

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (wit...

Conjuring the Past: Cy Gavin’s Bermuda Paintings

on Census by Jesse Ball

on Loves You by Sarah Gambito

on Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison

on In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché

Etymology, Ecology, and Ecopoetics

“What Else Might Be Available”: Three Contemporary Lineages of the Poetry Pro...

Post-Metamorphic: The Poetry of Modern Motherhood

on Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu