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 […]

IN Summer 2018

Fall 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

on The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

on Sea Change by Gina Chung

on Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

Janine Joseph Takes on How Personhood and Credibility Enter the Record (on Janine Joseph’s...

South to a New Place: Imani Perry and Adolph Reed Jr. on Racial Reckoning...

on This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings

on The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson

on White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

Fall 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

on The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

on Sea Change by Gina Chung

on Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

Janine Joseph Takes on How Personhood and Credibility Enter the Record (on Janine Joseph’s...

South to a New Place: Imani Perry and Adolph Reed Jr. on Racial Reckoning...

on This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings

on The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson

on White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

Fall 2023

Emily Tuszynska

Afternoon Sun at the End of Summer

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...