Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure The lyric went like this: “If six of y’all went out, then four of you were really cheap. ‘Cause only two of you had dinner. I found your credit card receipt.” The blend of simple arithmetic and deductive reasoning from...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure To love me, you best love watching the moon and the stars. Know where Jupiter and Venus show up in the Northeastern sky. To love me, you must love the silence of New York at 4 in morning. You must love the corner of...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Love is about imagination. So I got on the number 1 train headed uptown, and announced to no one and everyone, that I, was available. I sashayed down the center of the car Shaking and shimming, Slithering down a pole...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Thursday 9:47 p.m. Her phone rings. She contemplates ignoring the call, but a second before it rolls to voicemail, she picks up. “Hello.” “Hey baby, it’s me. How’s it going?” She smiles and shakes her head. “I’m fine,...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Special Issue 24: Pleasure Means Moving Authentically All year, we’re accepting work from writers of marginalized identities for the Quarterly. This first issue is devoted to BIPOC surrounding the idea of pleasure....
