Lately, I’ve been thinking about love songs. I’m attracted to them as a form, and moreover, to the idea of what they can teach us, and what we can learn from looking for the love song in a particular story or poem or in the world around us. I think about how difficult a form […]
The Anthropoid staff are proud to present our nominations for Sundress Publications’ annual Best of the Net Anthology! Non-fiction “On Beauty” by Rebecca Hazelwood “Scribble Scholar Was Here” by Clay Shields Fiction “The Exhibit” by Branden Boyer-White “A Thing in Motion” by Meredith Luby Poetry “Hunger Artists” by Bill Freedman “seshat” by Scherezade Siobhan “the whole unprecious” […]
—souls connecting and bonding, as one poet here would have it— are rooted in place.Are we from the same place? you might think when you meet someone who gives you a familiar sensation. My body is only one place my spirit has been over the course of the universe. *** I call my grandmother to […]
Welcome to Anthropoid’s Second issue: Folk. In this issue: A plague of beetles, ultimate grand supreme, big sky country, the ultimate flower, #notyourtonto, goldfish obituaries, and a woman grows gills. To us, Folk is a collective of the human landscape; its clans, tribes, kinships, and legacies. But the collective is made up of individuals. We are isolated within […]
helsey Zibell was raised in the village of Noorvik in northwest Alaska. She attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks as a UA Scholar and obtained a BA in English and Iñupiaq Eskimo. She is working on an MA/MFA in Poetry. Chelsey’s goal is to teach high school English (and hopefully Iñupiaq) in rural Alaska and […]
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