For over 20 years, Epiphany has published literature that guides readers toward unexpected revelation. Learn more about us and the writers we publish.
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Strange Days: James Tate’s “The Government Lake”
These verbal capsules contain universes—seemingly ordinary worlds that transform, as a matter of course, in unexpected and mysterious ways. A woman gets a stomachache and lays an egg. A man gives mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a seahorse and floats out to sea. I’m finding them to be perfect reading for a pandemic.
The Epiphany 10: An Interview with Amy Bonnaffons
Once you throw out there, Hey, it’s like our world, except there are these sexy angels, and there’s this afterlife office! I felt pressure to close the loop and explain it all.
Love, the Verb
Everyone thinks they know what love is, but most have no clue. Reading hooks' works on love, you’ll likely discover, for the most part, that nobody loves you. Not your family, not your friends, not your “lover.” You also might discover that you don’t love anyone either.
The Panoramic Grave: Rediscovering Brandon Shimoda’s “The Desert”
It is difficult to track the speaker of Shimoda’s poems, as his work permeates the delineation between self and other. With this untethering, Shimoda creates a body of text and formal space that unites human and nonhuman aspects of the desert, embodying it as something internal.
“Sport” & “Disassociation”
“Call this depression on a midnight chime where the dog comes out of a clock and yelps 12 times to compete with my own.”
Dystopian Distractions: Apocalyptic Fiction to Read in Self-Isolation
Here are some of the books that have kept me occupied in isolation, and have helped me forget about this mess we’re in, by immersing my imagination in even bigger, scarier messes.
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