Mya Spalter

Mya Spalter is the author of Enchantments (The Dial Press, 2022) and the chapbook Crush Reactor (2019). She’s a member of the 25th anniversary tour of Sister Spit and a Brooklyn Poets Fellow.

Spirit Matrix

‘The Shining’ By Dorothea Lasky

Wave Books, October 2023, 88 pp. The writing mind is a haunted house ringing with the voices of the dead. When I told her that I’d never seen the film, Dotti was astounded. It was raining. From beneath the awning, the air was washed with streaky neon and headlights. Dorothea

VOLUME 2: ISSUE 4
WINTER 2024

Crit

In Harmony: On ‘It’s Only Life After All,’ Directed by Alexandria Bombach

Emily Saliers and Amy Ray c. 1990. Photo by Michael Lavine. ONE OF THE most powerful revelations in Alexandria Bombach’s new documentary about the multiplatinum, still-touring-and-recording Indigo Girls is the fact that Amy Ray and Emily Saliers met when they were twelve years old. I fucking knew it! I screamed

VOLUME 2: ISSUE 3
FALL 2023

Hell is Other People

‘A Year on Earth with Mr. Hell’ by Young Kim

Omnibus Press, May 2023, 254 pp. “EVERYONE THINKS THEY know what a love affair is. But what is a love affair really?” Young Kim asks this right off the bat in her debut memoir, A Year on Earth with Mr. Hell, the subject of which is her own personal experience

VOLUME 2: ISSUE 2
SUMMER 2023