Here at OPOSSUM, we’ve had the honor of bringing a lot of exciting new work our readers, but perhaps this takes the cake: for our Fall 2017 issue, award-winning poet Cyrus Cassells offered us the opportunity to give the world its first glimpse of his ambitious forthcoming novel, My Gingerbread Shakespeare. Now we’re happy to […]
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Human out of Me by Steve Durham
We’re super excited to see our friend Steve Durham’s essay “Human out of Me” listed as a notable essay in 2017’s Leslie Jamison-edited Best American Essays! To celebrate, we’re posting his essay, from our Fall 2016 issue, here in full. It’s the right time of year for it – these short, cold, dark days. Steve’s essay emerges […]
Boris the Bloodhound by Jennifer Lynn Christie
When Jennifer Lynn Christie told us she wanted to collaborate with her partner in love and crime, musician David Brown, on a recording of her story “Boris the Bloodhound,” we jumped up like short legged dogs going for the roast on the table. We love stuff like this and had a hunch that Jennifer and […]
On Nonmonogamy (and more!) by Tatiana Ryckman
Today we feature Tatiana Ryckman’s brilliant flash piece, “On Nonmonogamy,” from our Fall 2016 issue. Tatiana was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of two chapbooks of prose, Twenty-Something and VHS and Why it’s Hard to Live, as well as the novella, I Don’t Think of You (Until I Do) forthcoming from Portland, Oregon’s […]
In the Current: An Interview with Richard Morse
As Haiti kicks off its month-long Carnival celebrations, OPOSSUM presents John B. Edgar’s interview with band leader and hotelier Richard Morse, which originally appeared in our FALL 2016 ISSUE. We’ve added video links to music by Morse’s pioneering voodoo singer/dance/folklorist mother, Morse’s new wave band, The Groceries, and his current mizik rasin band RAM. We […]
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OPOSSUM on VINYL
Folks who haven’t yet acquired a copy of OPOSSUM’s debut FALL 2016 ISSUE – and those of you who have but don’t have a record player – must be dying to hear what’s on that little red slab of vinyl in the marsupial pocket in back. Wait no longer! Here are the three tracks in […]
The White Albums
Today is the 48th anniversary of the release of The Beatles, better known as the White Album. To celebrate, here’s an outtake from the tumultuous recording sessions for that album, capturing “Revolution” as well as bits that would become “Revolution 9” before the mitosis of those two songs was complete. Note: it sounds better if […]