Stnic (pronounced “Saint-Nic,” or “Satan-ic”) is an experimental music project from Iowa City, IA. Based in a regular practice of free improvisation, musicians Patrick O’Connor, Levi Brown, Jordan Decker, and Charlotte Leung defy categorization by choosing to play without predetermined styles or goals; there is a constant sense of searching shared by the performers and audience.

"Have you ever been curious about the process behind each issue of Brink? Brink editor in chief Hannah Bonner and Brink founder and publisher Nina Lohman discuss the formation of Brink Issue 11: On the Brink of Obsession, from the conception of this issue’s theme and the discovery that emerges through the issue’s curation. We’re excited to share this glimpse into the process of making Brink...."

"Writer, editor, and cultural icon Rachelle Toarmino’s second poetry collection Hell Yeah (Third Man Books, 2025) is alive with the thrashing sounds of pleasure and play. Like taking a gummy edible while a pop-punk love song plays on repeat, Toarmino’s poetry stimulates the body as often as it stimulates the brain...."

Re:View by Hannah Bonner Fall 2025 RE:VIEW A few weeks before the release of our tenth issue, On the Brink of Renewal, I sat down with...

"Isabella DeSendi, whose poetry appears in our seventh issue On the Brink of Relief, is a stunning, urgent voice in the field of contemporary poetry. Her debut book Someone Else’s Hunger explores sexual violence, femininity, mythology, family, and race with lyrical prowess and narrative propulsion...."

"I notice that writers of prose, documentarians, dog owners, florists, virgos, and people who like feature-length films tend to make video essays, whereas poets, sculptors, ceramicists, vegetarians, and performance artists tend to make cinepoems."

“Find them, and let them travel with you on the path that your work wants to take.”

"With the cool precision of Joan Didion and the smoky lyricism of Renata Adler, Sally Lawton’s On Second Thought (Diagram Press, 2023) is a scintillating collection of production diaries, script marginalia, and short auto-fictions that probe motherhood, filmmaking, and ways of seeing with ardent acumen. What does it mean, On Second Thought asks, to understand a narrative? To figure out the innate connection between two seemingly disparate ideas or things?"

"I find enjambment most compelling when it’s a means to shock, and the subversion or undercutting you mention. I mean shock as a kind of..."

"The mother figure is, at once, my literal birth mother, my adoptive mother, and a nebulous origin point..."

"It’s winter-spring. A blue, sunny chill. Sleep and hyacinth. Today I met with a friend with whom I have an ongoing creative..."

"The space between waking and dreaming presents a brief opening of possibility and is the same space we enter and move through in..."

"I first read Lara Mimosa Montes' THRESHOLES while the forest around me burned. Obscured by fire and smoke, I imagined the landscape..."

"parses the language and acts of love and sex, trauma and violence, with the stark, plainspoken language of a desert, seared..."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "These poems pulse with ardor, expectation, and the possibility of touch’s physical and affective potential."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "organizes itself in four sections, Shorts, Shirts, Skorts, and Skirts, where the body becomes cloth or flame..."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "I read Catherine Pond’s Fieldglass three months after my last heartbreak."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "Vi Khi Nao’s sixteenth book Fish Carcass (2022) is a poetic Petri dish of lived experience."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "I don’t remember the first touch or the first comment when I was a girl that conjured me as a woman."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "Here’s a slim confession: I have asked the last two men I loved to spit in my mouth, and neither one obliged."