Phillip Aijian holds a PhD in Renaissance drama and theology from UC Irvine as well as an MA in poetry from the University of Missouri. In addition to teaching literature he has published in journals like ZYZZYVA, Heron Tree, Poor Yorick, and Zocalo Public Square and is currently working on a variety of art commissions.
Four summers back I saw myself breaking my hand against a man’s face, interrupting a word so certain and raw I would not listen, and my fist named him a liar. But I only watched, one eye keeping target, the other dilating with drops from an approaching, wounded future. The doctor is smiling now, or […]
The tech industry, of course, cured sleep
It’s the 1% of the 1% now who sleep, dream, and, in a reversal that few predicted, make a great show of doing their own laundry. They fawn over their Egyptian carbon sheets, platinum washing machines, and scented detergent far more than their hybrid rocket-yachts that ease with thunder from the Caribbean to the Sea […]
A poem by Phillip Aijian
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