Anniversaries are cause for celebration—not quiet, not sighed. Book of Matches welcomes Issue 16 as the mark of 5 years keeping promises to honor, welcome, and praise the bravery of words made manifest in its pages. There is marble and iron freezing under our fingers in the January hours ahead, but by this fire, these pages, warms gifts unravel their ribbons and beckon you to stay a long, long while.   Unlace your boots and wriggle tendons closer to these embers. There are w

It's September and already we walk beneath trees neither fully green nor gold. We're caught between thumb and forefinger of things...

There is so much satisfaction in longing. We wait through coolness for the violence of a daffodil’s yellow and wait through rain for the...

As we pull out a chair from our table to offer the New Year a seat, it is wise to keep our eyes trained on the window ahead, and the dirt...