Two Poems by Zachery Elbourne

The Seventh WaveFebruary 11, 2019

Zachery Elbourne is a child of New Orleans currently living in Northampton, MA where they are an MFA Candidate at the UMass...

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Three Pieces by Sadia Hassan

The Seventh WaveFebruary 4, 2019

In the Beginning I Am Not your body. & so I hear in the beginning I am not 12 & I hear hips swinging a wide bridge a chorus swelling in the bass of my ...

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On Authenticity, Unfiltered Anger, and Wanting Words to Matter

The Seventh WaveNovember 20, 2018

A Conversation With the Hosts of #BlackGirlsTexting and almostchill By Editor Joyce Chen   When it comes to jostling for a seat at the table, the wome...

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Female While in Mexico

The Seventh WaveNovember 15, 2018

Female While in Mexico by Paulette Jonguitud   Hers is a country of dead people. All those graves scattered over the hill, the white crosses, the ange...

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Outline of What I Want to Say to My Sister

The Seventh WaveNovember 13, 2018

Outline of What I Want to Say to My Sister by Christine Pakkala   I. A. On the phone, you tell me you were frozen, then brought back to life. The fre...

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On Wounds, Stories as Sense-Making, and the Power of Critical Distance

The Seventh WaveOctober 28, 2018

A Conversation With Melissa Febos, Author of Abandon Me  By Editor Brett Rawson   I discovered Abandon Me while researching shadows. I’m unsure how my...

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What Do You Know About One-Night Stands?

The Seventh WaveOctober 25, 2018

What Do You Know About One-Night Stands? by Joanna Acevedo     You will be twenty or twenty-one or twenty-two, no younger than nineteen, no older than...

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The Enigma

The Seventh WaveOctober 22, 2018

The Enigma by Tara Rose Stromberg   I was looking for Samuel Bernstein's novel, Lulu, at The Strand, a giant stack of books teetering in the crook of ...

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Issue 9: “What We Lose”

The Seventh WaveOctober 22, 2018

Issue 9: "What We Lose" is now closed for submissions. What are we willing to give up of ourselves, our morals, or our beliefs, in order to attain some form of ...

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Plainclothes Agenda

The Seventh WaveOctober 16, 2018

Plainclothes Agenda by Christopher Kojzar   Let me start by just naming what I am when I go out in public — a man writing something into a book, who ...

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