by Rogelio Juárez
I could talk your ear off about the current state of Mexican-American literature. I spent the first half of my life in public schools (g... Read More.
by Michael Frazier
My students & co-workers worry if I return to America, I’ll catch COVIDor a bullet in my back. I runalong the Asano river &... Read More.
by C.A. Schaefer
for E
Dust remembers what we try to forget, preserves the hidden, and keeps evidence in wait. Dust is composed of dried peas knocked dow... Read More.
Waterloo
“The opposite of rape is understanding” Duplex, Jericho Brown
i begin as a foreign body.
it is a form of mothering to hurt yourself rather than oth... Read More.
by Zoe Fenson
Today is June 30, 2020. One year to the day since we lost you. I am standing at the ironing board, running a hot iron over a folded and stitched... Read More.
bastard
anjing my mother calls you.how dare you defy what god has given you?
i see what she means. i see your weteyes, mouth hung open, dry panting. you
are ... Read More.
by Marianne Manzler
The first time I watched you kill a fish, you were methodical and emotionless, striking it in one blow. We stood in the kitchen, wea... Read More.
by Vanmayi Shetty
What makes a country great? Surely the answer doesn’t lie in vast tracts of forest land that have been converted into concrete megastr... Read More.
by Lauren Krauze
April 10, 2020
Four weeks. Four weeks and still the virus. Things that were once normal now seem absurd.
Early one morning ... Read More.
by Dayna Cobarrubias
“I need you to do something for me,” you said as you sat across from me in the locker room. I stared back at you and it was like I ... Read More.
Fruit of the Earth
I have wasted these curses on minor disappointments.
Screwed up in brown paper, rattling in a tin cup,little hollow white thi... Read More.
by Lisa Chen
1. The true cost of dying lies beyond the sick. It buries itself in the people who try to love the sick. There are more obvious costs like ... Read More.
by Nnadi Samuel
Casualties
retracing frowns is how we forego boundaries, to chase greener passports.on the counter, brittle flesh sit beside waste bi... Read More.
White Vulture
When we raise our hands now, the air is flushwith vacancies. Shapelessness cuts with jagged edges,And we are waiting for something to hol... Read More.