Arts & Culture
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Three Poems by Meredith Trede
By Meredith Trede Surviving Birds As you pack, you tell me the swans attacked during your dawn river swim. Their fierce wings...
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LGBTQ Film Feature: “U People” Fifth Anniversary Interview with Hanifah Walidah
Nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2010, U People is a music video, a documentary LGBT film, and a...
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if God can Cook / you Know I can: Pedagogy of Those Opting-Out of Oppression
By Carrie Y. T. Kholi As a poet/scholar, I’m having a difficult time labeling this piece. It feels like a tough lesson from my favorite instructors,...
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My Dollhouse, Myself: Miniature Histories
By Nicole Cooley In the Dollhouse Nursery Painted sea foam green, the nursery you arrange on the top floor of your dollhouse has enough...
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Fiction Feature: "Planets" by Kaitlyn Greenidge
By Kaitlyn Greenidge We the only girls who leave our walk. We the only girls that travel. All the other girls on our walk,...
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2 pieces by Julia Gordon
Walter Closes the Door Gently When somebody dies in this community, the people within, not knowing how else to ease the burden of grief that...
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A Matter of Time
By Amira Davis “I know you are asking today, “How long will it take?” Somebody’s asking, “How long will prejudice blind the visions of men,...
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Assata: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
by Rizvana Bradley The trial scene that concludes the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God glimpses a specific form of panoptic enclosure that has given...
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“r/evolutionary love sounds: a mixtape for Assata”
By Amina Doherty rev·o·lu·tion noun ˌre-və-ˈlü-shən 1. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system; 2. the movement...
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3 poems by Hannah Ensor
Marriage A man and a woman stretch in a courtyard. They are both very complicated. I am looking at a photograph of them. You...
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Featured Poet: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
By LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs bacche kā pōtRā bloom, the dandelion dance of Keisha’s mane. a Wave of bush. her kitchen pearls &...
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3 poems by Deborah Poe
The Mourners some, hooded, hide their faces hands inside their sleeves some, uncovered, wipe their tears, brood in fabric’s fold mourning...
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From Detailing Trauma by Arianne Zwartjes
THE ANATOMY OF TRUST OR BREAKING _____ I. HEART The pulse shudders the body at such infinitesimal levels that many of us ignore its existence....
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3 poems by Ian Ellasante
Diana and the face of the moon another night you are . turning your face ………………….. i am already gone and...
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Two Poems: "Different Pages" and "The Bee Trap"
By Kristy Webster The Bee Trap Some girls have eyes like invitations, and some girls wear glasses and scarves, walk with a whistle...
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from Narrative & Nest by Danielle Vogel
from Narrative & Nest by Danielle Vogel Toward Untraumatizing the Sentence— If anything comes through in spite of all this, it is...
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Queens Among Princesses
By Kaila Philo We spend the majority of our days primping and preening dead protein adorning our crusty scalps as if, somehow, this dead...
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Featured Poet: Aditi Rao
By Aditi Rao Dear Mr. Yadav, I too am an Indian Woman “Referring to the recent ‘Slut Walk’ held in the Capital, Mr. Lalu...
