2021 Spring Summer Issue - Editor's Note
I’m going to keep this short because I want to get out the way. I am excited for this issue—our first issue after a year and a half...
"Bittersweet Escape: Reading Joy Priest’s Horsepower"
Horsepower by Joy Priest Reviewed by jon jon moore Alone, Black language cannot stop the bullet, raise the dead, or end this world. And,...
from Finished with the Peace by Rasha Abdulhadi
interrupting Siegfried Sassoon, 1917 —you can tell, can't you, hayk hatha, how the peace is the war they won. Pursuing peace has been the...
eulogy for a fallen dove by February Spikener
“Dove collides into window, leaving a white imprint of its body, a crime scene outline saying ‘Take this, the dust of me. Remember the...
Reporting From a Backyard in Oakland
when the barometer of civility intensifies in the city of babylon i pledge allegiance to my whistling kettle steeped invitation for a...
the magnolia by noor
killed. neverending, this story of that tree. bark rough. like a grandmother’s apology, open hands, soft white mouths of kittens,...
Two Poems by Arati Warrier
In Which My Mother Intervenes in My Sexual Education Your body is divine / my body is impossible. Your body is pure / ...
tiny desk concert at the end of the world by Christina Im
with an image of Mitski CHRISTINA IM is a Korean American writer and undergraduate student at Princeton University. She was a 2018 and...
Stank Face by Kweku Abimbola
Oh stank face, your origin begins with rhythm like the first ever jam session, somewhere beneath a tendrilled canopy and near brackish...
Three Poems by Gavin Yuan Gao
The Sad Siren I have a knack for making men stay for all the wrong reasons. The zeal-bitten historians. The shy classicists. Nightly,...