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,...