Spotlight Issue: Seed

ON THE USES OF ANOTHER GRIEF AS SKIN, OR WHAT TO DO WHEN WELL-MEANING WHITE QUEERS WANT TO WEAR YOUR

I didn’t recognize my face in the mirror today I did not know my name Instead a white woman grafts my tongue onto hers Caging the meat of...

ODE TO MY FORBIDDEN SELF by Isabella Rosario

To melodrama, to snot crying over old films, to sticking pill capsules beneath my tongue and not swallowing. Ode to the strange satisfact...

THE NAME OF THE POEM IS "DISCOVERY" by Deneka Thomas

Tell the poem to touch itself at night. Tell the poem to hand pick the stars scattered between its valleys And bring the torrent rain. Te...

IMPOSSIBLE IN ENGLISH by Eli Tareq Lynch

the sound is high and loud pitched. i am the sound. the sound belongs to the speakers. i am not the speaker. my butt on the speaker, ...

TOA by Stephen Garcia

Your grandmother told you That during times of war your people of Samoa would sing songs to their warriors before entering battle Tala an...

SYMPOSIUM FOR THE PALESTINIAN/QUEER BODY by George Abraham

Click me. What does the title, “Emerging poet,” mean to you? The title of emerging poet is a bit of a double edged sword. On one hand, I ...

MY DYKE BLOOD IS BITTER by Khaya Osborne

and what other flavors can one expect from something so forbidden, even the Lord hesitated to call it fruit? remember when you kissed the...

TEACHING A MUTHAFUCKA HOW TO TALK TO GOD by Ally Ang

i turn you into liquid with one touch. in our photographs, i am just out of frame a blurred figure haunting the margins in bloom. get on ...

I GUESS I'M GREEDY LIKE THAT by Alystair Augustin

I want a swatch the color of trying to nap on the beach in August, sandwiches wedged between bottles in the cooler sand on the blanket ...

HOW TO BECOME THE MOON by Jake Skeets

He enters you, hide him, a silver dollar beneath your pillow, in a pawn shop, lodged in your throat. Your birthmark will remind him of br...

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