Shade Literary Arts

Abstract: Throughout the course of contemporary Classics studies much scholarship has been done on the triumph of Theseus in his...

after Kiki Petrosino Everything is a horcrux if you sing hard enough. I whisper the empty, I could’ve rescued myself. Not just from...

In Taiwan the rain spits on my skin. I lose the way to my grandmother’s house, eat a papaya by the side of the road, papaya in Taiyu...

there are days when a flock of starlings are my gender and i am the sky there are days when my gender speaks in history and i plead it...

In the other universe I am white, skin bandaging my body. Always I’m born a wound. Look how I gape. Look how the skin is an afterthought....

To not accept a 'no' as a 'no' is a kind of violence or for her, a kind violence. She calls me 'baby' & just like that, my name & its...

mostly i’m ashamed to have forgotten that these niggas like to dabble in me. he came and i was reckless with my magic as if it were my...

When you told me that someone else helped you bind during our time apart, I was jealous. Though you never said you wanted to do that when...

Beautiful questions for the war poem to host: Who among us could weave one ghost into another? Where find water hosted beyond the tulip’s...

Run around the neighborhood with the white kids, playing like you're all the same. Jump on the trampoline with the boys, before they...