

Fantasy of the Author as a Small Girl by Nora Hikari
In a small voice, she says: perhaps, if the things I want are small enough, and smooth enough, they will be forgotten and not taken from...


teachers of something by Tejaswini Sudhakar
my dear friend calls it serendipitous every time she runs into someone she knows on the street. i know we all live on this campus, she...


Narcissus by Nour Kamel
What did Echo do for you to hate her? The men who mimic him crawl on their bellies into your life woo and fawn and kiss your haired legs...


Two Poems by Fargo Tbakhi
PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: EMPTINESS MY HEART WHEN IT IS SUFFUSED WITH ENVYPOISON LEGISLATURES THE SUN SHINING OUT OF OUR MOUTHS 401KS OF...


Two Poems by Jaz Sufi
Switchback mara once took this road & her car broke down in the middle of a night / like tonight / but i don't care, i take the road too...


how we survived: 爺爺’s pantoum (ii) by River 瑩瑩 Dandelion
we wore watermelon husks to hide lost cargo floating east to hong kong water lilies & crickets our last witness we departed the cattailed...


A Sketch Through Longing by Keisha Cassel
A man on a bus brushes his hair from the crown and then out. Recreating the ocean tide. I do as anyone would; when presented with the...


a fishing story. by Mia S. Willis
in this one, i am a sheepshead; a freak of nature and hard to hold onto. in this one, you cut open my stomach. gasp when you find blood...


2022 Forthcoming Poetry Books by Queer People of Color
Full-length and chapbooks are included in this list. Last updated: 5/27/2022 Acre Books In Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking by C.T....


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...
