Arts & Culture
-
An excerpt from The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom
eraser: She found it in the corner. She picked it up. Brought it close. This happened at a time when her head was unusually...
-
3 poems by Valerie Bandura
Vagina and Cross-Cocks For their flag, ……….a sliced pair of white boxers, and on it, ………………………………………………………………in marmalade, the diamond shape of a vagina...
-
2 poems by Geffrey Davis
Unfledged What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? — Robert Hayden Weekends too my father...
-
3 poems by Niki Herd
Conjure Season Last night another woman died at the hands of a lover boy friend husband ex take your pick & all the mouths...
-
3 poems by Trish Salah
notes toward dropping out (March 1995) This is where I ceased— Not to be too obvious, or in mutation, or distilled, transmogrification ...
-
Two Poems by Gala Mukomolova
By Gala Mukmolova Girl-talk * I’ve really been working on my orgasmic meditation, my ex tells me. If the instructor touches my clit in...
-
4 poems by Sonya Renee
A Poem For The Girl Who Solicited Money To Get To the National Poetry Slam (I assume by plane) Because ”I am only 20...
-
3 poems by Sara Renee Marshall
from THE LANDSCAPES WERE IN MY ARMS 1 The history of industry tells me more than this archive of confession. My legs are forgotten...
-
Discourses of Disaster and How does it feel to be alive?
I’ve been thinking a lot about representation and competition among trans folks. I’ve been testing out joy as the most vulnerable human experience. Love, I...
-
“Operation Space Surgery” by Gabriele Gervickaite
Operation Space Surgery “I think of my body – wires and screws in it, and marks of scalpel on my skin. My studio is a...
-
“Writing Under Siege” by Shakeema Smalls
Today, you went to the grocery store where you inquired about a job. You’re on your last $25. Strangely, after suddenly finding yourself unemployed, you...
-
A Review of Bushra Rehman’s “Corona”
“I am not that kind of an Indian,” says Razia Mirza, thus uttering all that can and needs to be said. In Bushra Rehman’s new...
-
3 poems by Lilith Latini
Fact of a Flat Tire’s rim against rubber against pavement. Car hunched over its warped wheel, and nothing to do but lift the thing...
-
3 poems by Jordan Rice
Tresses My father rings our apple trees with his own urine, says the scent will scare off starving deer which strip his low...
-
Poem Suite: Things
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, four poets consider...
-
Fiction Feature: CORONA by Bushra Rehman
Corona (and I’m not talking about the beer) Corona, Queens 1983 Corona, and I’m not talking about the beer. I’m talking about a little village...
-
3 poems by Meg Wade
The Skinning House There’s howling in the woods out back. ………………………..The creepy light at the bottom of the pool. ………………………..All my fucking...
-
Fiction Flash: Lyssa in Limbo
By Michelle Auerbach (Excerpt from The Third Kind of Horse) I stared hard at Melody, at the blonde tips of her hair and I knew,...
