Tiona Nekkia McClodden, KILO | Iba se 99, Film Still #2 (2015)

  Slow Coup (for ancient music) Imani Elizabeth Jackson   Amiri, _____________, perhaps it’d have been nothing, (as it has been for some time now The main thing lately I’ve been against is death,   Sometimes still, I fall into    feeling a love for you as casual as communism     futured as it could […]

  The New Normals Victoria Brown   Leniency When, after twenty-seven years, my family left Brooklyn for Orlando, my New York friends had one of three responses: Are you crazy? Florida? What about hurricanes? We weren’t crazy. I’d been offered the rare tenure-track position teaching creative writing at a small liberal arts college. Florida stayed […]

Sheila Pree Bright, Suburbia Untitled 12

  horror film in four parts Fullamusu Bangura   1. i only see emmett till in two-second bursts. first compulsion, second horror. two parts of one sum. in fourth grade, in the black wax museum, amid creaky slave ship floorboards, guttural moans, and evaporated sweat, i half expected to see him there. a clay molded […]

  Toy Sand Avi Prager   I am toy sand Heart Mighty Pattern Playing- stopping, up to no good I am sad hand grasp breath, breathe- grabbing homestead heartlines I am spy, also Pilot Flying Dancing Creature Machinery Kibbutznik I am bug home trail Giving the lighted night sky a zigzag jackknifing I am iced jaw […]

  .motherpoem td { padding: 0px !important; } Two Poems Aya Satoh   THERE IS NO MOTHER TONGUE ONLY A POWER TAKEOVER after Don Mee Choi The poet said: I speak as a radical tongue The poet said: This English is not mine The poet said: My tongue is a site of colonization The poet […]

  Letter from the Editor   Dear Reader,  If you’re reading this, you too have survived. You’ve persisted in the face of a cruelly indifferent world. Our marginalized bodies continue to be regulated and policed, subject to danger and trauma: the smallest of migrant children bodies are detained, transferred, caged, and neglected to death; in […]

  Table of Contents LETTER FROM THE EDITOR POETRY Aya Satoh, Two Poems Avi Prager, Toy Sand Fullamusu Bangura, horror film in four parts Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Slow Coup (for ancient music) Justin A. Davis, Two Poems Sophia Lara, Am I Writing Stand Up Shit Now? Em Rose, Subscript shelley feller, Two Poems Kaja Rae […]