Chiffon Thomas, Case.

  untitled #3 (exhaustion is the metaphor) Mimi Tempestt   around 8:46 every morning, i sit at my balcony and smoke cigarettes waiting for my classes to begin. this thing that i think i do. these words. this act of poeming has always been the rejection of the policing of my mind. i am an […]

  Two Poems Joselia Rebekah Hughes   EATING AT ANOTHER TABLE BLACK_SPACE’D (#5 BORON) EATING AT ANOTHER TABLE (#4 BERYLLIUM)

  Say I’m Sorry Say I Love You Nicole Zhao   2014 I didn’t tell my parents where I had gone because I knew that, in my household, it was wiser to invite forgiveness than to ask for permission. When I got to our home in Elmhurst, Queens, Papa laid out his grocery hauls of […]

Jenna Gribbon, What Now. Jenna Gribbon, The Artist Eroticized (Devan).

  Tropicália Ananda Lima “I’m only interested in what is not mine.” —Oswaldo de Andrade, “The Cannibalist Manifesto,” 1928 “Fred, what we want is, I think, what everyone wants, and what you and your viewers have—civilization. […] We want to be civilized.” —Brain Gremlin, Gremlins II: The New Batch, 1990   Saturday, August 19 – […]

  Nagladlad antmen pimentel mendoza   I wake into a dawn when Ate can tell us about justice. When I slow to breath, I deduct all units, detectives, and agents. In the evenings, Ipardon my ungodly selves. Hustisya para kayganda, death to empire. an amerikano sits in fatigues and clutches four coins close to the […]

  Lean Economy Sonnet Ina Cariño   I pop tins of the greasiest luncheon meat open, slather my chin with animal salt: asymmetrical to the story of that soldier whose pinky fingers were cut off in the war. want versus want. real love is when you loot a crate of lard-filled cans, throw it into […]

  Letter from the Editor   Dear Reader, If you’re here, following along with these words on a screen, congratulations. You’ve survived, and you are still in the business of doing so, tough as it may be. You’ve made it through a year more bizarre and devastating than most (which is saying something, considering the […]

  Table of Contents LETTER FROM THE EDITOR POETRY antmen pimentel mendoza, Nagladlad Bryan Byrdlong, Still Life: ˈblæknəs and White Zombie t. liem, In Response to Feeling Alone Hari Alluri, Major Arcana XIII: Kamatayan Was Exactly Correct Mihee Kim, until the meteor makes a shadow over home Ina Cariño, Lean Economy Sonnet Mimi Tempestt, untitled […]