Rumsfeld Ghazal Asnia Asim (“There are known knowns — there are things we know we know,” Rumsfeld said in February 2002, when asked for evidence that Saddam Hussein tried to supply weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. — The Washington Post)   he said, there are known knowns and there are things we […]

  Letter from the Editor   Dear Reader, I write to you in December. As the weather moves from unseasonably warm to just-south-of-pleasantly-cold (a North Carolina classic), my usually blue end-of-semester mood is buoyed by one unusual phenomenon–the 2022 World Cup, delayed in an attempt to avoid the summer heat in Qatar. I’ve been a […]

  Table of Contents LETTER FROM THE EDITOR POETRY Asnia Asim, Rumsfeld Ghazal Noah Arhm Choi, They Say It’s Better to Have Loved and Lost Than to Never Have Loved at All Naieka Raj, from edentata Joshua Aiken, Two Poems Kyle Seamus Brosnihan, N I N O Y  A Q U I N O Gerardo […]

Sydney Vernon SYDNEY VERNON, Pleasure , 2021, Oil, acrylic, pastel, oil pastel, colored pencil, charcoal, graphite, wood block ink on wood, 72 x 36 inches & Principle , 2021, Oil, watercolor, pastel, graphite, photo transfer, wood block ink on wood, 72 x 36 inches.   SYDNEY VERNON, Taking Up Space, 2021, Ink, Colored pencil, and […]