Blood Moon Ghazal Janine Mogannam from the RAWI conference, Bdeóta Othúŋwe/Gakaabikaang/Minneapolis, October 2023 We rise tonight under a bloody hunter’s moon, Poets singing sorrows to a full and lusty moon. I’ve been staring at my phone all afternoon. When I glance up, there it is. The blood of Gaza, painting the face of […]
Table of Contents LETTER FROM THE EDITOR POETRY Janine Mogannam, Blood Moon Ghazal Elise Thi Tran, Two Poems Tina Zafreen Alam, ordinary legacies Ezza Ahmed, In Place of “God” [the river] Estella Burque, Memories of a Broken Clock River 瑩瑩 Dandelion, Our History Is Already Written (II): Chinatown (2019) Ola Alrantisi, Disappeared for two […]
From 99 Problems Finding the 1 G’Ra Asim 99. Why should anyone take anything my father has to say about anti-black racism seriously if he has a white wife? On its face, it’s a reasonable if perhaps dogmatic question. The race of a given black person’s romantic partner is not a perfectly reliable […]
Unlearning War Excerpt from A Woman is a School Céline Semaan Preface Every chapter of A Woman is a School begins with a cassette tape, as this is how we communicated with our family in Lebanon when we were displaced during the war from 1975 to 1995. Displaced families sent cassette tapes back […]
Big Belly Christina Cooke A birthday party tastes like pop rocks: Sweet, thrilling, brimming with surprises. School tastes like a store-made tuna sandwich: Cold and bland, but you eat it anyway because it has all the nourishment you need. Easter tastes like bun and cheese: Salty and sweet, cloying yet comforting, but if […]
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Contributors iman adam is a Mombasa-born queer and trans writer. They are currently pursuing an MFA at Rutgers-Newark, where they write about the ocean, exile, and (great-)grandmothers. Ezza Ahmed is an educator and poet based in NYC. Her poetry is concerned with diaspora, memory, and water (rivers, creeks, lakes, etc.). When she isn’t writing, she […]
Kiah Celeste Kiah Celeste, Bum 81, 2022, 81 Fluorescent Light tubes, forklift wheel, 20H x 90W x 20D inches, Photo DOCUMENT Kiah Celeste, Forest Cloud, 2024, Wood, Fabric, inner tube, mortar, 60H x 60W x 11D inches, Photo Chad Crews
Jordany Genao Jordany Genao, Ilewei de platano, banana flower 2023 Ceramic, decal, glaze, banana silk thread, dehydrated bananas, page from Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean, glass 66 x 10 x 8 inches (banana flower) Jordany Genao, elements, elementos, apuxii’no 2023 Ceramic, glaze, cassava powder, tapioca pearls, decal, mesh, rayon […]
Vincent Chong Vincent Chong, self portrait with peonies, 2023, Pastel on paper, 25.5 x 19.5 inches Vincent Chong, Mitchell & Diesel, 2024, Watercolor on paper, 11 x 15 inches
