Two Poems By Shal Nirvanus From “i 3 poems“ i being in this world is… if you ever feel like the extra person in the room and try joining the conversation it will be similar to saying “pound it” without presenting your fist to anyone at all they will be afraid to […]
Featured Artist: Eliza Swann “A Bright Hand in Darkness”, 2014. HD Video Still, 6:16 from Gently Ai Goes Home “A Bright Hand in Darkness”, 2014. HD Video Still, 6:16, “Light is the left hand of darkness…” “A Bright Hand in Darkness”, 2014. HD Video Still, 6:16, The Blizzard “A Bright […]
Benton, Revisited By Koa Beck Benton had been named for the uncle he’d never met. Growing up there’d only been one photo of him, the uncle: a single ghostly face in the oval frame where the two walls met in the dining room, removed and set away from the mantel of family portraits […]
Dispatch By Tsitsi Jaji When last in dooryards jacarandas bloomed. Hanzi? The heart is in thanks to the cat. Kutenda kwakitsi kuri mumwoyo. Shredded? Only in the privacy of its own box. “Above all, strive for a room of your own,” said Mr. Jabavu. Or a library reading room. Gloved hands are rare, […]
Featured Artist: Devin Kenny “Untitled/Clefa”, 2013. Performance with Audio: A performative reinterpretation of the short-lived meme, Trayvoning (named after Trayvon Martin), which circulated through a variety of message boards and social networks. Here the artist collapses forward, and the ensuing explosion of Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea droplets proliferate. The duration of the […]
Two Poems By Roberto Montes (no subject) – Learn the skills for your DREAM job sleeping is free in some habitats Keep a dream journal leave it behind My sister taught me this inexpensive trick they don’t want you to know It’s all your fault and cicadas are not […]
Two Poems By Khadijah Queen ___________________ the usual old shoe still lifes in October, birds again I’m en plein air Victorian patio-style when on the roof’s right corner, a thuggish blue jay lands heavily on tarred shingles & departs after a feral glance my way. Lighter, sparrows inch closer in, moss-mouthed, plumping eaves for nesting. […]
[ nation building / women’s legal identity : the border’s apocalyptic mater-futurity: ] By José Alvergue
Two Poems By Cristiana Baik Autoconstrucción¹ My second life began with fabrication my other name plucked from a book by Auntie Kyung, in a plane ride to California from Seoul. In the breach that was the Pacific what was familiar became interpretation that always-constant point of reference: ghost-shades of adolescence toward transformation—that different […]
Featured Artist: Bayeté Ross Smith Post Racial America: At least There’s A Black President, 2013. 22” x 30 Beretta 9mm and Shotgun (from the Taking AIM series), 2010. 24″ x 32 Got The Power: Brooklyn, 2014. Sculpture Installed at BRIC Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2′ x 8′ x 11′
