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 #3 (exhaustion is the metaphor)
Joselia Rebekah Hughes, EATING AT ANOTHER TABLE BLACK_SPACE’D (#5 BORON) and EATING AT ANOTHER TABLE (#4 BERYLLIUM)
Kimberly Alidio, Occult Docupoesis #1 and Pangasinan Chora
Yesenia Montilla, Gut Gravity
Jade Cho, Twelve Chinese Confessions, 1963
DeShara Suggs-Joe, The Strength of U and M A S H
blkcowrie, thots

FICTION

Karen Gu, TWENTY-FOUR KARAT
Timothy Moore, Kiki is Falling Down the Stairs
Aisha West, Hometraining
Ananda Lima, Tropicália

NONFICTION

Suiyi Tang, Yellow Girls & The Deafening Silence
Nicole Zhao, Say I’m Sorry Say I Love You
Maryam Kazeem, The Dancer

VISUAL ART

Chiffon Thomas
Case
Precarity of a Person
LaKela Brown
Horizontal Composition with Gold Teeth and Ropes #1
Still Life with Doorknocker Earrings With Fourteen Gold
Jenna Gribbon
What Now
The Artist Eroticized (Devan)
Chanell Stone
Sheet and Aloe
Court Mirages
In Search of a Certain Eden
Chantal Feitosa
American Dream Girl / Unrequited
Loving Incognegro
Brown Bag Lunch (Ham’s Redemption)
Dannielle Bowman
Alpha Kappa Alpha – featured on current page
Reunion Shoes (Texas I)
Kelly Taylor Mitchell
Bathing in Lake Drummond
Offerings 2


Visual Art: Dannielle Bowman, Alpha Kappa Alpha.