Table of Contents
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
POETRY
Dmitri Derodel, Spanglish
Day Heisinger-Nixon, Mechanisms of Blue
Sydney Jin Choi, Like All the Red Things We Say to Describe Blood but Blood Itself
mai c. doan, late summer 2020
Ashia Ajani, porch
Sreshtha Sen, Masculine Sonnet
Spencer Williams, Elegy
SA Smythe, sustaining // remnants of their girlhood
Golden, I KNOW MY WEDDING DAY WILL BE A CORONATION & A FUNERAL TOO and IF I WAS BEING HONEST
Dujie Tahat, EVERY BALIKBAYAN IS IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER FOR MY MOTHER
FICTION
Elinam Agbo, The Liar’s Tongue
Johanna Dong, A Stroke of Fever
K-Ming Chang, Chinese Drama
Diana Veiga, Starspella
NONFICTION
Xavier John Richardson, Happy Thirtieth Anniversary New Jack City
Joe Hughes III, The Death of Oscar Proud as the Black Family Patriarch
VISUAL ART
Allana Clarke
Meh Muddah Teach Me
Yet Here We Were
Untitled Self Portrait 1
Untitled Self Portrait 2
Tommy Kha
Tree (Grandma Sleeping), Arlington
Assembly (I), Greenpoint – featured on current page
Yellow Sand (Vincent)
South Mandarin (Steve Yee)
Construction (New Lins Chinese)
Installation of Guise Like Me
Installation of Still Portraits and Self Lives
Construction (No1 Color)
Malcolm Peacock
Antoine
Maliyah
Essex and Dennis
D’Angelo
