Poetry by Shabnam Piryaei
there is no separate survival
Perigee
Editor’s Toolkit For Resistance and Resilience
We at Apogee, like most of our community, are deeply troubled by this week’s election. We sense the resentment and bigotry targeted at so many in our community, and we fear the violence that this election represents and inspires. So many who are driven by oppressive views feel emboldened by this election.
Poetry by Alana Folsom
Another Story of the Eye
What the Body Keeps: An Interview with Nikki Wallschlaeger
Nikki Wallschlaeger talks with Apogee Journal Poetry Co-Editor, Muriel Leung about her poem, “This Body Keeps the Key,” which appears in Issue 07 of the journal.
Poetry by Lara Mimosa Montes
from The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, October 2016)
Poetry by Seann Weir
“you will beg them to teach you how to pray“
CALL FOR WORK: Respond to #NoDAPL
The ongoing struggles of the Standing Rock Sioux community and the multitudinous tribes that have joined in protest in North Dakota has inspired Apogee Journal to facilitate and curate a folio about dispossession, resistance to dispossession, erasure, alienation and other forms of state-sanctioned violence against indigenous peoples.
Nonfiction by Janelle Fine
“When you bought your first binder-standing in front of the mirror did you also cry?”
Poetry by Jessica Morey-Collins
“It’s okay that you are afraid. It’s okay that you are afraid. It’s okay that you are afraid.”
Poetry by Monique Quintana
“we smile at the scissor slits in our face.”