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Featured Artist: Grant Worth

24 Jan 2016
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Grant Worth “Hele, Wikiwiki”, 2013. Polaroid Type 600 Print, 4.5″ x 3.5″   “Laelaps and the Fox”, 2009. Polaroid Type 600 Print, 4.5″ x 3.5″   “Leo and Four Angels”, 2010. Digitally Obscured Polaroid Type 600 Print , 4.5″ x 3.5″ “Cesium of the Sea”, 2013. Polaroid Type 600 Print, 4.5″ x 3.5″

Poems by Khadijah Queen

24 Jan 2016
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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. Flashes of jet on the jay’s face, its tail, white on azure, such a serious flight, in my sunstroked eyes make a faded photograph I double-expose, which reminds me I left a hair tie in your bucket seat. But I’m alone at this cabin. The floor’s wood grain so old it snags my good socks. What would I do barefoot? Tire my legs out & splinter, trying to run from soft creatures.   Miniature Odes [Black Tears]: One fell from a chandelier, lacquered, catching sun. Inelegant, cartoonish eyes in onyx relief, diminished relative to cavernous space [Lambrechts]: You only get one window in this scratch-off game—patchwork graphic wood. What seems like seeping approximates in revelation, an allowance of the eye—feathering practice, no dancing [O collagist]: O montage maker of scenes ancient & modern & profane, O superimposer of meaninglessness upon the suffering voiceless in the gloss of...
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Poems by Roberto Montes

24 Jan 2016
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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 a natural phenomenon   if you love them enough They’ll collect    your outstretched arm   is a branch to them   Do you care   your potential is right here   I agree WHOLEHEATEDLY  you can discover a better orgasm   means the same    Around 3,153/week   Sloping downward    when leaving any speeding thing they tell you       bring your knees in   Hold on to your knees        they say    can do you that for me   will you do that for me         of course   in the air it’s all the same        You slide comfortably in  There you are (no subject) – Take my advice I can make you a good time bachelor My sister had a problem I couldn’t stop her from solving My curl fell like a child My feet reduced or grew in size depending Where they were Who they supported One promising method was...
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BOOK REVIEW: That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, by Elisabeth Sherman

19 Jan 2016
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  That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, by David Shields and Samantha Matthews Reviewed by Elisabeth Sherman   As a young child, actress Samantha Matthews was the victim of sexual abuse. Her story is a familiar one. Abuse and assault are common themes in the lives of too many women—according to a National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 1.9 million were raped in 2011. But how many are given the opportunity to publicly reshape that traumatizing narrative on their own terms, in their words? As an adult, Matthews dubbed Italian porn films into English. Her cousin, the author David Shields, thought her work was ripe for a documentary. Though Matthews gathered footage, the film never came together, so Shields suggested they work on building a written narrative. Over many months of emails, Skype sessions, and texting, Shields compiled enough material for That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, the story of Matthews’s sexual history in her own words and voice, edited by her cousin. Taking the form of an extended monologue, That Thing You Do With Your Mouth is a path toward healing: “Having the stories and the self-analysis on the page rather than just having it swirling around...
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NONFICTION: You Write What You Read by Victoria Cho

08 Jan 2016
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Apogee Fiction Reader Victoria Cho has written a stunning piece, published this week on Luna Luna. Read an excerpt below. You can find the whole essay here. I didn’t consciously make my protagonists white when I began to write fiction. There were times I swore I didn’t think about my characters’ races. But really, they were white. Even when I claimed they were utter inventions of my imagination, removed from a context of race, I re-read my stories now and see how they really weren’t anything else. They were all cut from the same cloth. I wrote about a white man losing his daughter and a white boy wanting to be a cowboy. I had a white man tell his sister he was joining the army, a white man walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, and a white man recover from a nervous breakdown in an insane asylum. And then, I wrote white women. A white teen fought with her best friend, and a white woman ran away from home. A white girl befriended a white homeless woman. I am female and Asian-American. My parents emigrated from Korea in the Seventies. (I don’t ask them for the exact year because I...
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APOGEE ISSUE 06

21 Dec 2015
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Fiction a wig by Kiik Araki Kawaguchi Rebuke the Wind by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Tommy on the Bus by Norman Antonio Zelaya First Snow by Gemini Wahhaj Poetry Argumentum ad infinitem by Chase Berggrun Fermented Fruit Poem by Walter Ancarrow Soon Mus Come by Soyini Ayanna Forde Portrait of my Mother as Mystique from X-Men by Michelle Lin Two poems by Nina Puro Guatavita, La Dorada by Jennifer Tamayo I still cannot dress attractively without feeling that I am endangering myself by Cathy Linh Che North by the Taiwan Strait: One Nation, Two Systems by Karen An-Hwei Lee River by Leila Ortiz Torch Song by Derrick Austin Wallpapers or Every Time I Touch My Phone by Tyler Kline Nonfiction Nice Girl and Small Man by Victoria Brown The Rotting of the Sun by Chido Muchemwa The Heritage Room by Jerald Walker Things My Grandmother will Never Say by Tinghui Zhang Visual Artists Xaviera Simmons (Cover Art) Kaitlin Pomerantz Clemence Vazard Christian Newby Imran Perretta Kapwani Kiwanga Lizzie Gill Stacey Tyrell Stina Puotinen  

Apogee is Hiring

17 Dec 2015
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Want to join a team of socially engaged, highly motivated artists and writers?  We are looking to fill two very important roles, Events Programmer and Promotions Manager. Please read the role descriptions (posted below) and if this sounds like something you’d love to do, send us your resume! EVENTS PROGRAMMER The role of the Events Coordinator is to maintain quarterly calendar of and oversee all Apogee events, including open mics, featured readings, staff readings, launch parties, and annual benefit. Draft event night-of timeline, secure (or helps to secure) venue, stay in contact with venue and readers, staff events, assure A/V setup and refreshments (if applicable). Run or delegate running of events. Collaborate with Executive Editor on budgets for events. Collaborate with Promotions Manager for publicizing events. If you are interested in being considered for the position, please email editors@apogeejournal.org by January 7th, 2016 with the following items: *A Resume or CV * A cover letter that answers the following questions:     *What do you believe makes a literary event successful?     * What previous experience can you bring to this position?     *Are you familiar with the mission of Apogee Journal? Why are you interested in working with us? PROMOTIONS...
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