Lisa Mecham
While men get war or office work, women
must carve out space for unhappiness
at home, in carpools, on playground benches. […]
November 2017
Alan C Pelaez Lopez
before the crossing1 our family could understand the whispers of the water2. we bathed our cuerpos morenos as if we we were holy […]
Lucy Wainger
Their voices harden under spotlight
& the audience’s gaze,
their costumes tight as bodies. […]
Khalid Abu Dawas
i will
tell them the way your curls
like smoke
wrap around the sides of a bed […]
Dorsey Craft
Just before Christmas, my father’s intestines bloomed,
emerged pink from inside eroded stitches, […]
Ronnie Festok
We move like water:
a riptide of fragrant vagabonds
fallen fool to Earth’s promise […]
R. Cassandra Bruner
I wanted to joke about Moses loving god
having seen only his backside,
but friend, it’s too early for sacrilege.
Instead, let’s talk about whores. […]