We’re thrilled to present a compilation of photography from James “dirtkics” Dickerson, our featured artist for this special issue: FLYOVER COUNTRY
i. war Jeungjo Halmoni is blessing the rain, opening her palms to graying skies and whispering as if the clouds can answer her. She kneels like a child on the ground, returning to youth in a sense of helplessness. Her words are glass swords. Please, protect him, deliver him, release him. They shatter in the […]
Present: I Hide My Stomach Present Progressive: I am hiding myself.!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!Present Perfect: I have hidden Crohn’s, and I have hidden in Crohn’s, but most of all I have hidden from Crohn’s, the name I did not want to give my body.!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!Past: I hid behind bathroom doors.!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!Past Progressive: I was hiding to keep the most vulnerable […]
It was not enough approaching the clinic, weaving thru throngs of angry white faces judging you, spitting invectives-all your readied insults a dry lump in your throat. It was not enough the ex who contributed to the teaspoon of life inside yousaid give him the baby, he’d raised it with his new girlfriend, never a […]
Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Dionne Custer Edwards, Taylor Byas, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Sean Cho A, Manuel Iris, Dennis James Sweeney, Jyotsna Sreenivasan, and many more.
K-Ming Chang’s stories vibrate with energy, lyricism, and the hysteria that comes from the crushing weight of history. As a collection of stories, Gods of Want spans generations—orbiting relationships between women, their bodies, their ancestors, and their wild environments. There is an aura of mythic simultaneity in the work as deceased ancestors, immigration trauma, environmental […]
Sumita Chakraborty’s debut poetry collection, Arrow, is a sprawling expanse of loss. Centering the story of her sister Priya, Arrow is both a testament and letter to her sibling —who died at age 24—as well as a record of the poet’s large and undefinable grief. The collection is richly inhabited by figures from mythology: a […]
