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Naming, by Caroline M. Mar
Blank sky: too simple. You are window-streaked, edged in god’s-eye-white. I can see where you took a breath, where you repeated yourself....


Thorn Tree, by Jo Y. Hwangbo
Jo Y. Hwangbo is a poet and copywriter based in New York. As a deep lover of raw imagery, she aspires her work to encompass an...


Shamrocks at Our Aunties' Funerals, by Jo Y. Hwangbo
Jo Y. Hwangbo is a poet and copywriter based in New York. As a deep lover of raw imagery, she aspires her work to encompass an...


Sangiving / THaNGks'giviNG/, by Patricia Coral
Mi abuela teaches my brother la brujería de la cocina. I read a novella on the kitchen table. Calderos and spoons clashing, sofrito...


"I'll Just Have to Make My Own," an Interview with Ashleigh Brady and Juliette Bazurto
I had the pleasure of speaking with Ashleigh Brady, a young visual artist at the end of her career at Dartmouth College. I asked her...


"What It Means to Be Writing Our Stories," an Interview with Tsering Wangmo and Watson Dill
On April 19, 2021, I interviewed Tsering Wangmo, an English professor at Villanova University. She grew up as a Tibetan refugee, before...


“I Couldn’t Possibly,” Maddy Heck Reviews Carmen Maria Machado's "Eight Bites"
“Eight Bites,” a short story from Carmen Maria Machado’s award-winning 2017 collection Her Body and Other Parties, spins a dreamlike tale...


"The Bone Fire," Reviewed by Megan Jackson
Fairy tale fans will recognize many aspects of György Dragomán’s new novel The Bone Fire: a young, newly orphaned protagonist, a witch...


"Sharks in the Time of Saviors," Reviewed by Catherine Cook
In his debut novel Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn combines modern reality with the mystical majesty of Hawaii’s...


Putting It All on the Line: Tiffany Narvaez Reviews "This Is How You Lose the Time War"
Published in 2019, This is How You Lose the Time War is a science fiction, epistolary novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone that...


Postscript to "Kew Gardens," by Jaden Cahoon
From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves halfway up and...


Run, by Donovan Hill
Fifteen-year-old Emma Wilson coughed as she breathed in the harsh winter air of New York City. Ouch, she thought as she continued down...


Changes, by Morgan Hill
Everything looks the same, but it feels different this time. It’s morning and it’s warm. Too warm for this time of day. Or maybe it’s...


Timothy Krall Reviews Cinxin Liu's "Sea of Dreams"
The graphic novel Sea of Dreams by Cixin Liu, one of China’s most celebrated science-fiction writers, is a remarkably quick read for a...


Julia Reidy on Brenda Shaughnessy's "The Octopus Museum"
Brenda Shaughnessy’s apocalyptic poetry in her fifth collection, The Octopus Museum, explores present-day humanity amidst a post-climate...


Toward a Proclaimed Destiny: Jackie Solomon Reviews "Black Sun"
Rebecca Roanhorse's prolific writing has won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards as well as the 2018 Astounding Award for Best New Writer....


War Looms as My Brother Plays the Piano, by Lydia McFarlane
Sour notes and my sister’s soft scolds I used to dread such things. Now, their noises furrow beneath my ribs, leaving emptiness in their...


Mummies in the Bedroom, by Cindy Rene
. . . Then I walked right by it. Walking to somewhere I don’t remember, I caught the sun on the wall, enraptured by the light cascading...


Two Poems by Arman Salem: Co-Working Space at the Flatiron We and Stakes Pin Toes to Ground
Co-Working Space at the Flatiron We I like narrow homes, sprouting, with a person or two spread between. Four walls, and, for vanity's...


The Clock Is Ticking, by Kashae Garland
I am a Black body, well maybe body is giving my life too much value. I am Black, part of the Blacks, I mean that is what I am called...
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