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The Mother Searches For Her Own Story

By: Mary McMyne

11 Nov 2019

You’re the girl with the basket full of bread and cream, who wandered somehow into this life.

Poetry

Syndrome

By: Ugonna-Ora Owoh

11 Nov 2019

your spongy tongue | as political as begging the world to drown

Poetry

The Bandit King

By: Kelly Stewart

28 Oct 2019

crest the hill on my courser black as bee stripes / with honey in my eyes.

Poetry

Follow You

By: Amy H. Robinson

21 Oct 2019

It had been awhile since Bridget had feasted

Poetry

Heaven is Expensive

By: Ruben Reyes Jr.

14 Oct 2019

atol de elote, pho, boba, pupusas / Taco Tuesday tacos, one dollar Spam musubi

Poetry

Those Who Tell The Stories

By: Davian Aw

7 Oct 2019

the myriad flavours of ancient childhoods burst on our tongues in virtual experience

Poetry

A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century

By: Woody Dismukes

30 Sep 2019

is there not power in a man who resists long after his final breath has slowed?

Poetry

The Color of the Mule

By: Woody Dismukes

30 Sep 2019

sat backwards, my rider not knowing the difference

Poetry

movement

By: Jarid Arraes

30 Sep 2019

the sky doesn't know her reasons

Poetry

The Woods

By: August Huerta

16 Sep 2019

I wasn’t made at all. Out of the silence I was blurted out.