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How to Get My Attention
Fiction Editor DT Schatten shares what they’re looking to publish in our Summer 2023 Online Issue. Before I get into...
Woman Now
My father can’t look at me anymore. He can’t see past the bright teal bra straps tight on my slouched...
between
Hill I live on a hill. A very steep hill. On the east bench, above campus, overlooking the neighborhood in...
Ghazal with Fruit & Absence
There are some fruits that never show up in poems. You see apples, pomegranates, & figs in poems. The forbidden...
The “Favors” We Never Asked For
I was sixteen the first time I read a book with a character with a disability like mine. Not even...
Contest Winner Spotlight: “Baby Arjun”
“Be there in half an hour.” Pari read the message from Rachel several times. After graduating from their Master of...
Ghar
I built a fort today. It was the first time in a while since I had done that, it felt...
Since They Like to Touch Hair
If you touch my hair, The skinny lady sang about it And I say: I hope my dandruff falls...
Second Person
Artist’s Statement: This piece was created in an attempt to articulate the distance created between myself and the self I present...
A Day of Attempted Destruction
This world would chew me up and spit me out if I let it It would quiet me, destroy me...
I Don’t Have Twenty Dollars for Poetry
This essay is inspired by what I thought would be a late-night tweet, which I am particularly fond of, but...
Contest Winner Spotlight: “The Poetry of A Body”
Olivia and I are on my bed, all geared up to watch porn. My laptop is between us. We split...