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Read“all dreaming as amputation” and other poems
on this shore, there is a body with an arm cut. / i fumble with the forsythia, that nudge of spring -
ReadRelated to Rhythm: Three Poems
what power is in my hands / my hands be power, be power, / my power is in what hands, my what / is power in whose hands. -
ReadProducts of a Revolution
In 1973 a black boy / was murdered on / my Mother’s birthday -
ReadLittle House in the Big Pandemic
At night, when Laura lay awake on her memory foam mattress, she listened and could not hear anything at all. -
ReadThe Long Slow Suck, the Murk and Ooze
Everything I need to hear / the slug churns out / in its stream of glitter -
ReadNight Birds
Sirens wail all night on these streets / blanketed / (as in, humiliated) / by day’s hurried departure. -
Read“if I were some body, I would call new york” and other poems
and vomit all / my happy-hour alcohol / inside that earwaxed / manhole -
Readharmer/harmed: an interactive zine
TSW Artist in Residence, Bianca Ng, creates the featured art for Issue 12: Before After -
ReadAn Origin Story
I could talk your ear off about the current state of Mexican-American literature. -
ReadI Know my Life Matters but How do I Translate That into Japanese?
My students & co-workers worry / if I return to America, I’ll catch COVID / or a bullet in my back. -
Read“This is a Body” and other poems
it is a form of mothering / to hurt yourself / rather than others -
ReadTo My Father, on the One-Year Anniversary of His Death
I am standing at the ironing board, running a hot iron over a folded and stitched-together strip of quilting cotton to make bias tape. -
Read“bastard” and other poems
anjing my mother calls you. / how dare you defy what god has given you?
