Anthologies
Umbrella category for anthologies; individual issues separated by tags
How Do You Make It Work?
I’m writing this much later than I should be, in part, because I’ve just had another birthday, and as I age, I become more reluctant to do more than one job.
To Pasture
The court had decided I was the most logical choice for the bull’s care. I was sufficiently neutral as a production assistant, and I’d already been tasked with managing him at the studio.
Excerpts from The Work Is Done When We Are Dead
We don't know. / Despite thousands of years spent / conceptualizing moralities of power, / theorizing hierarchies / or their abolition...
DEI, Bitch
Can everyone hear and see me okay? No? Oh, I was on mute, let me just ... There we go.
On Employability
"Why is it that the more transsexual I get, the more employable I feel?"
Babydogs Do Not Work/SERVICE ANIMAL
At the height of the pandemic, I became a new kind of laborer: a student-teacher, a strange, two-faced role.
Superstition Sonnet
Teri Vela’s “Superstition Sonnet” invites readers to dispense with everything they think they know about the sonnet. It is not the rules of a form, but the warp and weft of intergenerational violence and prevailing softness that tethers these intricate lines together into a powerful reverse origin story.
“Object Permanence” and Other Poems
In her dazzling suite of text poems, image poems, and art, Tina Lentz-McMillan designates the negative space in every page as an intimate collaborator in her story. Her speaker is an un-silenced witness: of obsession, desire, and the ache of longing—and of what (and who) lives on even in the liminal territory of erasure.
tropikal teknologies
Noelle’s imaginative, multi-layered piece grapples with inherited technologies, nonlinear logic, and finding intergenerational healing through the collective.
La-Pa-La
Savannah Bowen’s La-Pa-La tells the story of two young siblings living in Haiti—one of whom must grapple with the mysterious disappearance of the other. As the surreal begins to eclipse the real, a beautiful unraveling takes hold, leaving readers to wonder whether love may be the only certainty in this or any universe.
