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Read“Other Names You Have Used Since Birth” • A 14-Year-Old Boy Visiting California
a mouth began / in the south east corner / of the continent where / a tribe of teeth / once shared rice -
ReadNegotiation
I carry a large box to the post office on Sixth Street making my way up the few stairs. -
Read“for brown girls who once considered themselves” and other poems
in 2029, i wake up next to a stranger. / the word husband for us is like paprika — / it adds color. -
ReadActionable Storytelling
What exactly are the breaking points that force us to seek a fresh point of reference, to steer ourselves in the collective direction of healing? -
ReadEditor’s Note
How do we encourage critical thought around stories that may have once seemed heroic, but are actually harmful? How do we build new stories, new ways of living, together? -
ReadQueer is a Verb
In 2007, I had just freshly graduated from high school. I was a year ahead of my class and had put in the extra work due to acute boredom -
ReadFuel Crisis
“The car is hemorrhaging fuel,” I told Dad over the phone as we approached Grandma and Grandpa’s place. -
ReadPicture Me Rollin’
For three years, I boarded a bus in West Pullman, then transferred to the Red Line train to attend Chicago’s Roosevelt University. -
ReadIs this your first time?
There are things you can’t ask at the clinic. Among your prescribed list of acceptable questions: Where is the bathroom? -
ReadStill Life/Wallpaper: Paintings
Since the end of the Cambodian Civil War in 1975, and the horrific killing fields following the next four years, Cambodia has never recovered. -
Read“Grave Dressing” and other poems
There’s a phrase for it, the way / I’m lately loving like a river / is pressed to my door -
ReadDiamond Blanket Sky
Like all nights, this one was muggy and black. It will rain tonight, he thought as he rubbed his arthritic knee. Maybe. -
ReadWhen I Close My Eyes
my hair sways long / black streams cascade / down my back / somewhere, skies illuminate after somber rain -
ReadInheritance: A Dance
Many of the “Indians” — that’s what they call themselves and what we call them too — in our small Alaskan town live in a separate community called Saxman. -
Read[It is unseemly]
It is unseemly to blow your nose into a tablecloth. If you share a / bed with another man, keep still. If you pass a person pissing, do /not greet him.