Timothy Ree
I Say Now These Are The Soul
How the hell it got here, in the apartment, behind this ugly couch we're so tired of looking at—the leg. •…Profile Type: Emerging Poets Residency
Vikas K. Menon
’58 DeSoto
On graduation day, my Father posed in his first car, a machine of possibility bought for fifty bucks. America was horsepower and torque, shark…
Rio Cortez
Self Portrait in a Tanning Bed
It’s February & I am the only black girl at Future Tan Tanning Salon I laugh when I enter my…
Ricardo Hernandez
To Lorine Niedecker
Tell me: how does one do it, this trick: condensery? Careful cuts on the tongue after reading suggest surgical precision. Perhaps pres- sure. Like…andriniki mattis
each day a news headline extracts the lining of my throat
& leaves me that kind of broken that must come with a warning label before you…Aziza Barnes
HOW TO KILL A HOUSE CENTIPEDE BY SQUISHING IT BEHIND A PHOTO OF MIRIAM MAKEBA WHILE CONTEMPLATING VARIOUS ITERATIONS OF RIGOR MORTIS IN MY GENTRIFIED APARTMENT COMPLEX ON 750…
Aldrin Valdez
JEEPNEY
The other night I discovered JEEPNEY on 1st Ave and the yellow light that pulsed at me like a memory of a PAROL in that…