8 minHISTORY OF PAINTINGby Brandon Shimoda When my mother was pregnant with me, she took a class on color theory. The class was at California State University...
4 minThe Black Paragraphsby Adrian Potter 1. Sometimes, we die of such blackness, after becoming a smudge on the margins. Slice right through layers of scar...
7 minOur Stories Grow in their Own Time: On (not) Writing about Trauma by Lisa D. Chavez (This was originally a talk at a panel discussion from the AWP Conference 2021, titled “Difficult Muses and Damaged...
7 minWE ARE ALL WORKING FROM HOME ANYWAYby Ploi Pirapokin I woke up on my thirty-third birthday, shaken by my surgeon at 4 a.m. “Congratulations on surviving your appendectomy!...
3 min百感交集by Jennifer Tseng Once upon a time, I floated within my mother’s sea. I’d never seen a book or a person suffering. I’d never seen...
7 minPeregrination to the Antithetical Sound of a Bird Smashing Into a Windowby Chris Moore A man working on a construction site right outside of my apartment window just had his hand crushed
8 minHauntedby Jennifer Manalili The house that sits on 4344 Marcia Court in San Diego is a fake. A phantom house.
5 minERASUREby Casandra Lopez SHIRAAAW’AXNE (I SPEAK ) It is evident that if allowed to roam at pleasure, their early extinction is inevitable
3 minOn Seventeen in Appalachiaby Rachel M. Hanson I stepped out of the house at dusk, still able to see shrub oaks thinned out for winter,
4 minA La Loro Morteby Heidi Czerwiec I’m a mushroom hunter. In order to find mushrooms, I need familiarity with what they feed on.
18 minProducing Pearl Harbor: Militourism, Memory, and Colonial Curations of Spaceby Paxon Balthazar Kalāhikiola Chang The H-1 spans from West to East O’ahu, contouring the Leeward side of the island
5 minAncestor of Fireby Aaron A. Abeyta I wish to be an ancestor of fire and how flames came to be, an ancestor of particular slants and dances of light wherein
7 minThe Voice of the Landby Susan Olding In the early 1990s, as a recent transplant from downtown Toronto to Eastern Ontario—more or less due north of Syracuse,
5 minTransitive Functionsby Nehal El-Hadi The first Arabic-language play to be staged in Toronto as part of a theatre’s regular season was a double-bill about the