Asterisms

When Trying to Return Home: Interview with Jennifer Maritza McCauley

For many of us, home can be a complicated place. It is amorphous and, as…

In Honor of Mother’s Day: 5 Books Centering Immigrant Mothers

The thing I never expected after going viral on TikTok, was how emotional I would…

STAY WILD: A conversation with poet and artist Jane Wong

As a woman of color in the academy, I do more labor than my white colleagues. But then I have guilt that my mother is laboring more than me. And I ask myself, “Was it worth it? Is it worth it?” In the fight, you have to remember to rest. 

THE PLANET COMMUNICATES: A conversation with Jhani Randhawa

“Poetry, language, feels like a practice—a study—of relation. For me, ecology is the root of all relation.” A conversation with Jhani Randhawa and their debut collection, TIME REGIME.

A Contemplation on Sorrow and Loss: A Review of WHAT STORM, WHAT THUNDER by Myriam J.A. Chancy

In August of 2021, I visited my place of birth, the Dominican Republic. A couple…

On the Silos of New York City: Angie Cruz and Stephanie Jimenez in Conversation

Angie Cruz meets with Stephanie Jimenez, author of They Could Have Named Her Anything to…

Anthropoesia: Poets as Anthropologists

Anthropoetry, is a poetry which utilizes the tools and techniques of the ethnographer as a…

Is a Cervix Cis?: My Year in the Stirrups

The year that I was four I made the same heinous grimace when anyone tried…

Movements, Activism and Writing YA with Elizabeth Acevedo, Jennifer de Leon, Lilliam Rivera and Natalia Sylvester

On August 28, 2020, Natalia Sylvester, Elizabeth Acevedo, Jennifer de Leon, and Lilliam Rivera joined…

Voyeur

I spy on the boys and girls in the alleyway between six-story brick buildings, containers…