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Wait for your sister and your father to leave the apartment. You’ve already told them…

Plush as carmine / (tender) as a sore

  In our world, pomegranates are bees’ produce. Structure of honeycomb, kernels combed away. The…

A Food Connection: Interview with Wura Natasha-Ogunji by Antonio C. La Pastina

Small university towns are challenging places for cosmopolitan-minded individuals. When my partner and I moved…

future tense (minor tribe: 2012)

like the family I need documents to stay here lose them and I lose my…

El Muro / The Wall

No one believed it would happen here En el Valle Where the birders find such…

ARCHIVE: Vandal Newsletter #4, Race Matters

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ARCHIVE: Vandal Newsletter #3, Food & Poetry

Food and Poetry Considering the relationship between your mouth and your problems? Try Stephanie Chan’s…

ARCHIVE: Vandal Newsletter #2, What’s For Dinner?

What’s For Dinner? Feeling like eating a vegan pepperoni-cheese bread? Or some cochinita pibil? Want…

Sam’s Mom’s Vegan Pepperoni-Cheese Bread

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Letter to Anthony [Critical Resistance] By Suheir Hammad

I this is not a pre paid call this is not a poem this is…