Poetry
We are thrilled to share our Spring 2024 issue, Bending, curated by Angie Cruz with drawings by Laylah Ali and writing by Victoria Chang, Caro De Robertis, Julian Delgado Lopera, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Courtney Faye Taylor, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Chinelo Okparanta, Shana L. Redmond, Lilliam Rivera, and Alejandro Varela.
Aster(ix) is a laboratory, a space where women writers of color can play and experiment. We celebrate our 10th anniversary with a double best-of issue.
You & the Pendulum She held a chain with a crystal suspended from it…
Handal collapses the borders between surrealism and realism, the cinematic and the ordinary. And the use of repetition amplifies her global beats.
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.
“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.
by Lydia Flores there is a languagethe tongue cannotkiss the teeth to speakbut there is…
Nominations include: “Today I Will Bake a Cake” by Layhannara Tep, “Your Daughter Refashions the Flag into a Crop Top” by Rosa Alcalá, “Time Wave” by Racquel Goodinson,”Snap This Photo of Two Good Men” by Catalina Bartlett, “Tell me all the things you’ve missed” by Natalia Torres, “Everything is Temporary” by Nicole Callihan
Featuring 6 micro-fictions and 5 poems inspired Cecilia Vicuña’s 1972 “Amaranta” which was “lost and reborn” when found in 2021. The Chilean artist-poet-activist writes simply as an introduction to her work, “My work dwells in the not yet, the future potential of the unformed, where sound, weaving, and language interact to create new meanings.”
