Edges: Aster(ix) Fall 2018 Anthology — Edited by Angie Cruz & Marta Lucia Vargas

Dear Reader, In this anthology, writers, both established and emerging, offer prose and poetry that…

Three Poems: Edge/ Race Chronicle en Bref /The Reservation

Edge “A woman is perfected.” Sylvia Plath She is bare. She is open. Petals around…

Bad Muslim

I I didn’t want to pray. I didn’t want to read the Qur’an. And I…

The Disquiet of Being Anonymous by Andrea Jeftanovic

  Translated from the Spanish by Juan Carlos Reyes [dropcap letter=”A”]t every shine of the full…

Intruder

A thump on the glass. A snout pressed against the glass door in my living…

Autumn Lessons by F. Marzia Esposito

  Translated from the Italian by Jeanne Bonner   There’s fog in the courtyard when I…

once more, with feelings

let us give thanks this eid for the thirst of the first gulp of water…

120 Kingsway store Port Harcourt Nigeria
Native Tongue

It was the summer of 2010 at the height of World Cup fever on an…

From The Proscenium: Preface

“After taking the typewriter to her bed, Valence takes apart the typewriter.”