Go Home (Excerpt, Neruda on the Park)

Months before, Eusebia sat next to an older Dominican woman who talked to the roof…

Tender Birria

[A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: As my lesbian marriage was disintegrating, I experimented with dating…

Esto no puede ser nomás que una canción (excerpt from Rhyme and Reason) by Criseida Santos-Guevara

Translated from the Spanish by Amira Plascencia-Vela There’s a song stuck in my head, and…

Ayşe Papatya Bucak: On Optimism in the Face of War, the History of Sponge-Diving, and Having an Open Borders Imagination

Bucak’s wry humor and easy storyteller’s voice persists throughout her collection, The Trojan War Museum…

Nina Subin
Crystal Hana Kim: On Love, Empathy and Maternal Ambivalence

If You Leave Me, the debut novel of Crystal Hana Kim, consistently topped best of lists for 2018.…

We Did It – Aster(ix) Journal Newsletter |August 2019

We’re thrilled to share the big news: Aster(ix) won a 2019 FIRECRACKER AWARD for best debut literary magazine from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses!

Song of Morrison: A Eulogy

Once upon this time, Toni, we resented the art of writing eulogies. It’s been a…

Beyond Borders: Immigrant Women Writers In Conversation

Angie Cruz: In response to Trump’s election and the rise of the #metoo movement, Irina…

Sean Gandert: What does it mean to be a person while the world is burning?

Set in Albuquerque and steeped in magic and Catholicism, Sean Gandert’s novel American Saint uses…

Poe Park

Bronx, NY (1847-Present) From this cottage,where he heardhis young cousinbride, Virginia (our Annabel Lee), fighther…