Microeditorial: For Kanye, Resistance across the Americas

Zora Neale Hurston has an often discussed 1928 essay “How it Feels to be Colored…

How to Date a Thugboy, artboy, nerdboy or papichulo: remix of a Junot Diaz theme

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

Blood Out

You never forget the day the gifts show up. The day my blood first came…

Microeditorial: Against Official Forgetting

One of my favorite novels is The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera.…

Two Poems: All I want is you / Dear Home

All I Want Is You –a golden shovel after U2   Junior year, I fell…

El present is a gift

  …A woman named City Hips swing                male…

Microeditorial: Impossibilty of Redemption/ Justice and Possibilty

I come from a place in which I was taught that you don’t meet violence…

Two Poems: It’s been three months since the last drop of rain / Turning

  It’s been three months since the last drop of rain I. the seagulls circle…

REVIEW: I am the Person I Know Best: Jennifer Givhan’s Lifeline

Run. Being run. Run on asphalt. Being run on asphalt with old sneakers. Being run…