Oysters / Ostras

  Oysters I often stop on my way home from midtown meetings at the Oyster Bar…

No Cessation/ No Escampa

  No  Cessation When you’re not here and the jungle has swallowed you, I spend my time gathering…

Flashes / הבזקים

  Flashes Rattling train,  unloading, moving away,  a barrage of gunfire, the stitching of machines, gathered…

Our 2015 Pushcart Nominations

ROGELIA JAMES IS NO PENDEJA by Catalina Bartlett “Dad let me stew in the holding…

Microeditorial: Creed

I never thought I’d be rooting for a Rocky film. The franchise recalled American exceptionalism,…

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Just over 100 years ago, President Woodrow Wilson called the film Birth of a Nation…

Rogelia James Is No Pendeja

Dad let me stew in the holding cell for eight hours. By then, the vomit…

Holding A Mirror Up To Society: An Interview With Writer Sharon Leach

Sharon Leach was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and attended the University of the West Indies,…

Writing Home: An Introduction

Hiraeth is a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, a home that maybe…

Asleep In Capilla El Dorado

Resin pellets spark clouds inside the airport chapel & a priest marks time, swinging the…