Asterisms

The Structure of Bubbles

I After a lifetime of smoking Virginia Slims, my grandmother was dying of lung cancer in the oncology…

Forget Hallmark: Why Mother’s Day is a Queer Black Left Feminist Thing

My mother is black. So the means through which I was produced is a matter…

Powder Puff

You can’t rush this. Nuh uh. That’s why you get up at four in the…

A Conversation with Filmmaker Alex Rivera

Watch Alex Rivera’s A Robot Walks Into a Bar at FUTURESTATES Armando García: I would like…

Alternate Canon

Recently, I’ve been thinking of June Jordan and the last lines of her inspiriting poem,…

The Anodyne Dreams of Various Imbeciles

In the second year of the war, the President of the United States was accidentally…

Aster(ix) Picks: Our Favorite Poetry 2014

Aster(ix) asked four poets we love to choose their favorite poetry books just in time…

Interview with Noam Chomsky on Racism in US and Europe

If only the people of the United States knew what their government is doing and…

front porch by Richard Elzey
How (In a Time of Trouble) I Discovered My Moms and Learned To Live

1. I spent my senior year in high school pretty much fucking everything up. I…

Writing Home

1 I’ve been trying to write since nine, counting hours in passing cups of steam.…