Aster(ix) Picks

(Un)bound: Best of Poetry

Celebrate with us five years of Asterisms where we feature works published online. Congratulations to…

(Un)bound: Best of Prose

Celebrate with us five years of Asterisms where we feature works published online. Congratulations to…

From A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas

Drawing from the hemispheric context of the Americas, A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art…

2017 Pushcart Nominees

The Woman and the Branch Tlaquaches War in Translation Still Life Judging A Cover By…

Best of the Net Nominees

RACHEL ELIZA GRIFFITH The Woman and the Branch AURORA MASUM JAVED A woman cries on…

5 New Latinx Books

The Art of Death by Edwidge Danticat On page 40, Danticat writes: ‘Sometimes we must…

Ten Must Reads for Mama Day

In honor of those who mother and have been mothered, Aster(ix) editors pick their favorite Mama…

Artists On The Verge

This summer I read this New Yorker article on Mark Bradford titled What Else Can…

Alternate Canon

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