As a woman of color in the academy, I do more labor than my white colleagues. But then I have guilt that my mother is laboring more than me. And I ask myself, “Was it worth it? Is it worth it?” In the fight, you have to remember to rest.
by Lydia Flores there is a languagethe tongue cannotkiss the teeth to speakbut there is…
Nominations include: “Today I Will Bake a Cake” by Layhannara Tep, “Your Daughter Refashions the Flag into a Crop Top” by Rosa Alcalá, “Time Wave” by Racquel Goodinson,”Snap This Photo of Two Good Men” by Catalina Bartlett, “Tell me all the things you’ve missed” by Natalia Torres, “Everything is Temporary” by Nicole Callihan
Featuring 6 micro-fictions and 5 poems inspired Cecilia Vicuña’s 1972 “Amaranta” which was “lost and reborn” when found in 2021. The Chilean artist-poet-activist writes simply as an introduction to her work, “My work dwells in the not yet, the future potential of the unformed, where sound, weaving, and language interact to create new meanings.”
Every year, Aster(ix) nominates some of our best work in poetry, story, and nonfiction for…
On October 2020 Kali Fajardo-Anstine visited the University of Pittsburgh as the winner of the…
The Aster(ix) family welcomes our Winter 2021 Artist-in-Residence, Nicole Callihan. On September 29, 2020, Nicole…
What’s Mine and Yours author Naima Coster recommends This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith.…
[The following is a selection of email responses from the poets in this issue to…