Asterisms

Review: Steffan Triplett’s CONSTRAINTS

How does one play with restrictions and limits to say something fresh and urgent, much less find joy? Winson Law discusses and reviews Steffan Triplett’s creative nonfiction chapbook, CONSTRAINTS.

Love in Their Own Ways: A Review of THE VEIL BETWEEN TWO WORLDS by Christina Vo

Christina Vo’s new memoir, THE VEIL BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, explores how that path towards healing and self-love is never direct. 

How to Be a Mutha Effing Writer in 3 Easy Steps

How do they do it? I reached out to a few mother-writers who I admire – published authors who are doing the difficult yet rewarding job of raising children.

STAY WILD: A conversation with poet and artist Jane Wong

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. 

THE PLANET COMMUNICATES: A conversation with Jhani Randhawa

“Poetry, language, feels like a practice—a study—of relation. For me, ecology is the root of all relation.” A conversation with Jhani Randhawa and their debut collection, TIME REGIME.

A Contemplation on Sorrow and Loss: A Review of WHAT STORM, WHAT THUNDER by Myriam J.A. Chancy

In August of 2021, I visited my place of birth, the Dominican Republic. A couple…

On the Silos of New York City: Angie Cruz and Stephanie Jimenez in Conversation

Angie Cruz meets with Stephanie Jimenez, author of They Could Have Named Her Anything to…

Anthropoesia: Poets as Anthropologists

Anthropoetry, is a poetry which utilizes the tools and techniques of the ethnographer as a…

Is a Cervix Cis?: My Year in the Stirrups

The year that I was four I made the same heinous grimace when anyone tried…

Movements, Activism and Writing YA with Elizabeth Acevedo, Jennifer de Leon, Lilliam Rivera and Natalia Sylvester

On August 28, 2020, Natalia Sylvester, Elizabeth Acevedo, Jennifer de Leon, and Lilliam Rivera joined…