2023 – 10th Anniversary Double Issue

Seasonal Affective Disorder

There’s a certain smell I associate with fall, a crispness that carries melancholy. These fleeting…

Last-Last Resignation

1st March 2017 Lusaka. Madam, Re: Resignation – Prisca Banda Madam, many months now, you…

Combination of Cecilia Vicuña’s “Amaranta” (1972) and photo by Kirill Sharkovski
Unfading [Story]

Their rage so loud she stopped hearing it. Telephone wires ran through her body and tugged her in different directions the way exile does. The way the world falls and the sea begs when love limps. The way numbers climb the wind like death tolls when oppressors are free.

Death of a Family

I. When did we become mortal enemies? You campaigned early and hard to be our…

The Patient Records

1.It begins in the middle like this: the sun sets quietly in a Brooklyn sky.…

Non-essential Knowledge: Latinx Studies in Times of Covid-19

Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, Arthur Schomburg, the black Puerto Rican scholar…

Sequence from Botanic América

sparrows void sneaker hollows thrown over a telephone line with nests. at dusk   we are…

Untitled & Ze

S****************: T***************L ARS IN A BOW El Paso. ZE All summer we set out to…