2023 – 10th Anniversary Issue Part I: Poetry & Nonfiction
Aster(ix) is a laboratory, a space where women writers of color can play and experiment. We celebrate our 10th anniversary with a double best-of issue.
my blood moves like tectonic plates: so slow one might not notice, but notice first,…
I met Firelei Báez at The Andy Warhol Museum for over an hour. She was…
Artwork by Lucia Hierro. EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally published on January 31, 2017 but…
You & the Pendulum She held a chain with a crystal suspended from it…
I grew up believing that I belonged to a family of birds. When your family…
There’s a certain smell I associate with fall, a crispness that carries melancholy. These fleeting…
Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, Arthur Schomburg, the black Puerto Rican scholar…