2017 Spring – Best of Kweli

Poor Girls’ Palace

Our mother had been gone now for eleven days. Her longest recess yet. Recess is…

derrame

  They call it the shoreline, el abismo que tiene poder too wide to hear…

Still Life

I lie and say this scar’s a gift from my cat. Three inches long, hypertrophic,…

An Introduction to the Monster (Novel Excerpt)

Thank you for that New Year’s Day. That day the monster was on my back.…

Ain’t That Good News

  Florence Holmes kept her knife in Psalm 94.  An eight-inch stiletto with a pearl…