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2013 Fall - The Fiction Issue 2014 Fall - Fiction: Kianny N. Antigua 2014 Spring - Ra(i)ces: Black Feminist Encounters 2015 Fall - Tierra/Home 2015 Spring - Girls in Their Bedrooms 2016 Fall - What We Love 2016 Spring - Atravesando 2017 Fall - Dirty Laundry 2017 Spring - Best of Kweli 2017 Summer - Kitchen Table Translation 2018 Fall - Edges 2018 Winter — (un)bound 2019 Summer - Inheritance 2020 October - The Ferrante Project 2020 Winter - The Poetry Issue 2021 HMB 2021 The Fiction Issue 2022 - September: Mothers Unearthed 2022 - The Tarot Issue 2023 - 10th Anniversary Double Issue 2023 - 10th Anniversary Issue Part I: Poetry & Nonfiction 2023 - 10th Anniversary Issue Part II: Fiction & Interviews 2024 - Bending 2024 Fall – Longing 2025 - Debut Fiction Flip Book
Spinal Column

Black women are supposed to have strong backbones but my Black back is jacked. Before…

Empire Building Requires History

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Detroit

I woke up in a hot room in Detroit after pushing two fingers into my…

Black Oximeter

Outside city hall, black folks stand in a long queue that circles around the city.…

A LOVE STORY

His Perfect Wife She is tall and preferably white or, if an immigrant, not one…

Tender

“Get the fuck out of my house,” she said levelly. Asperger conspired with Nazis. Your…

Nation of Poets

I woke up to a light of sky and you were my homeland. When did…

Self Portrait
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Notes on Writing about Sexual Violence

“What would happen,” the poet Muriel Rukeyser asks in her oft-quoted poem “Käthe Kollwitz,” “if…

Death of a Family

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