Poetry

Volver, Volver

  y volver, volver to the mouth of the Yucatán where we first glistened with…

On Eschatological Radio Angels Flying in the Troposphere

Millennial engineers of faltering air, not eschatological radio angels tighten struts, bolts, and cantilevers of…

Three Poems

  I never met Bill Cosby but I met Beverly Johnson at Magic Mountain with…

Newsletter #13

    June 2016 “I/we see Aster(ix) as proactive. We are creating a home for…

Our 2015 Pushcart Nominations

ROGELIA JAMES IS NO PENDEJA by Catalina Bartlett “Dad let me stew in the holding…

Three Poems

Solitary Encounters His intellect reminded me of Spanish Harlem, unpretentious but resonating, as he discussed…

The Naming of Things

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Aster(ix)’s very own, Adriana E. Ramirez, recently gave a talk for TEDxHouston. Here you…

Unraveling the Grand Cliché: Yona Harvey’s Hemming the Water

When I was a teenager in Los Angeles, I nearly worshipped Frida Kahlo. My mom…

Charged and Uncoiled: A Review of Xochiquetzal Candelaria’s “Empire”

At its most potent, the language in Xochiquetzal Candelaria’s Empire simultaneously welds comparisons and juxtapositions,…

The Problem Was Oral by Stephanie Chan

His teeth had been gone for months. He’d been slurping jook. Which got tiring, which…