Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Thursday 9:47 p.m. Her phone rings. She contemplates ignoring the call, but a second before it rolls to voicemail, she picks up. “Hello.” “Hey baby, it’s me. How’s it going?” She smiles and shakes her head. “I’m fine,...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Nefertiti Asanti is a poet born and raised in the Bronx and a recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Watering Hole, Lambda...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure If a tree burns in California, does anybody hear it? Crackling and smoky, the flames licking the circumference of the trunk, sap oozing out like waxy blood. Once my father lit some logs in our fireplace during the...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Dunhuang, in the summer is beige and washed with soft, settled dust. It nests between sand dunes, two-tone hills that whistle and whisper at dusk, the breeze bringing mysterious dreams to those who sleep under its soupy...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Krystle May Statler (she/her) is a multiracial poet living in Los Angeles. She is a co-founder/editor for every other, a Los Angeles-based collective that publishes literary broadsides by writers from around the...
