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 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 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 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...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure I woke up to the sound of muffled commotion. When I went into the living room, couch cushions were tossed all over the place and Mama’s arm was so deep in the lining of the couch it looked gone forever. “What are you...
Submission Opportunities for 2021! In May and June of 2020, I sat in my house, watching as news reports of protests and unrest streamed in from all over the country. I felt the same way many Black folx at the time felt: helpless. Yes, we could go to the streets, risk...
