“We Don’t Scare That Easily” — Asian American Public Art
The baseless dehumanization of one group of people dehumanizes everyone. On January 31, surveillance footage captured a hooded man violently shoving a 91-year-old Asian man to the ground in broad […]
Othered in a Land of Your Own: Review of Natalie Diaz’s “Postcolonial Love Poem”
Collections that sing their way across the temporal as rhapsodic as they do the spiritual often invite the audience into the poet’s world, guided by vocabulary and images rooted in […]
Poet Feature: Bao Phi
“Put a blindfold on me / tell me who you fear / and I will tell you / your skin” (94). This stanza from spoken-word poet and activist, Bao Phi, […]
Poet Feature: April Hernandez
Poetry can be a broad categorization but also an incredibly limiting one, and no one knows that better than April Hernandez. Genre-bending and experimental style challenges the conventions of the form, […]
Violence and Healing: “Flintknapping” in Conversation with Aremu Adams Adebisi
Aremu Adams Adebisi challenges his readers to reimagine grief, conflict, and hardship in his poem “Flintknapping”.
Caleb Nichols, 22 Lunes
Quite often, western culture uses the moon as a symbol of love. Feelings associated with the moon include connectedness and stillness even if love is not reciprocated. 22 Lunes by Caleb […]
Hannah CajanDig-Taylor, Romantic Portrait of Natural Disaster
Disasters seem to be on our collective minds lately. We are surrounded, it feels, by endings, fractures, faults, and failures. As fires blaze, storms rage, and a pandemic sweeps the […]
A Portrait of Mike Jon
When opening Mike Jon’s portfolio, you are met with nearly one hundred faces looking back at you. These are Mike’s portraits, each of which, outside of being cast in black […]
Bipolar Disorder & the Pursuit of Creativity
When you’re sick, each day is the same, and yet every day has the potential to be different.
The Existentialism of Millennial Authors
Much of my cohort is navigating a similar path to self-discovery as a result of being forced to surrender our yearnings for the places we’ll go and, instead, return to the places we’re from. In this new reality, I along with many young writers are using the page as a tool for reconciliation.
