by Özgür Peksen-Saccone The sounds of my footsteps were mixing with my luggage wheel’s sound in the airport. The first colors of the day were playing with my shadow in the long corridors I had […]
Author: SARodriguez
My First Funeral is Yours
by Samantha Morgan I can’t take my eyes off your body. I don’t mean to stare, but you look so… dead. And you are, but I’m still learning this. This is all very new to […]
Cherry Blossoms
by Arben Alovic sweet soft spring breezes blow i’m lost in your waving hair as the trees awaken in colors of pink, white, green the beginning of my love i lay on this blanket beside […]
Blank
by Kiara Byrd —after Audre Lorde’s “Coping” I have been drowning for days nothingness fills my brain a small sphere of knowledge entered the void. A small hummingbird in my window is singing […]
Song For My Beloved
by Marlin Muñoz —after Diane Di Prima My love when you make your way to me if you’re lucky you’ll find a book filled with unread pages not quite one […]
Everywhere
by YUI And I hear your name, Whispered, In the wind, Gently makes its way, Through these spring trees; I’m sure I’ll never forget you. And I feel you, In the heat of this sun, […]
Sunlight
by Angelica I. Ayala Months of cold hail and wind, slicing. My world was an icy cave with no light or warmth where hope gathered in droplets only to freeze. A trembling man enters like […]
Polarized Politics
by Clare Kenefick Those in black cloaks make silly jokes Of the possible pains of poverty, Sky tribes use sky miles for far as the eye can see Right or wrong their own rights never […]
Mind & Soul
by Morgan Beck the mind and soul twists and contorts, into shapes not even god could newly dictate. such an abomination, the choked wheeze beckons for salvation and pleas turned demands are unheard. tight-lipped with […]
Interview with Victoria Buitron
VICTORIA BUITRON is a writer and translator whose work delves into the intersections of identity and place, family history, and the moments her hippocampus refuses to forget. A BODY ACROSS TWO HEMISPHERES, which narrates her […]
Interview with Christopher Gonzalez
CHRISTOPHER GONZALEZ is a queer Puerto Rican writer living in New York. His collection, I’M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT, follows the lives of messy and hunger-fueled bisexual Puerto Rican men who strive to […]
Interview with Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
RICARDO ALBERTO MALDONADO was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is the co-editor of Puerto Rico en mi corazón and the recipient of fellowships from Cantomundo, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and […]
