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The Inn

  • Categories: 2024 Spring, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Eliza Becker

ELIZA BECKER
Izza and Mila were the only two Jews staying at the Inn. All the other inn-goers were in neat groups of four, of mother, father, and two dear children, while Mila and Izza were just the pair. …Continue Reading The Inn

Notes from Nothing

  • Categories: 2024 Spring, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Willow Delp

WILLOW DELP
Hold it. Drop it. Shake it. Bite it. / Love it, hate it, leave it. Leave. It– / is fleeting; everything rots. / Nothing is forever. You will be the one to leave first….Continue Reading Notes from Nothing

This place and the other 

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Madi Suh
a drawing of a girl sitting on a curved road. inside of the curve, there are objects inside

MADI SUH
It was on the corner of Wilder on the way to the 7-Eleven / that you first stopped me in my tracks, and I didn’t notice / the car that would have killed me…Continue Reading This place and the other 

Red

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Shreya Hedge

SHREYA HEGDE
A Jet moved across the sky / a Meteor to hit the Sun awry, / yet it escaped unscathed / saving the Sun’s fate!…Continue Reading Red

to an evergreen who is me written by a self of mine far from here

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Aidan Cooper
image of stones on the ground in a painted blue background

AIDAN COOPER
there is no way to get you, not / really. // there is only marble column in rippling bloodstain — / the leaves are clattering, you clutch your breath and your coffee…Continue Reading to an evergreen who is me written by a self of mine far from here

To Rot

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Willow Delp
two bottles next to each other on yellow and orange painted background

WILLOW DELP
To rot is to join the raspberries in my fridge (so sweet, so short-lived.) To rot is to resist preservation; to be boldly, maddeningly temporal. …Continue Reading To Rot

Unpeel

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Venumi Gamage
a blue bird against green ripples

VENUMI GAMAGE
The edges of my mind are lifting up — / there’s dust and dirt settled in so no matter how hard / I press and smooth my fingers over the peeling perimeter, nothing I do will…Continue Reading Unpeel

Shooba

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Awa Diop
digital art of falling cowry shells among red circles

AWA DIOP
Every Sunday at dusk, her moans dragged down our Sunday sun and beckoned it to set. The unnatural sound always rang too loud and plastered to every inch of space….Continue Reading Shooba

Ruby and Rose

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Bea Agbi
a photo of a knitted piece of art. the knitted piece of art depicts two hands

BEA AGBI
It began around the time I got back together with Booker. They thought he was too simple, too easy to read. He wants what everyone else wants….Continue Reading Ruby and Rose

Under the Sun

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Bryan Jimenez Flores

BRYAN JIMENEZ FLORES
It was tradition that when I’d finish enough of my work I’d take the rest to the kitchen table and accompany my mom and the chores….Continue Reading Under the Sun

Paralyzed Pole

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Eliza Becker
blue painting with yellow, red, and blue splotches

ELIZA BECKER
Korris winced at the scissors’ first zip. Her ear had never been nicked while having her hair cut professionally, but she felt it to be probable, inevitable…Continue Reading Paralyzed Pole

Falling Apart

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Emily Wykoff
image of leaves forming leaf people

EMILY WYKOFF
Will this love die if unattended? / Abscising our petals, like peonies decaying / Feed for squirrels and worms and everything else / That wants to eat us alive …Continue Reading Falling Apart

How to Fall in ROT

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Grace Escoe
a painting of shoes against cracking ice and blue splotches

GRACE ESCOE
I am not ashamed / That I have not known much intimacy / That I never had a hand that fit the curvature of my own / That I never had someone whisper my name…Continue Reading How to Fall in ROT

I Wanna Show You Someone

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Jorge Rodriguez Jr

JORGE RODRIGUEZ JR
Their father threw a faded quilt in the middle seat where Ulysses would sit. Ulysses developed the habit of wetting himself when he felt the slightest urge to go. …Continue Reading I Wanna Show You Someone

Disappear

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Kaela Liu
image of red liquid falling past five hands reaching against a blue background

KAELA LIU
The five senses: touch, taste, sight, hearing, smelling. These five senses make up how we perceive the world. As we grow up, we accumulate experiences. …Continue Reading Disappear

Voided

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Rania Adouim
a picture of a black and white mushroom

RANIA ADOUIM
As a kid, I used to lock myself in the bathroom and try to imagine what death was like…..Continue Reading Voided

Space for Decay

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Sofia Ahmed
a tree inside a circle with anchors hanging down

SOFIA AHMED

I had to be called home, then dragged when I didn’t comply, to eat something. I was too happy, too alive, how was I supposed to remember that I needed food when I was this content? …Continue Reading Space for Decay

A Tick

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Sydney Harris

SYDNEY L. HARRIS
Eyes snap open, gazing up at a white ceiling. You breathe in and out deeply. INHALE EXHALE INHALE EXHALE INHALE EXHALE. It came again — the dream….Continue Reading A Tick

The Great War

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Sydney Williams
paperprint of a red woman looking at her reflection on a black background

SYDNEY WILLIAMS
Before the Great Self War of Identity, there was simply Sydney. As a young girl, I was an avid reader. I loved getting lost in the worlds of stories and following the adventures of young heroines. …Continue Reading The Great War

Island of Reverence 

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Willow Delp
a digital art piece of a giant statue half-submerged in water, surrounded by farmers

WILLOW DELP
The dictionary is wrong. The dictionary is written by parents and upright magistrates and kings all ill-acquainted with true reverence, the reverence that makes you sob and beg and wail and grove…Continue Reading Island of Reverence 

Drawing lines in the sand

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Grace Escoe
a photograph of a sunrise against a beach

GRACE ESCOE
I draw a line / My finger digs deep into the sand taking out a nice long straight line / That isn’t really my own even though I made it / The line that I cannot cross / The line that keeps me from making…Continue Reading Drawing lines in the sand

Veneration

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Emily Wykoff

EMILY WYKOFF
I’ve loved and lost and respected you / Things I never thought I’d say / I never wanted to love you / Nonetheless, the adoration found a way // They say that love is a choice / But, for you, it felt like falling…Continue Reading Veneration

girlhood: BLK edition

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Awa Diop
a painting of someone smiling with jewelry-encrusted teeth

AWA DIOP
My makeup bag is full of shades of brown. Before me lay my brushes sprawled out and richly coated with this palette: my foundations of ebony, expresso, deep mahogany. My concealers of mocha, chestnut…Continue Reading girlhood: BLK edition

Improv Tragedy and Laughs Afterthefact

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Aidan Cooper
a collage of pieces within colored circles that radiate outwards

AIDAN COOPER
i squirrel away my hurts into peanut shells that i hide at the root of my knurled spine, / all my snot-bubbles, all my stubbed toes, / all the times i let my teeth ferment in my spit without brushing before bed…Continue Reading Improv Tragedy and Laughs Afterthefact

A Secret Door

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Kaela Liu
a drawing of a boy and a girl walking down a path with trees surrounding them

KAELA LIU
We crossed the corner into an unfamiliar cul-de-sac. I had long since lost track of where we were walking, preferring instead to mindlessly track the rhythm of my pace with respect to my brother’s…Continue Reading A Secret Door

Stand to See

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Nicole Itkin

NICOLE ITKIN
not echoes, maybe / not even ghosts / still, they stand in
for // everything (everything) / I need most. // A girl in red curls over a bridge, / Dress trailing longer, lower- // who’s falling?…Continue Reading Stand to See

Addiction

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Sebastian Paredes

SEBASTIAN PAREDES
He drinks coffee. He embraces the bitter liquid. He does not care that it burns the roof of his mouth. He does not care that he can see his hands trembling. He does not care that he can feel his body shaking….Continue Reading Addiction

Water Beneath the Bridge

  • Categories: 2022 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Willow Delp
Digital art of a koi fish against a colorful background.

WILLOW DELP
The water was brown. / The Brabantio family had adamantly tried to ignore this fact – even the more progressive members politely refused to comment. …Continue Reading Water Beneath the Bridge

A Sovereign / Two Bodies

  • Categories: 2022 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Aidan Cooper
Two gray figures. Both seem androgynous. The figure on the right is sovereign and has a cloak and crown.

AIDAN COOPER
Her Prayer like a touch and boiling / Shiver turning the dust-clouds into rain. // He stands before a lectern named Wash / Where he uncoils ribbons from the holes / He cut through his fingertips the callouses…Continue Reading A Sovereign / Two Bodies

Stars Fallen From The Sky

  • Categories: 2022 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Emily Wykoff
A black and white photo of a girl with the shadow of a city line in the background

EMILY WYKOFF
A blonde woman stands on the Brooklyn Bridge, waiting. Lifting her hand, she brushes a strand of perfectly curled hair into her scarf. She waits patiently, eyes staring off into the distance. …Continue Reading Stars Fallen From The Sky

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