By Khalisa Rae
In Knee-Length, poet and journalist Khalisa Rae navigates the nuances of an inherited conservative legacy. Pulling from memories of her religious upbringing and education, family history, and matrilineal teachings, Knee Length is a history reimagined and excavated—a rebellious relearning of desire and respectability, family and faith.
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the …
By Huan He
“he stared into the abyss, computer monitors under the screensaver’s spell, he / kept looking, never a backward glance but ahead”
Over the course of the last month, the world has watched violence unfold at a shocking pace across …
“it is lonely here / in the way I imagine places without life at all are lonely – / the surface of Mars. / the Moon’s ridges.”
By Emily Zogbi
“I / turn over a vase & find my name. I round / a corner & the table has vanished. I shake / a teapot & the missing rings appear in my / mouth.”
By Lane Fields
“A god we could not touch touched / our bodies & we became like light.”
“Water is intelligent. // It knows the fluid difference between tenderness and harm”
