Editor’s Note
What are the institutions — family, religion, education, and beyond — that dictate your understanding of the world, and where do you locate the sting of disillusionment?
Root Systems
How do we get back to the root of things — how can we pull up the weeds in our work to make space for new growth?
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Readthese things now for my companions i shall sing beautifully
what would queer visions of the family network look like? -
ReadTomorrow Will be Even Brighter
The first thing you need to know about Hot Spring Leisure City is that there are no hot springs. -
ReadConfessions to My Ancestors
Confession: I don’t know my ancestors’ names. Also: my Mandarin is lousy. I have never been to our ancestral village. -
ReadThis is a Body • Requiem / For Victor Gutierrez
This is a body / and this body is this thing of terror—how / in this world every / woman is a survivor and every… -
ReadSometime Daughter
A partial erasure of King Lear -
ReadThe Jungle Book: Epilogue
I’ve been lying for a long time, so let me tell you a story. / We can never go back to who we were, despite the bravado -
Read[…lakeside…] Against Passivity
For the sake of this poem as / a citable document, I’ll name / just the one breath this time -
ReadDispatches from the Richmond Uprising
Before we leave Virginia, the doctor calls us from his home. -
Read“impression” and other poems
through my eyelids / yellow wall / of sun was I -
ReadReading in Carceral Tense
Vignettes of/with the Russian Dictionary of Imperial and Soviet Prison Slang -
ReadMoses’ Ear
I had thought I was alone. A familiar scent of bleach and black coffee hung suspended in the warm air of my childhood kitchen. -
ReadPortal Triptych
say: here here: hear still: hours bud until split stretches: a body / out -
ReadSelf-portrait as unproductive machine
The hands of the clock strangle my neck. Each hour, a rueful sigh.
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Issue 14ReadEconomies of Harm
What hard truths do you need to examine about our current systems so you can see yourself more expansively in your own honesty? -
Issue 16ReadProximities
What are we as humans surrounded by — do we choose to surround ourselves with — and how do we situate ourselves within language?