WildingMachetazo!, Bony Ramirez & Blonde Dreams, Alison Saaryou can take the girl out of the wildernessyou can strand her bewilder her for a timeyou can even hang her upside downin your rickety attempt to shake loosethe source of her power but you won’t...
An excerpt from the forthcoming novel The Opening of the Mouth Jade hadn’t mentioned this train ride to her mother. When they’d spoken recently, she’d filled any space that had opened for it in their conversation with some remark about rising crime, gossip from the...
Beach ReadingIssam ZinehEarlier when you told me green was a hard color to wear, I thought you said it makes the skin look fallowa. I could barely hear you over the specific musicwe came here for: esses and effs of oceansound.We will want, at some point, after having...
Katherine Yang A World Encoded I had never thought so obsessively about poetry as I did when I was learning about syntactic linguistics. There were different kinds of verbs, my professor had told me. If John threw a ball, that throwing was a doing. But if John loved...
Vandana Khanna Stardust & Destiny Meena wakes with a dry mouth and swirls of blue-black marks on the back of her hand—a fake bruise indicating every club or bar that she’d been to over the weekend. The previous nights’ restless revelry resulting in a cluster of...
Read an interview with the author here. Jeneé Skinner Mother Goose An old woman gave birth to four eggs. Gold and cradled by tree roots and ribbons inside her house. Their births were ugly, complicated by forceps and fluorescent lighting, but the loving made it worth...
Osasere Edo-Ewansiha Jeneé Skinner has a degree in Creative Writing and went abroad to the University of Oxford to study Renaissance Literature and the Italian Renaissance. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Roxanne Gay’s The Audacity, and...
Jennifer Maritza McCauley When I was a college kid at the University of Pittsburgh, joy-eyed and largely a loner, I came across the album Full Circle by the hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics (which includes all of the members of Souls of Mischief, the group behind the...
S. J. Ghaus listen سنو Under The Sargam, The Sea S. J. Ghaus is a Pakistani American writer, artist, and cultural worker for the people. They are a Tin House alum and resident, VONA/Voices of Our Nations fellow, and recipient of the 2020 Vera Meyer Strube Prize from...