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...
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...
Before Roe U.S., 1968 It was an eventful year. A year that found me eighteen, on my own, and pregnant. The news wove in and out of my personal story. US soldiers massacred men, women, and children in the village of Mai Lai as the war against the Vietnamese people...
Swimming Lessons The only way I could make it through a flight was to sleep the whole way, so I slipped a Dramamine tablet past my lips and dry-swallowed before settling into my seat. My father sat in the middle space, providing a buffer between me and the stranger...
White Sands Most people wouldn’t think of southern New Mexico as a place a person might go to lean into their queerness. San Francisco or New York, Paris or Berlin, certainly, but an alabaster expanse of Southwestern...
Little TimeWe must go for a walkin the freshly-washedworld, he says.We must venture intothe thicket with cactiin our open corneas.There is so much to see,little time.Little time, trickling from an eave.Little time, dropping from leaves,falling,collecting,...
SUMMER CAMP FIELDTRIP TO THE WATERPARK My white friend says you can’t swim, can you—as if she’s known the answer tothis question all her life—then changes the subject. Did you really wear a onepiece instead of a bikini? Before they unleash us into the park, the...
WISE WOMAN Wise woman of Vermont, come out of the forest Assure me I won’t die lonely in these woods, show me How to keep owls out of my hair, tell me how To stack wood, to shoot trespassers, to seal the cracks In my heart to keep the ice out,...
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. This is the final post. The first post is here. - Structure: the organization of meaning A word...