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  • Poem
    By Rochelle Hurt
    [if you marry your confession, you can live alone inside it. no priest behind the window. no wife or…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    I-765

    By Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
    Under the header Other Names Used are a series of collaged labels from a form with boxes filled in with poetic text. Under the header Other information are two boxes. One asks for the alien registration number. The answer is filled in as antigravity. The other asks for the SSN and is filled in as antisocial. Under a collaged header with the text Your Countries Citizen Nation Place of Birth are several boxes filled in with poetic text.
  • Audio
    By Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineCherry

    By Yi Li
    I love cherries.
    The fruit, juice, jam,
    blossoms, prints on a summer
    dress, in a black forest cake…
  • Poem
    By Maxine Hong Kingston
    Translated By Chun Yu
    I pay.
    In dream: Susie’s medical bill.
    For real: Moana bar tab.

    我付款。
    夢中:蘇西的醫療費。
    現實:莫阿娜酒吧賬。
     






     Time I write …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    Mango Head

    By Shara McCallum
    Why yu always ask stupid question, ee?
    The man call mango head because him head
    shape like mango. What…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineUntitled/無題

    By John Whalen-Bridge
    Translated By Chun Yu
    The words of children
    splash in grandmother’s mind
    and ripple to now.

    孩子的話兒
    在祖母心中濺起
    蕩漾至今。 
  • Audio
    By Maxine Hong KingstonTr. by Chun Yu
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    Rabbithole

    By Chris Hoshnic
    xxx
    In the truck at his funeral time catches up to me / beaks me into
    opaque-ness / a cog in the…
  • Poem
    By Chris Hoshnic
    Dá’ák’eh     ahooł’níi niłch’i  doo   naadą́ą́.
    Naadą́   niłch’i
    Doo     Sodizin.
    Niłchi     adiin             goo
    Sodizin bee ’adoolnii…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFemale Rain

    By Doug Gonzalez
    only I stood in the rain with wet skin. I could taste the dew though it had not yet found my lips. …
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