Cardi B. Scores a Hit Album
by Donney Rose issue 70 and somewhere a hood Black girl/is being kicked out of a class/for her alleged attitude/ is being told that her stance/her mouth her body/is too wild for America’s comfortis training her tear ducts to/not give a fuck/not give a shit/to feel as indifferent about being active/as America feels about her […]
love poem: dezireé
by dezireé a. brown issue 70 You touch / yourself / in the mirror name / each scar with chewed / hands It is time / to tell you the story of our revival / of how this […]
The Satchel
by Shawn Goodman issue 70 This is how it started: I froze in the med line. Call me Lithium Fat. Call me Nicotine Stain and Compulsive Collector of Notebook Ticks. Call me Sleeps in Clothes, Bipolio, Massive Depressive. Call me Joe. The new staff guy checked his clipboard. “Joe,” he called, fingers pushing pills out […]
Helen Frankenthaler, My Mother, and the Properties of Art
by Sarah Van Arsdale issue 70 It was in a cold mid-December that I had the dream. I dreamed I was in a cave. It was surprisingly well-appointed, with Oriental rugs strewn on the ground and benches carved out of the cave walls. Around me, piles of my mother’s things—boxes of her diaries, and letters, […]