by Ron Riekki
and I hope those thousand (or more)Read More »
sonnets will spring into love …
3 scenes
Quote of the Week, #15
I was going to die, if not sooner then later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you. …
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? …
And of course I am afraid, because the transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation, and that always seems fraught with danger. …
We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.
– Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action (as found in the book Sister Outsider)
2 poems
by Solape Adetutu Adeyemi
I think my wings may mend hereRead More »
And maybe I could learn to fly again
Well, sometimes…
by L. A. Ballesteros Gentile
There’s so much in it—the word sometimes: nostalgia and yearning and tenderness and regret… And so simple, too, so obvious: two four-letter words past the stage of hyphenation that portmanteaus often travel in fright.
Read More »Madrid & Porto
Ode on forgetting
by Pulkita Anand
I thought to tell something importantRead More »
Then suddenly, I started groping
Walk Away
by Megan Diedericks
the wind swept up
the memories twirling in my head:
it spun out of control, and dropped
when i stopped
next to it.
A Letter to Myself
Recommendations of the Month, III
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we are sharing more useful resources, magazines and initiatives that uplift Palestinian voices below!
We are also happy to feature another amazing fellow zine: Wild Greens Magazine, a monthly online mixed-media magazine (founded in Philadelphia in 2020) that publishes art, handcrafts, poetry, essays, short fiction, music, and more.
Their editor-in-chief Rebecca gladly answered a few questions for us.
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