A response to the April 18, 2024 statement from PEN America president Jennifer Finney Boylan
by Audrey T. Carroll
Ravens are intelligent, can use
tools, so I understand the hesitance
to trust them. After all, they might
not need you, and if they don’t need you,
there’s no telling what such a group might do
if they put their minds to it
by Ben Nardolilli
Enough of freedom, which comes from parchments
written by men who kept men and women in chains,
an empty word ringing through the years
from that cracked bell swinging in Philadelphia
by Ann E. Michael
Read More »… You graceful and salacious
ruminant! Carry summer’s sugar into the coming autumn
by Patricia Nicole Tan
I’ve always had a fascination with vases, ever since I was a child.
Read More »by Alexander Valenzuela
I wiped the tears from my face, my parents’ voices still echoing through my head after they had told me that I wasn’t allowed to attend my dream school. I had the acceptance letter, I knew there was a chance they wouldn’t let me, but I thought that things would be different now that I had graduated from high school. I thought they’d let me go on my own. The thing is, I have no control over my future, only they do. They tend to talk about it whenever they think I’m not listening.
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