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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

POETRY

The First Half of the Day by Laura Garrison

The Window is Still Waiting by Laura Garrison

Take It In by Cooper Dossett

Cleaning the Camper After a Long Winter With My Grandfather by Sadie Shuck Hinkel

FICTION

I Might Get a Monkey by Jo Varnish

Normalman by Jody Gerbig

Screenings at Six and Eight-thirty by Buffy Shutt

Gone Any Second Now by Isabelle Correa

The Clown by Sandra Ebejer

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I believe poetry creates a space for us to heal from our wounds and to imagine new worlds outside of the white supremacist systems that strive to kill us. White supremacy demands we practice apathy and hate towards ourselves and others but I write to practice curiosity and tenderness. I say curiosity because white supremacy does not want us to be curious about the world or ourselves. Practicing curiosity has left me open to new possibilities of love and healing. I say tenderness, because having been raised in America,I have learned to internalize self hatred and to be cruelly critical of my experience as a black, multi racial, queer woman. It is my goal as a writer to approach each subject with an emotional vulnerability and honesty, to shed light upon the darkness. To write about the world as I experience it in an honest way requires me to replace the cruelty of my internal critic with tenderness.

Stones in your pockets /Screaming underwater

For All the Things I’ve Done (Can We Still Call It Love?)

It’s During One of Our Autumn X-Files Marathons

Open Letter to Beyoncé after the Release of 4:44

A Hymn for the Ancestors