Writing is an act of resistance
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History
By Rachel Custer There is only one story a woman says and maybe she is saying something about the truth, or maybe not. The history of a place like this is the history of those who leave it. It’s a great place to be from they might say, and smile. Pretty men and pretty women…
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Not a Strange Grammar
By Eduardo Escalante nothing to raise Abel or make a song and dance about at the extreme of disorder a hundred-year’s flood every decade stories stir shadows over our small hours there is no place principle or signal right left center where to live no cause, no cause at the extreme of disorder the disorder…
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Thoughts & Prayers
By Jane Rosenberg LaForge They are offered in rote as if the supply is bottomless; like abstractions, inaction and aesthetics; they could be meaningless or mean anything, so long as they are not so sustaining as steak & lobster for the impoverished; more like succotash & wilted lettuce. Maybe they’re a law firm the…
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The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass
Celebrate Black History Month with Frederick Douglass’ only published fiction from the 1853 anthology Autographs for Freedom Read the entire story on Archive.org, beginning on page 174.
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I Am Not a Person
By Jessie Atkin I do not want children I decide, stretched out beneath the eyes of the late-night newsmen. My own eyes ache, but not as much as my ears, as my age, as my soul. Yet this ache, this loss without losing, without losing anything I have but the future stings less. It…
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Two Poems by Gary Glauber
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Testimony
By Lynne Handy I smell it— testosterone bones the very air I breathe, raping seas and waterways, regulating wombs and ovaries, paring healthcare to a nub. I smell it in warlords’ jizzy elbow-rubs, in stilled dissent and parody; in decay of human brain cells, contempt for learning. It is strongest in the threat of nuclear…
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Stand Up, Kneel Down
By Israel Francisco Haros Lopez Artist’s statement: “Stand Up, Kneel Down,” digital art, was made to speak to the historical connection of Colin Kaepernick’s act, to speak to the issues that continue to plague our communities. His kneeling and those actions that have followed suit will stand in history as a moment when a…
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Administration Rumination
By Kathy Douglas I step over the cracks trying not to break my mother’s back while news accelerates to sideshow with Prez T as the bearded lady and Melania in the wrong place, wrong time. Time starts to taste like wormwood and rue, sour herb of grace, and climate change parodies itself in debates over…