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From the Editor of Amplified Voices

By | 2024-03-24T11:04:45-07:00 March 27th, 2024|Categories: Issue 143: March 2024|Tags: , , , , |

By DW McKinney   These words—the ones in this note and the ones in this issue—are difficult to write. Do not look away from them. Let them sink into you. I am writing this editor’s note after I have seen a father carry his son, blown to pieces, in a yellow bag, and I fought (and [...]

Writers Resist News

By | 2021-07-16T16:19:32-07:00 July 17th, 2021|Categories: Issue 132: 17 July 2021|Tags: , |

New schedule, renewed resistance—and a new editor We are delighted to introduce our new editor, DW McKinney. DW is a Black American, multi-genre writer, and she’ll be collaborating with our poetry and prose editors. She pens 3 PANELS, a graphic novels review column for CNMN Magazine. Her work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, [...]

Legacy, Complicated

By | 2021-07-16T16:19:00-07:00 July 17th, 2021|Categories: Issue 132: 17 July 2021|Tags: , , |

By DW McKinney A small queue is forming outside a set of locked glass doors when I whip into the parking lot. It’s the first time I’ve ever been to the Doolittle Community Center even though I frequent the park a few hundred feet away on a regular basis with my daughters. I exit my car [...]