Monica Woo
Memory Dance
By Monica L. Woo / Nonfiction / Slow-quick-quick. Slow-slow-quick-quick. My mother demonstrated the steps of the Foxtrot. Gently clasping...
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OUR Works
Jeddie Sophronius
Certificate of Citizenship
By Jeddie Sophronius / Poetry / My mother delivered me to this land, her ancestral tears washed me clean after my first cry. I am the son...
Tristan Joseph Espinoza
Dallas Is Boring
By Tristan Joseph Espinoza / Poetry / Dallas is boring these days, the endless suburban outlook, that stuck look on her face, I just keep...
Lee Price
A Place of Permission
By Lee Price / Nonfiction / My first great performance was also my first audition. I was twelve years old and rife with devastation. The...
Veronica Wasson
Transition
By Veronica Wasson / Fiction / I was born for something else. Or so I thought. Open the heart. I waited on the platform. The yellow...
William Luvaas
A Cluttered Brain
By William Luvaas / Nonfiction / We all harbor multiple selves. Freud recognized this in his Id, ego, superego paradigm: unbridled...
R.B. Simon
The Rock
By R.B. Simon / Second Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / A few years after I left, they tore down the shopping mall. Gentrifying...
Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias
Snoopy Band-Aid
By Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias / Poetry / You hear yourself echo inside her. Knock, knock. It’s me, baby Dionysus. Look at that...
Cassidy McCants
Smiling in Igneous
By Cassidy McCants / Fiction / What kind of beauty lies latent? Dormant? In the morning you walk outside to see gray. A haze that doesn’t...
Barbara Hughes
Echoes from a Bluff
By Barbara Hughes / Nonfiction / Staring at the tiny log cabin in front of me reminds me of a box sent from a loved one, something...
Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka
Little Machines
By Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka / Fiction / You are on the couch sketching the Christmas tree when you hear the growl of your brother’s Ford...
Corena Young-Dixon
A Good Mourning
By Corena Young-Dixon / Poetry / I’m sorry for the way I mourn those you’ve lost. I often look the way toward happier things, toward...
Eric Wang
Chilling at the Mandopop Karaoke Bar
By Eric Wang / Poetry / and when she sings the moon represents my heart maybe what she means is the distance, as in maybe i don’t look as...
Dominic Belmonte
Four Odd Years
By Dominic Belmonte / Nonfiction / 1. 1967: “Daddy?” I am thirteen years old, playing Pinners with my best friend Jose Martinez....
Jacquelyn Jordan
God's Tryin' to Tell You Somethin'
By Jacquelyn Jordan / Fiction / As a kid, I didn’t like to play with other kids my age. In fact I didn’t even like kids my age. They...
Ashley Pattison-Scott
The Heavy Cost of Fat
By Ashley Pattison-Scott / Nonfiction / In The Mother of Junk shop in Williamsburg, I stand very still. Yellow insulation hangs from a...
Susan Knox
The Farmhouse
By Susan Knox / Nonfiction / I was a forlorn five-year-old in 1946 when we left the bungalow where I’d lived all my life. I loved that...
Joseph Byrd
A short history of my personal eclipse
By Joseph Byrd / Poetry / Half seeing is whole seeing, if being clear is the ultimate opacity. Once I had the audacity to be found...
Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Square Level True
By Mara Adamitz Scrupe / Nonfiction / Arriving for my shift, I climb the stairs directly up to the low-ceilinged third floor. Once...
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