Dad-in-a-Bag
It seemed odd to Christy that there would be a place to pick up ashes in between a Marshalls and a Michaels, but she supposed that’s what you get for a whopping $675 bucks; it was the cheapest option she could find. She had tuition to pay, and burning a body hadn’t been in her budget for the semester.”
Sitters and Saints
It’s winter in Yonkers. My mother has taken me to visit a man who isn’t my father. He looks just like a Latino Freddie Mercury with his leather jacket and greased mustache.
Protected: Upstream Swimming: Border Poetics, Politics & Aesthetics;
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Us versus Them, Them versus Us
We might die without successfully changing
our names on a government database
but we know how to live, and we use our hands
like peeling rubber until nothing is left but smoke
Writing Yourself Into History as a Transmasculine Adoptee, Grownup Emo-Kid, “Career Texan:” An Interview with KB Brookins
KB Brookins is trying their hardest to be brave. The Black trans masculine poet and author of the collections How to Identify Yourself with a Wound and Freedom House just released their first memoir, Pretty.
Disembodied Dreams of Sacrifice
Read Juania Sueños’s review of Rios de La Luz’s Altar to Liminal Saints.
Wilted Flowers, Generational Trauma, & Ecstasy
Waiting for either a Caress or a Blow
Read mónica teresa ortiz’s review of Saúl Hernández’s debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters
“I Learn Forgiveness Inside My Father’s Life”: A Son’s Journey Through Family Wounds & Redemption
A Review of Sebastîan R. Páramo’s debut poetry collection, “A Portrait of Us Burning.”
The House Next Door is On Fire and We Have to Keep on Living
A review of jo reyes-boitel’s newest poetry collection, “the matchstick litanies”
