September 2023

Volume 4, Issue 3

Poetry

• Ariel Banayan In Persian we call another language another tongue — death

• Kindall Fredricks Progressive Boyfriend Receives Standing Ovation For Saying He Thinks You’re Hot, Too and Brothers — misogyny, death

• Eben Bein T(he)y — transphobia, transmisia

• Ruby Shifrin Omelette — sexual assault, child abuse

• Maeghan Mary Suzik Knife Block — self-harm

• Amanda Dettmann Neighbors’ Heat Lightning — animal death

• K. Jasmin Dulai Great Barrington and San Jose Fools — starvation

• Rosa Castellano A GIRL THE COLOR OF SUNSET GOES TO HOMECOMING — racism

• Grant Chemidlin He Came to Me Again Last Night — homophobia

• Hilary King My Christmas List — death

• Katherine Page Stirrups — miscarriage, death

• J River Helms The End of a World — animal death, death

• Iris Newell touchpoints — transphobia

• Adam Day Bricolage II — suicidal ideation

• Gideon Huan-Lang Starting from Oppenheimer & Ending in My Arms — military violence

• Daniel Edward Moore Rope— animal cruelty, animal death

• Melissa Holm Shoemake Fragment in Response to the Interview Question for an Administrative Position at an All-Female College “How Will You Manage to Work Full-Time as a Mother?” (circa 2016) — sexism

• Jessica Hsu Aerophobia, or the fear of flying — death, suicide, suicidal ideation

• Kai-Lilly Karpman Punchline — domestic violence, death threats

• Marisa Victoria Gedgaudas Fault — earthquakes