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  • Two Poems

    Two Poems

    Sometimes she made keema, and Lord help you girls if it gave you brains as well— what they called results made its way to our plate. We have photographs.

  • Invocation of the Black River

    Invocation of the Black River

    Melissa says squatting in the river is like squatting behinda restaurant. Or over the toilet of a rural restroomseveral hours into a road trip. This is a moment of restwhere I must engage my core muscles. I lookat Erin unswayed…

  • The First Book: J Brooke

    The First Book: J Brooke

    “The book was always meant as political in its simple existence— the adding my voice to the annals of Trans/Nonbinary collective is an act of anti-erasure. While writing this, though, the incoming administration became even more vile in its attempt…

  • Shoehorn

    Shoehorn

    “I’ll just keep buying groceries again and again and again.”

  • Pop-Tart Crumb

    Pop-Tart Crumb

    “All my life is telling obstacle from sweetness and i must smell to know – i smell everything for its scents – i smell rock most often – wet wood – i smell linoleum, hair of dog, smudge of olive…

  • Now More than Ever, We Need “The Happiest Band on Earth”

    Now More than Ever, We Need “The Happiest Band on Earth”

    It’s a sentiment at the core of The 502s’ origin story. In 2015, Isola and a pair of cousins founded the band, and while they were searching for a name, Isola and one of the cousins (who happened to live…

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