I was born as an ode to this country—skin and sinew spun from the American Dream, from my mother’s stretch marks and growing pains. She chose my name because it means “blossom” in her language—because she wanted me to grow and climb and soak in the sun of opportunity, to bask in the privilege she […]
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The only thing my mother says that I believe is that I see what I want to see. You do, too. And so does she, but I don’t know if she believes what she says. I know this is true because she refuses to see objects as they really are, how they become when no […]
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Sundress Publications is currently looking for a remote Editorial Intern for the first half of 2026. Applications should send a resume and cover letter detailing your interest in the position to Staff Director Kanika Lawton at sundressstaffdirector@gmail.com Deadline: 11/21 The New Delta Review is currently accepting art, flash CNF pieces of up to 1000 words […]
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Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators The Light Becomes Us by Colleen S. Harris The Light Becomes Us is a collection of narrative poems exploring how the American family holds both the grace to save us and the tragedies that doom us. Poems from the perspectives of mother and daughter delve into […]
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after Jane Kenyon’s “Otherwise” They took the village that stood behind us. It might have been otherwise. We heard gunshots tearing the bodies of our neighbors. We heard the houses of our friends yelling as they burned and threw their particles at the sky, but the skin of our houses was as clean as a […]
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On the sidewalk behind the middle school at dusk, flashlight pointed down in the dark, spade in hand, standing before the overgrown field, I remembered the guilt of loving a boy. Of burying that love, the future’s burden. That night I needed to know if I’d once loved and only learned not to, or if I never loved at […]
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In my head there’s an old man who says “GPS is for pussies” at war with an old man who says “hemorrhoid cushions are for pussies” so i’m not how you say deep but i learned a few things working at the butterfly exhibit one it’s possible to surround yourself with beautiful things and not […]
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“Community Outreach” originally appeared in Trans Survivors Zine: Healing in Action, published by FORGE. Big gay non profit is rough with me. Breaks my limits hard and soft alike. Apologizes with day-old bagels and wilted cream cheese in the breakroom, left over from a mandatory training about pronouns. They tell us that we’ll get through […]
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Walid Sadek, an artist and writer who works on post-war Lebanese society, writes of the figure of the “nonposthumous survivor” as one who carries the burden of unnecessary memory, whose testimony is a challenge to post-conflict normalcy and peacebuilding. During this period of mass psychosis, those disappeared or illegally abducted, come to occupy a liminal […]
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sef adeola is a Nigerian Illustrator and Textile Designer who uses cave art and Yoruba textile design motifs in his work. He began his art journey from secondary school taking Fine Art for 6 years then going on to understudy Nigerian Artist and Educator, St. Andrew who was taught by Nigerian Art Master, Yusuf Grillo. […]
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VAGABOND CITY 