Nonfiction from Kailee Marie Pedersen
The Cordeliad KING LEAR What can you say to draw ………………………..A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak. CORDELIA Nothing, my lord. After my grandparents and parents die, I will inherit one third of my family’s farm in Fremont, Nebraska. I have no idea how […]
Poetry from Baba Badji
MULTINATIONAL SELF Imagine shutting myself in the American face, where I face the low slung & pale sky where Africanness send Negroness down the elephant’s shadow of Négritude. The will to smile that big Senegalese smile- Un Homme blanc me dépose au regard de L’Océan Atlantique, au regard des terres Africaines Because I refuse to […]
Poetry from Kate DeBolt
Editor’s Note: The following ekphrastic poems are responses to artist Barton Lidice Beneš’ “Lethal Weapons” series—specifically, the pieces “Silencer” (1993) and “Molotov Cocktail” (1995)—in which the artist filled various vessels with his own HIV-positive blood. To see each poem’s corresponding artwork, click on its title. . . Silencer i wouldn’t really kill you but if i did […]
Fiction from Jennifer Fliss
Towels . The baby is born at home. This isn’t planned. In a blizzard in Wisconsin, she slips out of her mother and is wrapped, a slush of vernix and blood; a blue child in a crisp white towel. . We are going to the beach. We carry sunblock and water and snacks. The kids […]
Three Cross-Genre Pieces from Jessy Randall and Briget Heidmous
Editor’s Note: The following are from the Mapping Project, a collaborative work by Jessy Randall and Briget Heidmous which includes images with text, texts made of images, animated gifs, and more. We’re delighted to share these selections. . . Message in a Bottle — Enough — Fair to Say . . Jessy Randall, 47, has had […]
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