everything girl
"Oh, girlhood, I tried. I sunburnt until / it looked satin & practiced crying / like I meant it,"
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our literature
Lilirose (Rose) Luo
- May 14
- 2 min
“the universe is so much bigger than you realize"
"Forgive me, for to name something is / to lay claim to it. Forgive me, for I cannot help but want your / white-hot brand on my skin. "
Anuva Chowdhury
- May 12
- 1 min
this city is a planet / radioactive
this city is a planet / radioactive
and my parents wonder why i’m acting out
fissile skin / summer sin / things that split uncontrollably
Chris Fong Chew
- Apr 6
- 1 min
Shades: a Sestina on love and loss
Chris writes about love and loss as six words rotate in lexical repetition.
Sukriti Sinha (Shea)
- Apr 6
- 1 min
eupnea
"a broken window rattles in my left ear, / cochlear implants doing god’s work"
Hannah Govan
- Apr 6
- 1 min
Jaded // Green is a Feeling
Observing and feeling modernity in shades of green.
Angel Anjie Liang
- Apr 2
- 1 min
Lions Dancing in the New Year
And of course, no Chinese New Year parade is complete without the iconic golden-scarlet lion dances that frolic in the streets.
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- Apr 2
- 1 min
Cosmic Hand
... there is a cosmic hand /
Placing your hand in mine /
While my eyes become bewildered /
like a doe in bright light.
Isabelle “Billy” Agustin
- Mar 30
- 1 min
Nourishing
"she taught me that cooking is a kind of magic / a frenzy of sweat and love and work."
Lilirose (Rose) Luo
- Mar 27
- 3 min
6 Ways to Be Lucky
"Rib-climber, boy-eater, get in, you want to be kept / safe. Every storage ransacked and every container found wanting. "
Eunice Kim
- Mar 27
- 2 min
smoke signals
"but nothing’s loved me as much / as the clippers that licked up my scalp, sixteen / & godless shaving off my hair. "
Lilirose (Rose) Luo
- Mar 27
- 2 min
i tell you, in your car
a part-time lover / and a full-time friend, my big-girl / curls and dollar store mascara punched out / into an ash sweltered Interstate 80
Lilirose (Rose) Luo
- Mar 27
- 3 min
quadrennial promise
what I don’t name is all the parts of me I’ve left behind for the junkyards to ingest...
Eunice Kim
- Mar 26
- 1 min
the patron saint of grief spends halloween dressing up as somebody else
"Mostly I just sleep / I dream that it is Halloween & that we can all be / whatever we want, even alive."
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