Nourishing
"she taught me that cooking is a kind of magic / a frenzy of sweat and love and work."
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our literature
Autumn McIntyre
- Mar 27
- 2 min
To My Grandfather
You lived through the Japanese Imperial Rule and the Chinese Civil War. But a heart attack was enough to take you down.
Li Yin
- Mar 26
- 3 min
BeFake: The Death of Genuine Connections
Coming to college and basically having to make friends again gave me a new approach to how I see two things: authenticity and kindness.
Eunice Kim
- Mar 12
- 1 min
sliced july
I wake up to July, water-bloated on the bed next to me and I know, going home has never been impossible until now...
Autumn McIntyre
- Feb 5
- 8 min
West District
"West District had a superhero. Because, apparently, superheroes were real. Min would get a headache if she kept thinking about this."
Eric Nhem
- Feb 5
- 15 min
Quarter Life Crisis
MAY 2021 A scream erupts from Max’s throat. He won the lottery! Well, the next best thing. Max reads the first words of the email again:...
Eric Nhem
- Feb 5
- 18 min
I Accidentally Break The World. Oops
Author’s note: I wrote this piece for a writing contest. We had to write the first chapter of a fantasy story. It could be about whatever...
Isabelle “Billy” Agustin
- Feb 3
- 3 min
Reflection on Diaspora Poetry
This is the core of a diaspora poem. For me, it is a eulogy. Grief in every word. Mourning the motherland.
Autumn McIntyre
- Jan 16
- 5 min
Good Behavior Part 1
Xiao Dan “And what did Principal Gagnon say?” “That I must’ve misheard. And that I shouldn’t eavesdrop on the boy’s locker room.” Xiao...
Autumn McIntyre
- Jan 16
- 8 min
Good Behavior Part 2
Xiao Dan Xiao Dan had never smelled anything worse than the boy’s locker room. She stopped herself from gagging and sucked in a breath....
LiLi Xiong
- Jan 9
- 2 min
50 Ways to Be a Woman: Written by a Man
Don’t play video games. We all know it’s for male attention.
Have hobbies other than doing your hair and makeup. Women are so shallow...
Emma Wong
- Jan 9
- 2 min
Dirge for an Immigrant
A poem about the constant burning of California's (and elsewhere's) Chinatowns. From Antioch (1876) to San Jose (1887) to Santa Ana (1906...
LiLi Xiong
- Nov 5, 2022
- 3 min
Morning in the Life of a 21st Century Student
6:00 am -
You blearily wake up from a dream about a penguin clinging to the edge of a sheet of ice. In its eyes, it has that pleading...
Lilirose (Rose) Luo
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
白蛇传 / transformation
but you do not hear them. if you had, you would have known to flee—
tripping over the calluses of your own feet to escape.
if you had...
Eunice Kim
- Oct 26, 2022
- 3 min
crave
Language shift in American immigrants typically occurs after three generations, with the third generation communicating entirely in...
Jackie Zhou
- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
How Heartbreak High Helps Heal My Relationship with My Gender Identity
How Heartbreak High Helps Heal My Relationship with My Gender Identity The reboot of the 1994 Australian teen drama under the same name,...
Li Yin
- Oct 10, 2022
- 2 min
Numb is Trapped, in Numbers
In a society that is defined by the internet, the media and sensory overload, is there true original thought? Garnering unprecedented...
Elisha-Grace King
- Oct 9, 2022
- 2 min
Mini-Me
Meeting this new person prompted me to feel emotional about the connection to home I lost by attending boarding school. I wrote this poem...
Jennifer Vu
- Sep 16, 2022
- 2 min
A Gilded Innocence
At six years old, you would’ve seen me playing with Barbies, wearing rainbow shirts and horizontally striped skirts, and enjoying my...
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