Interview, Makeup, and Creative Direction by Zawadi Carroll Photography by Vanessa dos Santos DC’s rapidly gentrifying art scene has experienced cutthroat changes over the past decade. Several of the city’s natives, many of them young artists, have been pushed to the suburbs of Maryland and Virginia for more affordable and humane living conditions. The poetry…
Read MoreCigarette smoketo suffocate the beckoning of my sorrows,My frame is still shaken upfrom the last time I survived myself Protecting me still,this aura I was born in,proving it’s dexterityemanates raw power like the SunSurrender into it.
Read MoreDeAngelo Oliver is a 23 year old non-binary Micronesian poet based in Olympia, Washington. They graduated from the University of Washington in Tacoma with a Bachelor’s degree in writing studies and a minor in education. Their poetry centers their life experiences, culture, and gender identity.
Read MoreiHave doubted my smile–if it existed in the faceof those mouthing of my ubiquitous grin.but iDo know whenmy smile smiles– feeling the evidence in its departure.here, it wasn’t the picturesqueLos Angeles January Sun, but a removal of a tether’snever questioned presence.such a wonderful good-bye greeting a lucky camera.happy, it seems, visitedme in spontaneous burst. my…
Read MoreFran Fernández Arce is a Chilean poet currently living in the intersection between Suffolk, England, and Santiago, Chile. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Pollux Journal, Journal of Erato, and Anamorphoseis, among others. She is a poetry reader for The Walled City Journal and poetry editor for Moonflake Press
Read MoreBinx R. Perino is a poet, organizer, and activist at Emerson College. They organize with the Boston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and work as a housing advocate within the city of Boston’s homelessness services. Their work has appeared in Cold Mountain Review, GASHER, Euphony, and elsewhere.
Read Moredo you intend to spend your lifeturning turning and turning from shadowsor running into your future. Sloane Angelou is a storyteller & writer of West African origin; passionate about learning of human existence by interrogating human experiences. They exist in liminal spaces.
Read MoreOriana Sophia is a Dominican Actress/Costume Designer based in NY. She earned her BA in Theatre and Creative Writing from Hunter College and later studied at the Maggie Flanigan Acting Studio.
Read Morethe universe beganwith a big banga molten red envelope folded within – a hell bank noteand an origin storyI have never heard before I see constellations with unfamiliarfaces speaking in tones I do not knowand cannot remember the strokeorder of celestial characters you placed a bright sun in their hands—little flamethey delivered me an ember…
Read MoreMalik Thompson is a cis Black queer man from Washington, DC. Malik is a poet, nonfiction writer, and unapologetic bibliophile. When not selling books at Loyalty Bookstore, you can find Malik reading Toni Morrison, at a dance party, playing a JRPG, or leading a poetry workshop. You can follow Malik’s Instagram account @negroliterati to find his thoughts on…
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