By Abby E. Murray for Ilhan Omar The man with no back to return to— which is to say there is no path to safety from the cliff where he clings, no escape to remind him the way back is his— has wished to banish, send back, cast out a woman whose back is […]
By Sara Marchant We went, my mother and I, to get haircuts. The previous appointment was still there, standing in front of the mirror, talking. This woman’s hair made her look like a pretty Afghan dog; her large green eyes did little to compensate for wearing clothes too dowdy for a woman in her […]
By Elizabeth Weaver girl with eyes too large and milky teeth fairies must wait years for in country that ripped her from Mama locked her in metal cage no laughter crosses her howl swells into lost others’ sounds for families babies resounds past soiled dreams strips belonging as those ripping teach children how arms […]
By Diane Elayne Dees America is Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, Argentina, Canada. It is Paraguay, El Salvador, Guatemala, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Chile. America is Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Honduras. It requires a lot of nerve to take the name of two huge continents and make it your own. We are the man who stands against […]
