Emely Mendez 5/6/21 Emely Mendez 5/6/21

Here I Am, a brown-skinned girl

Admittedly I don’t fit quite right in this shoe / But I am me / I am me / Brown-skinned and free

Liya Chang 5/4/21 Liya Chang 5/4/21

a brief epistemology of hope

“you scream at birds until your throat is a strip of orange peel perforated at both ends but they don’t scream back. their vocal chords weren’t built for articulating sadness. yours were.”

the Review Editorial Board 4/29/21 the Review Editorial Board 4/29/21

Editors’ Picks: Varieties of Musical Expression

The Review’s Editorial Board consider albums, artists, and songs that reflect the diversity of that music contains.

Alex Carpenter 4/29/21 Alex Carpenter 4/29/21

The Time to Nana’s

“In the early morning twilight, just as their long, desperate nights are packing themselves up…Mila awakes, always gagging up bile, always feeling that she is paying some estranged debt.”

Elisabeth Miller 4/22/21 Elisabeth Miller 4/22/21

Try to be Somebody on Whom Nothing is Lost: An Interview with Prof. Greg Frost

Over a zoom call in April, Greg Frost discusses teaching, writing advice, the benefits of MFA programs, and more.

Liya Chang 4/15/21 Liya Chang 4/15/21

allegory for the year we lost to the moon

“standing there surrounded by strangers and snow and dry afternoon sun, i pretend there’s something in my eyes and wipe them with the back of my hands until everything’s blurry.”

Cat Crochunis-Brown 4/13/21 Cat Crochunis-Brown 4/13/21

Two Poems

“Breathe in at last with lungs unhitched— / Inhale, exhale the fruit-flied smell of meat, / the unmasked ketchup stains, the burning / rubber”

Angie Kwon 4/8/21 Angie Kwon 4/8/21

Oryx and Crake: A Manual on How to End the World and Not Save It

Margaret Atwood offers insight into a dying world—and how it shouldn’t be grieved or longed after.

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