the blueshift journal
blueshift / ˈblo͞oˌSHift / noun
the displacement of the spectrum to shorter wavelengths in the light coming from distant celestial objects moving toward the observer.
ISSUE V | SUMMER
meet the writers and artists
meet the people behind the issue
words from co-founder tyler tsay
table of contents
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cover art: "captive" by cynthia lee.
design and layout by grace li & lily rockefeller.
POETRY
In Case of Fire - Steven Sanchez
The Ecofeminist Immortal in Wax - Christell Victoria Roach
Hunger Drives The Body Into Imagination - Jess X Chen
Cinema of Extinction - B.B.P. Hosmillo
Island of the Goddess of Democracy - Henry Wei Leung
After the Storm - Jennifer Huang
The Year of the Cottonmouth - Crystal Boson
Black Episteme No 9: This is what I know about blood - Jonah Mixon-Webster
They: Origin and Cartography - Xandria Phillips
Conversation with Phillis Wheatley 2 - Tiana Clark
They Say Ithaca Isn't the Only Place Where Husbands Don't Come Home - Farah Ghafoor
Prayer to the Small God of Misnomers - Keith S. Wilson
Panhandle Gothic - Brad Trumpfheller
BE CAREFUL OF TRANSPARENT ANIMAL LIVING IN YOUR DRINKING WATER! - Momina Mela
The N-Word Has Polycephaly - Ajanae Dawkins
FICTION
Both I of You Run Was the Woman - Angelo Hernandez-Sias
Physics Test No. 3 - Lily Zhou
Year of Righteousness, Year of Confetti - Bonnie Chau
NONFICTION
Learning to be the Black/Body - Dave Harris
ART