ISSUE VI | WINTER

table of contents

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

meet the writers and artists

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MASTHEAD FOR ISSUE VI

meet the people behind the issue

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EDITOR'S NOTE

words from editor in chief tyler tsay

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POETRY

Late Note - Katy Kim

Malone, Florida - Lyrik Courtney

History of Boy & Jinn - Hazem Fahmy

Bop for a Black Man Caged in the Congo and the Bronx - Candace Williams

Ode to Enclaves - Chrysanthemum Tran

Post-Election Song of Myself - Cynthia Dewi Oka

ON PLANET EARTH WE TOUCH OURSELVES - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

dhuhr, new york city - Safia Elhillo

schizophrenia and i wait for entry to the psych ward - Gabriel Ramirez

BEACHDREAM - Alex Zhang

Rush Hour - Jonathan Louis Duckworth

a trip to central park (the stages of re-assimilation) - Alex Huang

The Body Is Not a Thing To Escape - Hari Alluri

No Accident - Christina Im

What She Said - Pritha Bhattacharyya

What matters - Kayti Lahsaiezadeh

Parting Hymn - Kathryn Hargett

Everywhere and Here Too - Vievee Francis

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PROSE

He Opens the Door and Fire Comes Out - Marlin M. Jenkins

Form, Order, Distance, Citrus - Catalina Ouyang

The Winter Poem - Joe Bartenhagen

Security Deposits - Claire Oleson

SPELL BOUND - Anne Riesenberg

Dad - Emily Peebles

How You Grow Up - Jamie Uy

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ART

hold darker, a series - Corinne Singer

Dramatis Personae - Qistina Khalidah

There Are Places (People) That Claim You - Brigitte Wolf

River - Eleanor Spiess-Ferris

Scan 6 - Alex Mediate

Slide in Dolores Park - Philip Harris

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cover art 1: "santa monica" by alex mediate.

cover art 2: "hold darker ii" by corinne singer.

design and layout by talia flores & grace li.

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