Spring 2025 / Issue 37 By From the editor Non-Fiction Go Stare at a Wall By James DeGraaf Chasing Bones: My Summer as a Dinosaur Hunter By Henry Bourtin Fifteen and Fearless: Conquering Kilimanjaro By Emilia Lun Ephemerality By Rainey Reese Poetry The Presence of Absence By Anandi Gunda Water Theorem By Anna Popnikolova September By Indiana Plant Static By Emma Lopez Terms and Conditions By Tanisha Bose Boiling Point By Ramatu Audu Life of a 20 Dollar Bill By Juan Cruz Seasons’ Grasp By Luke Ross the summer before you leave By Lia Wang Seven, Seventeen, and Seventy By Eziz Hezretov The Most Important Thing a Trans Person Can do is Survive By Will Walters Faces of the Swan By Sophia Campbell Two times Dumb, Never By Moseka Ntiyia Fiction Almost Surfing By Padraic Dwyer Caroline Liddell By Nicole Hirt Different Moons, Different Skies By Zanchao Hao Eight Summers Ago By Jiyoo Choi The Memory Store By Chloe Lim Art Portrait of a Young Lady By Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel I’m Unique, Just Like Everybody Else; Tech Stress By Zishan Qiu Untitled By Aishani Thakur Narcissism By Sasha Beggs Floating Away By Michelle Chen A Summer Evening By Claire Hunsberger Isale-Eko By Mike Wheeler Book Review An Ode to Morrisson’s —Sula By Chaeeun Yoo Download Issue #37
January Poems 2025 By Poetry Elegy for a Ballerina/o By Thehara Ubayawardena my pappa real strong By Shubhan Mehta Collective Soul By Arianna Shaprow 7 times in which the word ‘father’ means nothing to me By Ioanna Bosneaga The Turning By Race Harish Recipe for Cinnamon Rolls By Snehal Bhadani Sometimes By Suhjung Kim contemplations from a reclusive farmer’s daughter, sitting at the kitchen table By Nabiha Ali growing pains, grating peels By Lia Wang broken By Maisarah Rahman ghazal for pancake house By Erin Chen varadero By Robina Nguyen Art Bending Alleys By Tony Pan Download January Poems 2025
December 2024 / Issue 36 By Non-Fiction What I’ve Lost, What I’ve Gained By Nathan Sorrentino Musings, while the blender whirs nearby By Kinjal Johri Beyond the Brink: The Enigmatic World of Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences By Kevin Hong Magical Milan By Kate Wolfson East of Jeju By Yumin Kim An Afghan’s Journey to a New Life in the U.S. By Rishab Subramanya My Monologue-The Rules of an Opinion By Naomi Beinart Poetry Grounding By Lydia Neeley Bibliophile at Lunch By Jenna Mather No One Knows By Lily Jefferson bird on a roof in the sun By Raphaelle Therrien a day like a fever By Olivia Hom Someday I’ll Grieve Sosi Audain By Sosena Audain Impending By Lotus Das-Hyland The Blues By Crislyn Lance A Stormy High By Hans Zhu ad astra per aspera* By Gemma Hayes My Grandfather Writes to my Grandmother from Vietnam By Lawson Lewis Abstraction of the Self By Jack He [My brother carries in raspberries from the garden] By Greer Engle-Roe Fiction Stained Glass By Alina Sidorova Haircuts and Hyssop By Ren Johnsue Firebug By Silvana Cantelmi Art Caroline By Grace Garacochea Cardboard Vintage Typewriters By Lillian Carter Forrest By Veronica Wang Candy Aisle By Sonja Xie The Weight of Feeling By Marwa Khan Reimagining Lake Superior By Ayeza Moheet Lemon Trio By Logan Weghorst Neon Paradise By Laura Anna Balla Lapse, Win Choy Market By Jack Khachatryan Lisboa Parks, Electrico 28 By Tony Pan Book Review A Small Place By Kashaf Ahmad Download Issue #36
November Poems 2024 By Poetry Cartography of Absence By Ari Jain see me as me not as she By Deelisha Trika summer lambs By Ema Bekic Back to Junction Boulevard By Dylan Fei cycles By Nadyne Sattar meeting with the moon By Robin Mikita February 15th By Jenna Mather self-portrait in my mirror By Sierra Elman A non-believer befriends faith By Kimaya Natekar you By Axen Anjum Aviary By Lily Jefferson how to love a black hole By Emily Ma A traveler, back home By Braden Booth Canceled By Alison Hwang Poem to a Michigan Cherry By Marguerite Flaig Titled By Leah Holman Art Blank Canvas, Reimagined By Le Wang the ballerina By Edith May Self-Portrait By Amy Pan Self-Made By Mile Qian Paths By Veronica Wang Download November Poems 2024
September 2024 / Issue 35 By Non-Fiction Transitoriedad By Yelaine Aguilar to the gunman By Ananya Venkateswaran Not Either Or By Yifei Kevin Niu All Because/ The Boy Who Cried Gun By Eden Harrison Anagrams of Identity By Lila Raj ChatGPT on Writing: Education’s Helper or Killer? By Harry Su Oh, mother By Jude Al-Mufti once more with feeling By Davina Jou Poetry To Be With Gaia By Abi Fauver Aphrodite Rebuilt By Jasmine Hummel Newell Ghazal for []. By Kyla Guimaraes a grieving girl’s crying log By Ashley Mo Accidental Birdwatching By Abby Ciona Linear Z By Rina Olsen Evaporation By Julia Volpp Goodbye to the Moon By Nicole Orejuela of ink and dreams By Urvi Goel Red Scare By Savannah Sisk 10 things to do before you die By Selena Zhang Ringleader By Marcellus Whetham American Sonnet for Inconceivable but Not Unexpected Deaths By Livia Daggett In Our Traveling Bathtub By Jenna Mather Plummeting Bird By Samantha Szumloz Fiction The Golden Fish, Retold By Khalila Soubeih Night Clerk By Mary Russell Grass Stains By Conner Wood The Perfect Shot By Ciana Tzuo Lettering By Ananya Mandrekar Art This Golden Age By Sophia Liu Crystalline Cobalt By Hans Gupta Splash By Jennifer Wan Ballerina By Adedeji John Flume Gorge in Lincoln, NH By Dante DeJong The Penumbrian Ball By Joseph Milne Lazy Afternoon By Claire Lin Graphite Portrait By Maddie O'Neill Book Review Book Review: Pet Sematary By Sanskriti Singh Download Issue #35
Summer 2024 By Poetry Spotify By Tane Kim Awful Growing Up By Klaryssa Dunwoody 67 in a 45 zone By Abigail Griffin mourning is a long morning By Zhao Yushan First Language Non-Fluency Syndrome By Ayanna Uppal two friends and I got haircuts on thursday By Caitlin Cruser Today, she is not Iskitimka By Sarah Yang Apricity By Janice Lee my mother’s breath By Leissa Romulus oran gaoil iteach By Eartha Davis Perhaps If The Traffic Light Doesn’t Change Neither Will We By Haynes Melchior The 1095 Experiment By Yufei Xian Because I’ve been blasting that Sabrina Carpenter song By Sally Young Warmth in Winter By Louise Kim Chalkboard Blossoms By Leah Wu Art The Performer By Sophia Lekeufack St. Bernadette By Rana Roosevelt Innocence, Food for Show By Michelle Chen Village Life By Nikita Juneja (Not) Quite Human By Emerson Chang Download Summer 2024