"Fish Carcass" by Vi Khi Nao

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "Vi Khi Nao’s sixteenth book Fish Carcass (2022) is a poetic Petri dish of lived experience."

"Refusenik" by Lynn Melnick

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "I don’t remember the first touch or the first comment when I was a girl that conjured me as a woman."

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"Slim Confessions" by Sarah Minor

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "Here’s a slim confession: I have asked the last two men I loved to spit in my mouth, and neither one obliged."

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Suffer the Lilies

Joni Tevas | NONFICTION | "CRAWLED SLOWLY DOWN the rows, picking stones. Some said the devil sowed them every winter, a thing she knew..."

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Self as Substrate

Jason Bulluck | ENGAGE | "Norman invokes the fungal in her read of Black fungibility. And for Norman, the near homonym is critical."

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Impure Whiteness of Noon & I'm Tired of Talking About Myself

Yanique Norman | ART | "An attempt to flesh out Hemings’s emotional self by presenting a deeply complicated woman."

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