1989
By John Murillo There are no windows here, and the wallsAre lined with egg cartons. So if we listenPast the […]
March 7, 2011
Poems
Enter the Dragon—Los Angeles, California, 1976
By John Murillo For me, the movie starts with a black manLeaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons Catching
Poems
Ode to Incense
By Tara Betts You shrinking limb turned ashwith orange eye lidded in smoke You skin of oils & herbs rolledinto
Poems
Belinda “Azucar” Gonzalez
By Tara Betts Sometimes Luis still makes me so angry,my tears feel like the hot heads of matchsticksChoking a headstone
Poems
When He Proposed
By Tara Betts When he proposed, I understood whymen fear commitment, the leash that breaksfor a bargain that costs too
Excerpts
Excerpt: “The Saving Work” from How to Escape from a Leper Colony
By Tiphanie Yanique A church is burning down. On a Caribbean island, in the countryside, up a road that might