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THE ARTS

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POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Pan[dem]ic
Featured Image: Lindsey Wasson for Reuters You are a mental patient with a Master’s degree and an absentee ballot Driving at 80…
GINA ATANASOFF
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Find Me
Featured Artwork: KwangHo Shin Find me in those torn up pages filled with empty words sitting at the bottom of my drawer.…
ANEESHA SARAN
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
viral
I have cried three times this week.
CHEYENNE ASHE
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
SomeBody
Featured Artwork: Arina Tsumbaluk When you say “body”, I wish our minds didn’t drift right down To what our consciousness does  When…
SANJANA KARTHIK
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Shattered Mirror
Featured Artwork: Lesi Johnson Dear mom, There are so many things I’ve wanted to tell you, but I’ve never made the time…
VAANI SAI
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Stereotype
Featured Artwork: Louisa Cannell Our color, age, and religion shall not define Dictate our image  Or way of life We are humans…
SANJANA KARTHIK
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Sindh: Land of the Lost
How many mothers, how many children? How many girls, how many bodies? How many years of Barbarity Hunger Undue Thirst Tragedy Obliteration?…
ALIZAH HASHMI
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
how to be a conservative.
be a white woman give up my voice love my man and family harder and longer  than any other choice get on…
KRISTIN HUNT
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Wade’s Courage.
We say we don’t know what to say around them / they / us / he / his / she / her…
KRISTIN HUNT
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
We Speak
Like ghosts of lands once stolen from ashes dust the thresholds of new beginnings — the end of what was that which…
HOKIS
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Baby — A Letter To My Younger Self
    __ Featured Image via Liv Bruce
IRENE SCHRADER
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Am I Broken?
I once was mistaken for beautiful I decided not to use my voice and the public was forced to read my face…
KRISTIN HUNT

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