THE ARTS

Featured Illustration: Shehzil Malik They ask me Are you fasting? Then look on with suspicion When I say no Waiting for some…

Featured Image: Laura Shannonhouse We are gathered here today The Masked Priest’s voice booms To celebrate the life Of this straight self…

Featured Image: Jernej Graj Dear Straight Self I wish you had known many things Though I know you needed to stumble Blindly…

Featured Illustration: Danielle Brooks, ‘Black Woman’ I try on masks and coats, Trying to find the right face and skin Lest they…

Featured Illustration: Emilia Khan Trigger Warning: Abuse. . . . The way your hands move As you gracefully go about Light on…

Featured Image: Nathan Dumlao Derek Chauvin is Guilty of second-degree murder Guilty of third-degree murder And guilty of second-degree manslaughter. Are the…

Featured Image: Ray Hennessy Let our hearts unlock And our skin touch time Grant life’s movements Life’s changes  To uphold on our…

Featured Image: Billy Huynh I always wondered what it would be like, playing house with the person you love. Our imagination works…

Featured Image: Guilherme Stecanella I’ve learned I don’t want to be loved like the world is ending Because in that moment You’d…

She’s silent at the dinner table That’s decorated with dishes she makes She listens to the arguments Gently smiling and the points…

Featured Image: Lacie Slezak This birthed body Put upon the library shelf. Fiction or non-           The perpetual,…

Featured Image: Cinyee Chiu I forgive for myself And I forgive myself   I forgive the world And perhaps it can too…