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POETRY & PROSE

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I have cried three times this week.
CHEYENNE ASHE
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Wade’s Courage.
We say we don’t know what to say around them / they / us / he / his / she / her…
KRISTIN HUNT
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We Speak
Like ghosts of lands once stolen from ashes dust the thresholds of new beginnings — the end of what was that which…
HOKIS
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Baby — A Letter To My Younger Self
    __ Featured Image via Liv Bruce
IRENE SCHRADER
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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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Now I lay me down to sleep…
Every night I wonder why I am up and then the page scratches the pen or is it the pen scratches the…
KRISTIN HUNT
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The Idea of Separation
I hope marriage never takes the life out of my eyes like it did my mother, and my grandmother, or her mother…
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