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writing roundup:
POETRY:
- ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD SAYS: WHAT YOU’VE GOT IS VIRGIN CHARM & A KNIFE IN YOUR POCKET by Katie Condon
- Nashville by Tiana Clark
- Chrome by Paul Tran
- Ghazal for White Hen Pantry by Jamila Woods
- Bigly, Two Headed Slake and the mulatto is a serpent palindrome by Xandria Phillips
- Poem in Which the Writer Sees Himself in an Old Textbook, 1943 and Ode to the Belt by sam sax
- From the Desire Field by Natalie Diaz
- The Body of García Lorca by p.e. garcia
- Ode to Hushpuppy & Peripatetic by Joy Priest
- Not Because You Have To by Emily O’Neill
Black, Poured Directly into the Wound by Patricia Smith - Notes on the Below by Ada Limón
- Brothers by Omar Sakr
- Women’s Work by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
- Love Song to the Man Announcing Powwows and Rodeos by Kenzie Allen
- How To Get Over by t’ai freedom ford
- After My Mother Calls by Jeremy Clark
- Afield by Rita Dove
- Cattails by Nikky Finney
- enough food and a mom by francine j. harris
- In the Language by Shane McCrae
- Barbie Change Gets Her Hair Done by Victoria Chang
- Black Woods by Kevin Prufer
- untitled by Brenna Twohy
- Saguaros by Javier Zamora
- What Was Left of the Sestina after Looking at a Photo Album
of My Father’s Squadron by Brad Trumpfheller - Night Shift by Jericho Brown
- Dark Devotional by Rebecca Bratten Weiss
- Father Fragments (Or, Yellow Ochre) by Analicia Soleto
- Two Poems by Aricka Foreman
- Club 2718 & This is a review for Blue in Green by Miles Davis by Taylor Johnson
- Coverage by Julian Randall
- Ars Moriendi and Some Boys Aren’t Born At All by Logan February
- XV by Julio Serrano Echeverría, translated by José García Escobar
- Febrile by Gabrielle Octavia Rucker
- St. Francis Disrobes by Paige M. Lewis
- Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda— by Cynthia Dewi Oka
- you’ve always been a border simulator by Gabriel Dozal
- Chirality by Vanessa Angelica Villarreal
- Cardi B Tells Me About Myself by Eboni Hogan
- Ode to Lithium #6: Barometer by Shira Erlichman
- On Glorification by Siaara Freeman
- (Persephone’s Husband Is Not Important And He Says) and After the Curse Was Lifted, Midas by C. Bain
- The Dawn and Snow White’s Mother by Khaya “Khalypso” Osbourne
- Nomenclature by Kristin Chang
- Al Quds (Jerusalem) by Khalid Abu Dawas
- The Pieces We Are Not by Sarah Kay
- With my hands around the throats of my mother’s marigolds by Hafizah Geter
- Ji Haushi by Chekwube O. Danladi
- Cuba, 1962 by Ai
- A Memorable Fancy by Sina Queyras
- A Memory by Saeed Jones
- How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Incantation by Chris Abani
- Feet by Ross Gay
- There’s No Wrong Way to Eat a Reese’s by Jeremy Radin
FICTION:
- Bespoke by Zachary Doss
- The Quantum Theory of Suffering or Why I Look at the Moon by Natalie Diaz
- Girlies by Cara Dempsey
- Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong
- Who is Like God and Welcome by Akwaeke Emezi
- Night Wind by Eloghosa Osunde
- Domestic Violence by Madeline Ashby
NONFICTION:
- A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read by Ocean Vuong
- Hikikomori: Salt Constellations by Jennifer S. Chang
- Why Your Mother Can’t Drive by Cinelle Barnes
- My True South by Jesmyn Ward
CRITICISM/OTHER:
- Looking for Surprises in Senegal: photos by Jake Michaels; text by Kerri McDonald
- Women and Femmes Unite: A Structural and Political Analysis of Femininity by B.B. Buchanan
- A Refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major by Seo-Young Chu tw: rape
- A Discussion Re: Courage by Ashley C. Ford
- The Unlikely Hiker by Emily Prado with advice from Jenny Bruso
- You’re Not Overreacting by Imani Shanté
- Archiving While Black by Ashley Farmer
- Lil Wayne rhymes with suicide tw: death
writing roundup
Poetry:
- there is no separate survival by Shabnam Piryaei
- Cutting by Brionne Janae
- And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When the Rapture Comes by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
- On PrEP or on Prayer by sam sax
- Apology; Sweet Talk by Derrick Austin
- No is a Complete Sentence; Portrait of the Alcoholic Three Weeks Sober; the Straw is Too Long, the Axe is Too Dull by Kaveh Akbar
- Without Conferring, We Both Ask For a Smoke & Dagger by Emily O’Neill
- When Lucille Bogan Sings “Shave ‘Em Dry” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Where the Fired Body is Porous by Tiana Clark
- Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
- Social Death, An Address by Xandria Phillips
- A Bell Still Unrung by Safiya Sinclair
- Recurring Dream Wherein I’m Watching an Episode of Star Trek by Colette Arrand
- Manhattan is a Lenape Word by Natalie Diaz
- This City by Eugenia Leigh
- Barbershop by Phillip B. Williams
- Poet’s Sampler: b: william bearhart
- American Sonnet for Wanda C. by Terrance Hayes
- When the Therapist Asks You to Recount, You Have to Say It by Aricka Foreman
- Apologies from a Muslim Orphan by Tarfia Faizullah
Fiction:
- The Enchantment by Emily B. Cataneo
- When an Artist and a Novelist Let Their Creative Powers Loose on a Fabulous Apartment Filled With Art by Hanya Yanagihara
- The Mark of Cain by Roxane Gay
- Carry Me Home, Sisters of St. Joseph by Marie-Helene Bertino
- No Type of Good by Gabrielle Rucker
- Churches We’ve Broken Into by Julia Evans
Essays:
- When It Is Not Our World Anymore What Will We Hear: On Empathy by Rosebud Ben-Oni
- The Effects of White Supremacy are Non-Transferable by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- The Aqiqah by Kima Jones
- A Chorus of Hands by Mahogany Browne
- Women in the Fracklands: On Water, Land, Bodies, and Standing Rock by Toni Jensen
- What If: On Black Lives and Mental Health by Jodi Savage
- A Map of Lost Things: On Family, Grief, and the Meaning of Home by Jamila Osman
Criticism/Interviews/Hybrid:
- Hayao Miyazaki and the Art of Being a Woman by Gabrielle Bellot
- Fine Dining by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- Frank Ocean is Finally Free, Mystery Intact by Jon Caramanica
- What Makes a Celebrity Take Off His Shirt by Anne Helen Peterson
- I Hated Britney Spears Until I Saw Myself in Her by B. Pietras
- Robin Coste Lewis: Black Joy is My Primary Aesthetic
- Divedapper: Conversation with Jericho Brown by Kaveh Akbar
- VIDA’s Report from the Field: Getting Along Shouldn’t Be An Ambition by Jean Ho
- A Story about Discovery by Rachel Monroe (about detransitioning)
- Disability and Poetry: An Exchange
- He Lived by Syreeta McFadden (cw: lynching)
- The Problem with “Pussy” by Josephine Livingstone
- This Hair of Mine by Cynthia Harvey
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writing roundup
Poetry:
- Meditation on Aunt Shirley by M’Bilia Meekers
- Ode to Lithium #419: Perfect by Shira Erlichman
- Panhandle, Gulf by Cady Vishniac
- Portrait of the Alcoholic with Relapse Fantasy; River of Milk; Portrait of the Alcoholic Floating in Space with Severed Umbilicus; Despite My Best Efforts, Even My Prayers Have Turned Into Threats; Supplication with Rabbit Skull and Bouquet by Kaveh Akbar
- Briar Rose by Anne Sexton
- Any Other Name by Khadijah Queen
- Dream the Sea Shanty by Ada Limon
- The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood; Vespers by Derrick Austin
- The Moment I Saw a Pelican Devour by Paige Lewis
- Two Poems by Matthea Harvey
- Cornflowers by Brenda Cárdenas
- help by Danez Smith
- Courtship by Shelly Wong
- We Rowdy by Emily O’Neill
- Worry; Gambling Myths by sam sax
- Scavengers by Ocean Vuong
- To the Angelbeast by Eduardo C. Corral
- There is a Bird in My Mouth; Arygria; I Am with Child; You Are a Dark Body by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
- Topless in America by Nikky Finney
- Ghazal for Becoming Your Own Country by Angel Nafis
- The Plums by Anis Mojgani
- kaiser 1 & 2 by mud howard
Fiction:
- Rosario’s Jewel Box by Sarah Maria Medina cw: rape
- An Inventory at the End of the World by Joyce Chong
- Bootleg by Emily O’Neill
- Only the Lonely by Lisa Mecham
- Only Animals by Chelsea Sutton
- Rabbit Heart by Alyssa Wong
- Excerpt from the Mothers by Brit Bennett
- from Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi
- The Ghost of King Solomon by Samuel Ashworth
- The Healer by Stephanie Fields cw: assault
- A Diet of Worms by Valerie Valdes
- Successor, Usurper, Replacement by Alice Sola Kim
Essays:
- Miss Northeast by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
- Why I Can’t Quit Football by Frederick McKindra
- Out-Asianed by Vanessa Hua
- Ghost in the Corner by Tabitha Blankenbiller
- The Lord’s Supper by Kristen Arnett
- The Ibis and the Storm by Natalie Lima
- Melancholia by Dana Levin
- I Tried Smell.Dating and It Didn’t Stink by Arabelle Sicardi
- We, the Hunted: Dogs, Resistance, and Survival by Kelly Mays
- Kettle Holes by Melissa Febos cw: assault
Criticism / Interviews / Hybrid:
- Just Browsing: A Roundtable on Brows and Body Hair
- The Politics of Pockets by Chelsea G. Summers
- The Presumption of “Boyfriend” Clothes by Helena Fitzgerald
- A Conversation with Claudia Rankine by Bim Adewunmi
- When Delivery is Not a Luxury by Esmé Wang
- How Worshipping a “Mother Goddess” Can Disempower Women by Amelia Quint
- If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women by Meg Elison
- A Seat with Us: A Conversation between Solange Knowles, Mrs. Tina Lawson, and Judnick Mayard
- Why I’m Nonbinary But Don’t Use They/Them by Ashleigh Shackelford
- Again and Again and Again by Megan Giddings
- The Last Taboo: Why Pop Culture Just Can’t Deal With Black Male Sexuality by Wesley Morris
- Killing Like They Do in the Movies by Justin Phillip Reed
writing roundup
Poetry:
- A Violence by Nicole Sealey
- A Good Deed is Done for No Reason by Aziza Barnes
- Bad News, Again by Cameron Awkward-Rich
- The Leash and Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón
- Wedding Soup by Emily O’Neill
- Because There is Still a Sky, Junebug by Tarfia Faizullah
- Hymn to a Landlocked God by Meg Day
- Spice, Snails by Jules Jacob
- Still Life of Acme in Spring by Aricka Foreman
- Whirlpool by xtx
- I Want to Tell You Yes by Kallie Falandays
- Rift by Stacey Balkun
- heart by Dao Strom
- Afong Moy by Kristin Chang
- Pin the Tail on the Predator by Stevie Edwards
- In Hurt, Virginia by Rochelle Hurt
- Six Months After Contemplating Suicide by Erika L. Sánchez
- A Brief History of the Bikini by Caitlin Doyle
- Sentence and To a Straight Man by Edwardo C. Corral
- Beg by Franny Choi
- Barbie Chang Suite by Victoria Chang
- Bridal Pyre by Cori A. Winrock
- maghrib, new york city by Safia Elhillo
Fiction:
- I Still Want a Copy of That Photo by Tyler Barton
- At Sea by Ashley Hutson
- Pay Me by Zdravka Evtimova
- What You Pawn I Will Redeem by Sherman Alexie
- The Bearded Lady by Jess Zimmerman
- Out of the Strong, Something Sweet by Leesa Cross-Smith
- Sarah is Lacking in Some Departments by Lucie Britsch
- The Hummingbird Nest by Pascale Petit
- Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
- I Love Betty by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Essays:
- Mama Outsider: How I Learned the Definition of Obscene by Asha French
- Pacita by Melissa R. Sipin
- Resistance, Desire, and History: The Story of My Dreadlocks by Nicole Dennis-Benn
- Sentimental Education by Alexander Chee
- August 20th, 2016 by Jasmine Sanders
- Sour Water by Bassey Ikpi
- Taking My Father Back to Louisiana One Last Time by Natalie Baszile
- For the “Angry Arabs” Who Won’t Let Anyone Catch Them Crying by Jess Rizkallah cw: racism / genocide / colonization
- To Prey on Birds by Kira Jane Buxton cw: abuse / attempted assault
Criticism / Interviews:
- A History of Black Bartenders by David Wondrich
- Reports From the Field: White People Love Me: Dispatches From The Token by Morgan Parker
- In Defense of Villainesses by Sarah Gailey
- What Happens When Ballet Puts Black Lives at Its Center by Kaitlyn Greenidge
- How It Feels to Conquer Your Shame by Garrard Conley cw: rape / homophobia / gay-conversion therapy
- Perfume, Power, and God by Arabelle Sicardi
- There is No Better Pizza Than Drunk Pizza by Helena Fitzgerald
- Black Flag: On the History of the American Flag in Black Protest Art by Ezekiel Kweku
Took some time to reflect and make a personal piece this past week.
Women talk ourselves into needing less, because we’re not supposed to want more—or because we know we won’t get more, and we don’t want to feel unsatisfied. We reduce our needs for food, for space, for respect, for help, for love and affection, for being noticed, according to what we think we’re allowed to have. Sometimes we tell ourselves that we can live without it, even that we don’t want it. But it’s not that we don’t want more. It’s that we don’t want to be seen asking for it. And when it comes to romance, women always, always need to ask.
Willow & Jaden Smith photographed by Steven Klein for Interview Magazine
JADEN: It’s crazy, the sibling dynamic. I could’ve spent my entire childhood like, “I have to love this person.” And it becomes a chore. But our parents were never like, “You have to love them.” It was more like, “You have your life. He has his life. And when you guys want to come together, when you guys want to commune, that’s up to you.” And throughout us realizing ourselves and realizing each other, we just opened our eyes and were like, “Damn, you are the yin to my yang.” Not a lot of siblings have that opportunity, because they’re always being pushed together so much. They need their time apart in order to realize themselves and realize who they are.
PHARRELL: Has there ever been, like, some love-based competition?
JADEN: We never really felt competitive because Willow’s always been better than me at everything. There’s been no competition.
WILLOW: [laughs] Pharrell, that is so not true.



