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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
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