Sanika Phawde is an illustrator, animator, and comix artist working between Mumbai and New York City. She makes zines to cope with life. She also goes by @thejackfruitslayer
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Letter to a First-Time Admit
damn the children’s wing.
Mizuki Nishiyama
“Nostalgia” | Mixed Media on Canvas (2018) “1 Quarter Not Yet Whole” Acrylic on Canvas (2017) “Friends” Acrylic on Wood (2016) Mizuki Nishiyama is a painter currently based in New York City and a […]
Poetry By Charlotte Slivka
I am too bothered to see correctly
“The Writer Who Is Talking Is Not the Same Person Who Writes the Books”
May, 1989. Horacio Castellanos Moya is working as a journalist in Mexico, reporting in exile on the civil war in El Salvador. His debut novel, La diáspora (released in the US for the first time […]
Poetry by Joris de Graaf
Mother recalls dead cells before and after my time.
Poetry by Deandra Brunson
PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR MY SKIN
Family Ties
her moonlit coat was blue
“Chips and Salsa Will Always Have a Place in Our Hearts and Bodies”
If anything, the hat is God’s intervention, through my hands.
How Baseball Brought Me Home
history is made up of the things that didn’t happen just as much as the ones that did.
The Birth of a Reader
I dropped my things and immediately cracked the first hundred pages. It was classic Knausgaard: endless descriptions of diapers changed, emails checked, and cigarettes smoked.
Poetry by Stü
“America”
Double Exposure
parenthesized by a stream of repudiation
Poetry by Carré Kwong Callaway
Tragic cases of avian behavior
Poetry by Aubrianna McCarter
Mother Nature wants revival
Poetry by Victoria Iglesias
the opposite of lifeless
Brenda Rodriguez
Self-reminiscence is my senior Thesis Collection used to explore my personal identity as an individual with a multicultural upbringing. The silhouettes and hues reflect a hybrid Mexican- American culture which is seen through the textile […]
From History to Poetry, and Back Again (Pt. Two)
You can’t write the book that you think other people wanna see. It’s not worth it.
From History to Poetry, and Back Again (Pt. One)
Tyehimba Jess earned his BA from the University of Chicago and his MFA from New York University. He is the author of leadbelly, a biographical poetry collection about the history of the blues musician, and […]