Vol. 51 Issue 3

  • Saturn Returning to Mami Wata


    By Alisha Acquaye Track 1: Offering (Intro) Mymom saw Mami Wata decades before she dreamed of me. She found her at twelve years old. The number…

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  • How to Sky-Bury Your Father Tongue


    By Samyak Shertok One of the rooms is haunted the Resident Poet tells me, handing the key. From my studio, the Gihon is green and barely…

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  • The Blue Cane


    By Michael M. Weinstein I bought it at LexCare Pharmacy, on the corner of Lexington Avenue and East One Hundredth Street. It was the most—all right,…

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  • Ms. Daylily


    By Xujun Eberlein The Chinese emperor who died one year before the Common Era began was a man in love with another man named Dong Xian. According…

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  • My Journey with Race: A Patriarch and His Portrait Shape Five Generations


    By Lisa Argrette Ahmad It’s good for you, my parents always said, when shipping me and my brother off to spend summers in rural Mississippi. We…

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  • Rabbit


    By Nikki Ervice When Willie is in seventh grade a killer starts hanging around. Bodies wind up beside the creek that runs through the low parts of…

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  • Rewards and their delivery systems


    By Rajnesh Chakrapani The last thing my wife says to me today. “You can do a lot more than order cables.” We choose the wrong Starbucks.…

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  • Simple Animal


    By Pallavi Wakharkar His eyes were the pale color of skinned grapes, the laugh lines around them like the three-pronged tracks of some long-legged bird. In my…

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