Archives: Publications

Cerulean Walker

"I didn’t / even cry at books until this year, / let alone a world I don’t really even want to be a part of."

Nicole Desjardins Gowdy

"Ophelia has words for her pain / she calls herself / survivor / she rises from the ashes of her former self"

Elsa Valmidiano

"I wasn’t exactly sure how abortions happened, except it was a word tossed around school grounds as easy as saying, 'Math.' It was an easy word. A common word."

Bibiana Krall

"This body is my universe, / but it has never been free."

Marek Kulig

"High time too that monarchs / are remonstrated / for their geometry- / non-conforming flight patterns."

Megan Markham

"PSAs from my school years reminding us to cut six pack rings, / more packaging than I asked for or know what to do with / covering us head to toe"

Jacob Schlote

"He says he ordered a kid’s meal to be just like you, but you aren’t old enough to understand. It still doesn’t completely sink in because you know there’s not a need to understand, only wanting to bask in the gloriousness of reliving the event."

jamilla vandyke-bailey

"and isn’t this beautiful? and frightening?/this beatbeatbeating beneath your wrists;/it’s delicate and wild and turbulent and here."

jamilla vandyke-bailey

"i miss holding that laughter inside my bones, / and shedding tears like moist clothes, / and echoing soundtracks with my own howls"

Joe Baumann

"And although a small blip in my growing up, who knows how the trajectory of my life that followed might have shifted had I not spent months dwelling on Kerri Strug and imagining what it would be like to meet her, to know her, to befriend her."