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Blue Black Berries

Listen, I'm not supposed to talk about this. It's supposed to be closeted, absolutely. Unless, of course, you have at least one black parent. Except, of course, you know at least one black person (intimately). more »

Nonfiction

Solo

I walked into the bar, my entrance much like that clichéd scene in old Westerns where the stranger pushes open the swinging doors of a saloon as the music stops and the patrons stare. The record that played inside the lounge hadn’t stopped, but... more »

Fiction

Crummy Piazza

We are too dark for this town. We come from far away. Humble glove makers from the rain-shadow side of the volcano. For twelve hundred years our family lived in the same small place. Rain, soot, rain. No sun for the glove makers. Lots of drinking... more »

Short Short

The Third Reader

The third reader on my thesis committee is an albino crocodile. With his white skin and liquid red eyes, Dr. Croc, Ph.D. would make a nice pair of boots or a stylish suitcase for a rich, fat Texan. more »

Features

The 25 Books Project

When the New York Times released its list of the best 25 American novels of the last 25 years, the list that contained only two women, one of whom was the only writer of color on the list, we felt angry. So we compiled this alternative list. more »

Nonfiction

How to Be a Good Chinese-Jewish Hapa

Pause at the checkboxes. Hover above them, blue ballpoint pen in hand, as you read the choices offered. After your name, address, and social security number, the Common Application for Undergraduate College Admission requests one last piece of... more »

Longer Poetry

Peeing in Punjabi

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Poetry

5 Poems

The Floating Television In Old Havana the first television drifted from home to home. Payment plans were a new... more »

Featured Artwork

5 Pieces