Manifesto for the Satellite Kids 2
A dreamy new poem for the modern age.
Summer is Not All That People Make it to Be
A surrealist prose poem.
Onions
A woman’s life is taken over by a camera. New in fiction, a Foucauldian romance.
Antagonism
A satirical short story about ants, fascists, and genocide.
Alien
“I’m caught on the hook like a / Gasping fish and then laid on ice” – Tzy Jiun Tan navigates the city as an outsider, a woman, what makes her “alien.”
Lady Rocket in Israel
Ruobing Sabrina Zhao traverses across cities and cultures, and ponders the mysterious “Lady Rocket”
He Talks of Growing Pains
Amal Al Shamsi considers her Emirati ancestry in this new poem.
Prince Charming Has a Little Fat Horse
“I am too woman to be yet another woman you / Barge into. Surprise surprise. I have removed the welcome mat and replaced it with / A bed of knives” - laying out the terms in the face of a new relationship.
In That House On a One-Way Street
“I can’t hear myself through the thumbtack / burying itself tenderly behind my teeth” - how does it feel on the precipice of trust?
Inheritance
New in poetry, by Tzy Jiun Tan.
No Time For Talking
A house party, and the dare of desire.
A Newspaper Adaptation
New in poetry, by Arthur De Oliveira.
A Documentary Poem: Stand Up Comedy is Not Funny.
A wry, formally experimental poem by Arthur De Oliveira.
Curdling
Looking back on a past love.
whole foods
Vamika Sinha's new poem gets knee deep into the late stage capitalist American dream.
A Zoologist had to Move to Kunming, Yunnan, China.
New in fiction, by Arthur De Oliveira.
Muskoka
“My lungs are a juice-box / With no liquid left and he’s still thirsty” - Zoe Jane Patterson goes back to Ontario, Canada.
You Grew Up
Seeing your family in a new light, and all the cracks you were too young to see before.
self-ish
“In a TV show, I’d be a supporting character you might feel conflicted about. I have spent too many moments of my life aspiring to be white” - inspired by Lyn Heijinian, Vamika Sinha prods at encapsulating identity in writing in this new prose poem.
Television Romance
“Yours is a face for the magazines / I wish I was your phone’s front camera to see every angle / Romantic surveillance” - a new love poem by Tzy Jiun Tan, inspired by Pale Waves and The 1975.