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.
To me
In this new poem, Ruobing Sabrina Zhao writes after Kenneth Koch’s “To You.”
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.
Lackadaisical Girl
A summer poem on laziness, wandering, ice-cream and an idle girl.
I Swim Under the Bridge While They Drive on the Highway
Siqi just messaged. She told me how beautiful Yaxi highway is. Yaxi highway... of course I know Yaxi highway. It is the road connecting Chengdu to the beautiful town of Xichang. It’s where heaven on earth hides, according to the travel advertisements on TV...
money
An “open call for hopes and prayers”, Vamika Sinha explores New York as both capitalist hell and heaven.
movie
Inspired by the Tom Misch song “Movie”, a love poem by Vamika Sinha.
new york
A romp of a poem showcasing the sounds, noise, music of New York City.
Paterson by Jim Jarmusch Is My Favorite Horror Movie.
A film review as a poem, Arthur De Oliveira considers this unusual Jim Jarmusch movie.
For Sabina
“I want to split each person I meet with a scalpel / Like a surgeon, and let the galaxies come pouring out” – Zoe Jane Patterson seeks out a life lived like artwork.
Masturbation
A look at one’s own sins, new fiction where “masturbation is a lot like dream-making.”
The Catch up Recipe Poem
Arthur De Oliveira explores the creative process in this unusual form. .
With You I Breathe
“My mother is the greatest feminist I know” – a daughter learns and unlearns the manifestos passed down to her by birth.
The Poet
“But if Rupi can rake in the money with line breaks and / Taylor’s feminism can inspire naïve joy / Maybe I still qualify as underground music…” – take a look inside Tzy Jiun Tan’s poetry book.
Innocence Lost
“My heart is a blow-up doll fucked loose” – what does a young girl gain and sacrifice as she grows up into a woman?
I am unfortunately sentimental
"How can you be such a slut for accommodation?" asks Anita Shishani in a new poem on home and belonging.