A Forgotten Birthday
A mother waits for her son. New in poetry.
Sylvia and Ted
Reimagining Sylvia Plath’s life and relationship with Ted Hughes through poetry.
Finder's Keepers
“Honey, I’m a raindrop / Racing down your windowpane / And that sky is about to break.” – Zoe Jane Patterson looks for the missing person in the self.
Manifesto for the Satellite Kids 2
A dreamy new poem for the modern age.
On the Beach at Night Alone
A whimsical, dreaming young woman “knocks on the heart of another tree” in this poem by Ruobing Sabrina Zhao.
Midnight Salvation
New in poetry, by Ruobing Sabrina Zhao.
Summer is Not All That People Make it to Be
A surrealist prose poem.
Another Poem About Another Man
Tzy Jiun Tan frets over the “perfect Japanese knife slice” trepidation of new love.
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.