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June 2022
Cover Artist: Weshoyot AlvitreMonica SokI know why the sun is out today.
Because yesterday it rained.
- Courtney Faye Taylor
- Orlando White
- Jill Zheng
- Monica Sok
- Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
From this Issue
Poem
By Ae Hee Lee
When people ask where I’m from, where I’m really from, I ready my permutations. My mélange of autumnal streets, my obscure cities, the countries I found built on a mound of papers and tears, the pebble-sized universe occupying my left shoe—I want to tell them everything. I want to see how far we can go.
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Table of Contents
POEMS
- Esther Belin
- Jill Zheng
- Ae Hee Lee
- Fatemeh Shams
- Armen Davoudian
- Max Schleicher
- Cindy Juyoung Ok
- Rajiv Mohabir
- Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
- Monica Sok
- Tarik Dobbs
- Sarina Romero
- Romeo Oriogun
- Madeleine Wattenberg
- Qiang Meng
- Heather Nagami
- Orlando White
- Courtney Faye Taylor
- Shook
- Chad Bennett
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