Poetry Suite by Fiona Chamness
“Belly, you roll-eyed saint, cloud
of blood, coil of convulsing wire.”
Promise Land by Lydia Panas
“These are my feelings, learned within the home as well as public expectations.”
A Bipolar Child by Pamela Carter
“I was seen as an exceptionally bright but difficult child rather than one with a treatable mental illness”
Day of the Dead by Michael Schwarz
A journey through Dia de los Muertos in Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
In My Here, In My Now, In My Body by Christie Tate
“This was goodbye to the tethers of repression and approval and virtue.”
She’s Really Let Herself Go by Jen Violi
“Let myself go on and rise from violation, from something stolen from me and my body”
Becoming Salt by Dario Calmese
“At what point do we move beyond redemption to condemnation?”
Warm-blooded Animals by Kathleen Lane
“Liddy, you’re either going to be a scientist, a nurse, or a cold-blooded murderer.”
The Ping Pong Magician’s Assistant by Vix Gutierrez
“These women make a stark parody of the exploitation of female sex”
Poetry Suite by Scherezade Siobhan
“dusk’s mussed-up sheaves curl for hours into the straw-plaited bylanes
of our old neighborhood.”
Haunted by Kristin Farr
“used as a tool across race and time to create — and preserve — extreme social stratification”
Photographer Feature: Joshua Zirschky
“Bearing witness to the human condition… on a global scale.”