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SON OF BYFORD is a meandering mining of meaning from the memory of many middle passages. This collection refracts 1970’s shades of Black and blues that give way to hip hop, post-millennium tensions, and godless queer queryings, informed by love, con...
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IN BETWEEN PLACES lyrically explores family mythology and the fallibility of memory. The poems act as mile markers in a Black woman’s literal and figurative journey across decades and across the country, in a search for home in different cities—and ...
We are the Fierce Vulnerability Network, a constellation of direct action teams positioned at the intersection of racial healing and climate justice. Fueled by fierce vulnerability, the power of emergence, and the promptings of our own vocations, we...
LOVE, LYRIC, AND LIBERATION is a collection of reflections, epiphanies, and warnings for those who find themselves existing in the intersection of blackness, femininity, art, and resistance. These poems and essays pay homage to our ancestors while o...
Las culturas nahua del México antiguo tenían que in xochitl in cuicatl, flor y canto, la poesía, la palabra inspirada era lo único que perduraba porque decía verdad. CHALCHIHUIXOCHITL, FLOR DE PIEDRA VERDE, FLOWER OF JADE es un intento de captar las...
Rooted in a legacy of social movements for change, East Oakland youth and students from Urban Promise Academy in the Fruitvale district have created a social justice club known as Warriors for Justice. Over the last five years, they have compiled po...
Arturo Mantecón, translator and bibliophile, chances upon a strange leather-bound book found in a vast private library. Chaotic poetry. Grotesque images. But who, exactly, is the author? Is it José Primitivo Charlevoix, or someone else? Mantecón sea...
SORROWLAND ORACLE by Ayodele Nzinga is a compendium of spells, incantations, prayers, and their translations into the event of being Black in modernity while standing at the crossroads of revolutionary transformation and the birthing of a new paradi...
DOWN THE FOGGY STREETS OF MY MIND is an ode to those of us who live with Dissociative Disorders such as PTSD and DID. It is an unapologetic anthem for survivors of sexual violence to rid themselves of being shamed and blamed in silence. When we tell...
FOOL[ISHLY OPTIMISTIC] by Katie Aliféris is a deep-dive into soul-shaking, life-changing love. It is an invitation to own, honor, and process the truths of our bravest and most beautiful feelings of the heart; from the very beginning of affection th...
HELL/A MEXICAN is an appreciation of the tragicomedy that is existing on American soil with foreign roots. These stories shed light on the boundless experience of living and learning through your identity. This collection, much like us, reaches for ...
HELLO JOY is a blissful dive into the current of sorrow and ecstasy which make up the cycles of our depression. This collection is an ode to all the simple moments of pleasure that pull us back to the shoreline, that despite our surmounting darkness...
HOT THICKET is a poetic journey through interpersonal and societal wildfires. With the turn of each page, the heat slowly rises as small children cry out against the patriarchy, modern-day colonizers are held in check, and the planet itself is given...
LOSS AND OTHER RIVERS THAT DEVOUR charts the evolution of one son’s grief as he reconciles his identity with the expectations of his late father. In this journey of becoming, Gustavo Barahona-López struggles with and is shaped by loss and its many h...
PHOENIX SONG has many recurring themes—non-binary gender, queer and bi+ sexuality, and childhood and psychiatric trauma. As the traumas resonate within the speaker, we understand them as the root of mental health struggles—rather than clinical, prob...