Special FeaturerbdAshlan Christensen, poetry, special feature

Ashlan Christensen: Chemical Moon

Special FeaturerbdAshlan Christensen, poetry, special feature
Ashlan Christensen: Chemical Moon

Front Porch

After Maggie Nelson

 

Sat on the porch last night.

The sky was brighter

than night should be, lit up

with city and smoking. I sit here

drenched in my impulse

to get rid of myself, suddenly,

without warning. Last night

you told me soft things,

sang me to sleep, slowly, quietly

voice shaking. Kissed my forehead.
And I guess there is a capacity

for this same lightness in me. I know this

because once I bleached my hair

until it burned white and thought

my outsides look like my insides.

It was nice to see them, a bright white

chemical moon but smaller,

less full.

Ashlan Christensen is a writer and teacher living in Denver, CO. Her work can be found under Ashlan Runyan in The Boiler and soon in Sidereal Magazine. She works primarily in essay and poetry.



Special Featurerbdkatixa espinoza, special feature, poetry

katixa espinoza: Confuse Thumbs for Cocks

katixa espinoza is a 20 yr old miami native, latinx writer residing in brooklyn, new york. she fulfills her art student quota by drinking one mocha coffee a day and likes to yell at people who don’t recognize their privilege. her works can be found on Sea Foam Mag, Textploit, and other places as well. she yells into the void at katixaespinoza.com

Special Featurerbdkatixa espinoza, special feature, poetry
katixa espinoza: Confuse Thumbs for Cocks
Special FeaturerbdKailey Tedesco, poetry, special feature

Kailey Tedesco: To Suck Dry

Kailey Tedesco's books She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publications) and These Ghosts of Mine, Siamese (Dancing Girl Press) are both forthcoming. She is the editor-in-chief of a Rag Queen Periodical and a performing member of the NYC Poetry Brothel. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. You can find her poetry featured or forthcoming in Prelude, Prick of the Spindle, Bellevue Literary Review, Vanilla Sex Magazine, and more. For more information, please visit kaileytedesco.com. 

Special FeaturerbdKailey Tedesco, poetry, special feature
Kailey Tedesco: To Suck Dry
Special FeaturerbdCarina Milena Maceira, poetry, special feature

Carina Milena Maceira: Loveless Identity

Carina Milena Maceira is a 19-year-old, first generation American of Cuban Spaniard/Colombian decent. Maceira was also primarily raised by her indigenous Mexican-Arab Persian step-family, further adding to her multicultural identity. Maceira grew up in America between the states of Florida, Virginia and Maryland. Today she resides in the Middle East as an English teacher in an Islamic Institute in the small country of Kuwait. Because of her traditionally conservative family and environment Maceira shares her work anonymously on social media accounts by the handle of C. Medusa and performs her work within the safe comfort of the open minded and liberal art, music and poetry community of Kuwait. 

Special FeaturerbdCarina Milena Maceira, poetry, special feature
Carina Milena Maceira: Loveless Identity
Special Feature, ArtrbdSandra Santos, poetry, special feature, photography, Nicolás Barbosa López

Sandra Santos: Unveiling

Sandra Santos is a poet, teacher, writer, and translator from Portugal born in 1994. She holds a B.A. in Languages and International Relations from University of Porto and got her Master’s degree in Editorial Studies at the University of Aveiro. As a translator, she has published her work in Portugal, Spain, and Latin America, working back and forth in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Her own poetic work can be found online at: http://sandrasantos-ss.blogspot.pt/.

Special Feature, ArtrbdSandra Santos, poetry, special feature, photography, Nicolás Barbosa López
Sandra Santos: Unveiling