Special FeaturerbdCarina Milena Maceira, poetry, special feature

Carina Milena Maceira: Loveless Identity

Special FeaturerbdCarina Milena Maceira, poetry, special feature
Carina Milena Maceira: Loveless Identity

Loveless Identity

 

paper apartments/ paper furniture/ solid anxiety/ still humbled by homelessness/ faceless idols/ faceless saviors/ I converted in a language I couldn't read/ to paint a nude with justice is to make love to it first/ god and your lover are one and the same/ heaven and home are one and the same/ they tell me I am only good enough for the option of one/ they expect me to marry what cannot pronounce my name without making it sound like consent and understanding are foreign practices/ homeless/ religionless/ loveless/ all sound like the same syndromes for a body without warmth/ hearth/ love 

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. 

 Maceira's work is mostly based off of the perspective and struggles of her controversial identity. From living in the states as a young women of multiple marginalized backgrounds or finding herself in the Middle East only to struggle harder with loving herself. Maceira's poetry is most times multilingual and touches on Latinx and Arab identity, Muslim and Catholic identity, toxic masculinity, toxic religion, PTSD, bisexuality, fetishism, colorism, substance abuse, diaspora community, mental health and inter-sectional feminism. 

Special FeaturerbdSage Curtis, special feature, poetry

Sage Curtis: Drowning Daddy Issues

Sage Curtis is a Bay Area poet and MFA candidate at the University of San Francisco. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and she performs it whenever possible. Recently, she's been interested in the glamour and grit of addiction, and places we find it unexpectedly. You can find more of her work at sagedaniellecurtis.wordpress.com

Special FeaturerbdSage Curtis, special feature, poetry
Sage Curtis: Drowning Daddy Issues
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 FeaturerbdJoan McNerney, poetry, special feature

Joan McNerney: Beware

Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Warriors with Wings, Blueline, and Halcyon Days.  Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals, and numerous Kind of A Hurricane Press Publications have accepted her work.  Her latest title is Having Lunch with the Sky and she has four Best of the Net nominations. 

Special FeaturerbdJoan McNerney, poetry, special feature
Joan McNerney: Beware