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Thank You for Coming to My TED Talk by Sadie Maskery
On death.
1976, in the Green House by Moni Brar
Glimpses of a Punjabi–Canadian immigrant’s life in the 1970s.
Love we can afford by Lorelei Bacht
Unbearable thoughts of a beautiful past.
tide by Sadie Maskery
What is left, when life goes out to sea.
The Berry Pickers by Moni Brar
Foil-wrapped roti and lidless ice cream pails mark life in the raspberry field.
How New York’s Butcher Girls Run their Meat Omakase Subscription Service by Cleo Henry
Butch queer desire is found and scattered again through internet images.
But I never made it to Sicily by Lorelei Bacht
What it takes to never quite make it there.
Rendezvous by Fran Fernández Arce
The body becomes an urban landscape.
gardens around the globe by Sameeya Maqbool
Sameeya’s poetry explores her experience of cultural hybridity as a British Pakistani woman of Islamic faith.
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Onomatopoeia of Lost Words by Maryam Gowralli
Maryam draws inspiration from her diasporic Trinidadian-Indian and Indonesian tribal heritage.
Portra by the Sea by Autumn Stiles
What of the fisherman skulks / in your heart? / What husks of hull sit rusting / ironed dull by sea over / sand over sea?
Tess and Friends Try On Selves Like Swimsuits by Dia Roth
We try on bodies—like them, long / for them—then try others. Somewhere / between hunger and earnest thirst, / we shapeshift.
Haud Yer Wheesht (Hold Your Tongue) by Lindz McLeod
Love leaves me whole, / a pockmarked moon. / Pared wounds knitted together / by chewing ants, each / champing tiny jaws over my flesh.
Anorexic Erotic Dream by Becca McGilloway
In a bathtub / rimmed in lime / basil salts, I take / a spoon