Antoinette Legnini, Artist Spotlight No. 29
“By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, [Martine] tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author…
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Flash No. 12 – Gary Singh
Reunited in the Fourth House By Gary Singh After leaving the BART station, I visit my Berkeley astrologer at her spooky wooden house near Rose and Milvia, where paint-peeled steps take me to a porch milieu of hanging plants, ancient wicker sectionals, and apathetic cats. Soon enough, the door opens, revealing those same clear […]
Read MoreJean Wolff, Artist Spotlight No. 28
“By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, [Martine] tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author…
Read MoreJeff Rivers, Artist Spotlight No. 27
“By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, [Martine] tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author…
Read MoreNaked: A New Poetry Collection by Abiodun Oyewole – Book Review No. 10
Naked: A New Poetry Collection Book Review by Gessy Alvarez Naked: A New Poetry Collection By Abiodun Oyewole with an introduction by Lyah Beth Leflore 2Leaf Press, November 2020 Distributed by University of Chicago Press 180 pages; $16.99 Abiodun Oyewole’s Naked: A New Poetry Collection is imbibed with wonderfully unadorned free-form poetics that transfigure the […]
Read MoreFlash No. 11 – Benjamin Davis
Slow Motion Man By Benjamin Davis His name was Eam. Reality shot him in slow motion. He worked in Spain, Salamanca, a bar called ‘El Submarino,’ the second bar, up the stairs. When he snapped open a beer, it took a minute. When he mixed a drink, it took ten. But, people waited, people […]
Read MoreFlash No. 10 – Soramimi Hanarejima
Toward Non-Volatile Memory By Soramimi Hanarejima Once again, you take us on “a short detour to see a memory”—meaning we’re going to visit some event in your past. So, I take a nap. To give you some privacy and get some respite from the strain time travel subjects the body to. I recline the […]
Read MoreFlash No. 9 – Catherine Martinez Torigian
Drag Racing By Catherine Martinez Torigian The last time I heard that sound I was a girl of fifteen, give or take a year. But it was only this morning that I realized it what it was, like a flash of heat lightning on a summer’s day, baffling until the thunder came. A man […]
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