Contributors Page
Yewande Akinse
yewande.me
Yewande Akinse is a poet and the author of two poetry collections titled, 'A tale of being, of green and of ing' (2019) and 'Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories' (2016).
From Kigali with love
Poem
Jide Badmus
jidebadmus.com
Jide Badmus is an engineer, a poet inspired by beauty and destruction; he believes that things in ruins were once beautiful. He is founder of INKspiredNG, Poetry Editor for Con-scio Magazine, a mentor in the SprinNG Fellowship, and sits on the board of advisors for Libretto Magazine
A Breakfast of Birdsongs in Anambra
Poem
Bridge
Poem
Ojú Ẹ̀jẹ̀
Poem
Christina Chin
Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. She is 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest and 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photohaiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan's prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.
you are here
Collaborative poem
Shome Dasgupta
@laughingyeti
Shome Dasgupta is the author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, the novels The Muu-Antiques (Malarkey Books), Cirrus Stratus (Spuyten Duyvil), and Tentacles Numbing (Thirty West), and a poetry collection, Iron Oxide (Assure Press). His writing has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, New Orleans Review, Jabberwock Review, American Book Review, Arkansas Review, Magma Poetry, and elsewhere. He lives in Lafayette, LA and can be found at www.shomedome.com and @laughingyeti.
A Day Dripped Day
Poem
Jaz Gómez
@unswayedmermaid
Jaz Gómez is a nonbinary (they/he), Puerto Rican, singer-songwriter based in Boise, Idaho. Their music blends folk vocals with New Wave inspired synths and creative samples to produce a melodramatic, motif-rich sound.
CICADAS
Song
Esther Grover
My work explores isolation, anger, grief, love, and silly little creatures. I live somewhere between digital and analog, combining processes across media. I love tactile objects, the internet, and the artistic possibilities of both.
party 4 u
3 color risograph print, digitally edited
Untitled
Collaged ink and colored pencil drawings
Kathy Guo
@lyrewing
I love to explore mythological motifs in my work, and to create scenes that feel surreal but authentic.
Brink
Digital, 1100 x 750 px
C.D. Jones
C.D. Jones is a Black poet studying design and creative writing at Fordham University where she is recognized as the Reid Family Prize Winner of 2023. Her work—centering on girlhood and family bonds—is featured in Nighthawk Literature and Bricolage Journal.
marfa & poltergeist
Poem
Ariella Kissin
Ariella Kissin grew up in Queens, attended Kenyon College, and currently lives in Azerbaijan where she teaches English as a Fulbright Fellow. She writes songs and poems that tease bittersweetness, nostalgia and the present moment. Her work is forthcoming in BreakBread Magazine.
In a Corner of the Caucuses
Poem
Maame Marful
@_a_morganite
Morganite is an experimental young digital artist and graphic designer from Ghana. Her work focuses on bringing retro designs to life in a modern world, but she describes her work as afrosurreal and afroexperimental - how she views the world through her perspective. She is mostly inspired by the fashion, music and lifestyle of the 20th century, and is fueled by the works of David Carson and Paula Scher to create broadcast her love for retro design.
X Marks The Spot
Digital, 16 cm x 12 cm
Penny Molesso
pennymolesso.com
penny molesso is a transmedia artist and writer from arkansas. they received their MFA from the university of nebraska-lincoln in 2023.
Issue 07 Cover
Digital
Uchechukwu Onyedikam
Uchechukwu Onyedikam is a Nigerian creative artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. His poems have appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Brittle Paper, Poetic Africa, Hood Communists and in print anthologies. Christina Chin and he have co-published Pouring Light on the Hills (2022).
you are here
Collaborative poem
Forrest Russell
@4rest.russell
Forrest Russell is a multidisciplinary artist based out of Montreal, Quebec. Russell is interested in exploring various ways of logging movement. Many of his works capture this through the accumulation, collaging and archiving of objects and images. These collected timestamps act as evidence of our everyday habitual patterns that we as a society often overlook. This process is a meticulous and time-consuming curation. How these pathways intertwine and connect is at the core of Russell’s research aiding him in tracing the trajectory of the world around him.
Moments of playfulness in the sliding
Coloured Pencil, Collage, Writing
Not Perfectly Placed
Digital collage
Bobby Parrott
Bobby Parrott is radioactive, but for how long? This queer poet's epiphany concerns the intentions of trees, and now his poems enliven dreamy portals such as Tilted House Whale Road Review, Rabid Oak, Diphthong, Neologism, and elsewhere. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his partner Lucien, their top house plant Zebrina, and his hyper-quantum robotic assistant Nordstrom.
Our Miniscule Selves on a Map of Colorado
Poem
Sritama Sen
@papenathys
Sritama, Alo to her friends, is a trans sapphic poet who grew up in Kolkata, West Bengal. She completed her undergraduate and master's at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and has had her work published in international various zines. Her poetry explores themes of trans identity and queerness in a Bengali context.
Chorus of the Saltwater Mermaids (Now Extinct)
Poem
