Three communists at a table Discuss the future of planet Earth. Your family back in Vietnam Are struggling, the rice is drowning, No...

The smartest person in the room, McKenzie King, tugged at her pencil skirt and unconsciously puffed a breath from the side of her mouth...

My mother’s voice, a hymn of Haiti, Resonates in the rhythm of discipline, Each note a commandment, Each beat a boundary.   I dance...

1.     Pine needles sprinkled down like confetti. 2.                                    -prom closed with reflective confetti. 3.    ...

My dad taught me how to ride a bike.  I was old enough to have opinions about how this all should happen—firstly, that I be well-prepared...

The summer I was lost, my grandmother gave me black cherry ice cream always two scoops, every night, and we’d sit on the porch in the...

I cut the flowers for a still life,                                     Smiling on the table top hunting joy;                            ...

I had been meaning to take a few dresses and rompers to the dry cleaners. I had rented three dresses to try on for my friends’ wedding...

She is a superstar, she is an indie darling. I know this sounds like a contradiction, but I can assure you that it isn’t. Her last album...

Stubborn dandelion, yellowed brilliance unaware that it’s outstayed the world’s welcome, soaked in still morning light with a pair of...

my eyes lock with my eyes two black holes, duplicated suspended in space and time.   i blink — and the self-portrait shifts late sun...

Three months. Fourteen days. One hour. Nineteen minutes. That’s how long it’s been since you broke up with me. I remember precisely...