Issue #2: Lullaby, Chen Chen
Lullaby ———————– More of Chen Chen’s work here.
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Issue #2: Family, Chen Chen
Family ——– Chen Chen is a University Fellow in poetry at Syracuse University, where he also serves as Poetry Editor for Salt Hill. His work has appeared/is forthcoming in Connotation […]
Issue #2: Write a Letter to Your Mother About Your Longest Winter, Chen Chen
Write a Letter to Your Mother About Your Longest Winter If writing had any real power, I could write my mother a letter that said, No second heart surgery because […]
Issue #2: To The Common Tongue, Chen Chen
To The Common Tongue ————- more of Chen Chen’s work here.
Issue #2: “Nǐ kǒu kě ma?”, Chen Chen
“Nǐ kǒu kě ma?” (Xiamen, China 2008) I sit with my grandmother & watch a Coca Cola commercial on TV, another tie-in with […]
Issue #2: Citizenship, Chen Chen
Citizenship My brothers & I are responsible citizens. We know to protect the cake. The cake knows we are its protectors. If it did not allow its cakeself to be […]
Issue #2: .orion in december, N.L Shompole
.orion in december My grandfather is a giant of a man, big bones, big voice, big heart. Last December we sat under the pink sky and watched the stars come […]
Issue #2: My Father’s Hands, Irene Velarde
My Father’s Hands My father’s hands can’t play the piano. Too strong, too scarred to stretch for full octave, his fingers begin in hard work, fall short of sunset over […]
Issue #2: There is a Pond Behind my Parents’ House, Ellyn Touchette
When I was born, it was a river, so built a dam. Rocks and sticks, stacked and mud-mortared until the stream did not move. This is how a living thing […]
Issue #2: Palm Tree Plastic, Ramon Hernandez
Palm Tree Plastic Missing seats in my birthday cake like, forced accidents make me take family for granted when the candles get lit, I mean like, I didn’t awknowledge their […]
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