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  • VOLUME 11:
  • Editor’s Note
  • POETRY
    • Fat Edwards
    • Art of the Itamae
    • I Once Saw a Bee Drown in Honey
    • Sugar and Spice Elegy
    • Two Cups of Blue Tea
    • You Would Too
    • Hospital Cafeteria
  • CREATIVE NONFICTION
    • Your Bones Will Still Be Female
    • Aeropostale in the Burlington Mall
    • Mixed Love
  • FICTION
    • Radiance
    • The Man or The Bear
    • Testing the Bonds of Folklore through the Medium of Chocolate
  • AUTHOR INTERVIEW with Chavonn Williams Shen
  • Student Editor BOOK REVIEWS
    • From the Belly
    • The Untold Story of Books: A Writer’s History of Book Publishing
    • Coachella Elegy
    • Chicano Frankenstein
    • The Eighth Moon

BOOK REVIEWS

by volume 11 student editors:

From the Belly
by Emmett Nahil
Tenebrous Press

Reviewed by Ava French

The Untold Story of Books:
A Writer’s History of Book Publishing
by Michael Castleman

Reviewed by Brianna Lange

Coachella Elegy
by Christian Gullette
Trio House Press 

Reviewed by Elena Laskowski

Chicano Frankenstein
by Daniel A. Olivas
Forest Avenue Press 

Reviewed by Jamal Awil

The Eighth Moon
by Jennifer Kabat
Milkweed Editions

Reviewed by Lindsey Hypatia

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