May 3, 20202 min readRites of WomanhoodBy Aliyah Blattner I. All women are accordions. We wheeze. II. My mother once defined girlhood as the act of folding in on oneself. When...
May 3, 20201 min readAn Ever Ascending Song - After Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Ta’anit 23aBy Penina Satlow And so it came to pass That I was not born into a world of carob trees Though I am the seed standing tall planted...
May 3, 20202 min readHoming BeaconBy Sarah Lewis In French, time is a location, A point on a temporal map. On ne dit pas quand, mais où. One does not say when, but where....
May 1, 20201 min readthe shelter inby Rebecca Siegel Lithe limbed and Street smarted, She climbed through the concrete trees. Hanging from iron bar to iron bar, her eyes...
May 1, 20201 min readReturningBy Ilana Jacobs There stands a man ignored by perceivers, surveying all he purveys Like a statue standing guard over God’s city. He can...
May 1, 20202 min readstanding on the river’s ledgeBy Rebecca Siegel We could get lost (found) a hidden lake and my body thin, bloated, and life-less or life-full? As I am still alive...
May 1, 20202 min readHineniBy Ione Heigham Here I am and there I go As I spend the next few months alone, how do I keep life from passing me by? I wake up- eat, go...
May 1, 20203 min readMahberet - The Mutual NotebookBy Mike Fink It's been two years since my report from RISD for our shared scrapbook, the mutual sketchbook/notebook "machberet"-- the...
May 1, 20202 min readMothers Love Differently Around the WorldBy Tanushri Sundar I feel a special joy some mornings, when my mother’s sister and mother’s mother visit our California home. Half...
May 1, 20201 min readSplit(s)(’)By Davi Sapiro-Gheiler You could say it’s two, I would say it’s more than that Two places yes, but the spaces are endless Two exist for...
May 1, 20205 min readUnravelling EdenBy Aliyah Blattner i. When the garden begins to die / we fail to discern green from red / We continue to water the fields / not knowing...
May 1, 20201 min readSculpture - Laura JaramilloIn this project I combined an idealized female torso with mashrabiya (Arabic term given to a type of projecting oriel window enclosed...
May 1, 20202 min readDelray Beach or Boca Raton, but “Moonlight” was in MiamiBy Harry Levine A tan brown, a soft finish dough into something else Mom never made it from scratch but she never needed to these were...
Apr 29, 20203 min readOld HouseBy Belinda Hu In a bedroom on the 11th floor of an apartment building in Changsha, I ask my aunt in halting Chinese what the house she...
Apr 29, 20203 min readMy First Christmas Treeby Ione Heigham At age 5 I called myself half and half, Like the milk I would explain to my friends, People would ask about Jesus, I...
