by Juni Park Yuri grew to like Caitlyn. Yuri liked to keep to herself, excusing herself from small talk and strategically avoiding any extroverted classmates. But Caitlyn made a point to sit with her in every class they shared. “I like your name,” she whispered while everyone was tuning out the AP chemistry lesson. “Does it mean anything?” “Glass,” Yuri told her. “It’s Korean.” Caitlyn let out a noise of acknowledgement. There was a hint of excitement, if Yuri recalled correctly. “I wasn’t sure if you were, it’s a name in other languages too, right? Do you listen to K-pop? You heard EXO’s new ..read more

by Greg Santos The hummingbirds are fighting again and the bug zapper has been left on all day. It is that hot/humid/stickyflytape time of year. Hummingbirds sound like a mix of tiny bomber aircraft/squeaky toy. My boy is off on a fishing trip with his Grampy for the first time. I have never been fishing but I was once a fisherman for Halloween. I even had a puffy red vest/facepaintstubble! Tata, my maternal grandmother, used to run barefoot over rocks and ocean – a human skipping stone. On the hunt to catch and bring home fish to cook. Her curly hair boingaboinging as she leaped, calling back ..read more

by Chae Yeon Kim her fingers were frostbitten so was her face they had been walking for twenty days across the winter desert not from freedom       criminal not towards freedom       finding refuge she crossed into a new place nothing to mark it but a line in the sand could not go on any longer fission or whatever is the opposite of fusion so unnatural insignificant a scab grating and bleeding it not her   About the Author Chae Yeon Kim is a queer, transnational Korean American writer, poet, and peacebuilder. She is interested i ..read more

by Ed Go   About the Author Ed Go is a Chinese-Filipino-Portuguese-English-Scottish-Irish American writer raised in Massachusetts, Virginia, Alaska, Hawaii and Connecticut. His writings have been published in various online and print journals and anthologies, and his chapbook Deleted Scenes from the Autobiography of Ed Go as told by Napoleon Id was published in 2014 by Other Rooms Press, and “new machines,” a sequence of twenty-one prose poems in the anthology Urgent Bards in 2016 by Urbantgarde Press. The post my father’s beer glass appeared first on riksha ..read more

by Ed Go About the Author Ed Go is a Chinese-Filipino-Portuguese-English-Scottish-Irish American writer raised in Massachusetts, Virginia, Alaska, Hawaii and Connecticut. His writings have been published in various online and print journals and anthologies, and his chapbook Deleted Scenes from the Autobiography of Ed Go as told by Napoleon Id was published in 2014 by Other Rooms Press, and “new machines,” a sequence of twenty-one prose poems in the anthology Urgent Bards in 2016 by Urbantgarde Press. The post ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono appeared first on riksha ..read more

by Clara Yu About the Author Clara Yu is a Chinese American from North Potomac, Maryland. She graduated from Messiah University’s Department of Language, Literature and Writing as a Creative Writing major, with a minor in Music. Much of her work is shaped by two themes: nature and her lifelong struggle to accept and understand her cultural heritage and identity. Some of her work can be found in her university’s literary journal, The Peregrine (2018 and 2021). Aside from writing, she also enjoys other forms of self-expression; you can check out her art on Instagram @clariiskies. Photo credit ..read more

by Clara Yu About the Author Clara Yu is a Chinese American from North Potomac, Maryland. She graduated from Messiah University’s Department of Language, Literature and Writing as a Creative Writing major, with a minor in Music. Much of her work is shaped by two themes: nature and her lifelong struggle to accept and understand her cultural heritage and identity. Some of her work can be found in her university’s literary journal, The Peregrine (2018 and 2021). Aside from writing, she also enjoys other forms of self-expression; you can check out her art on Instagram @clariiskies. Photo credit ..read more

      by Kunio Hagio Self portrait with Paulette on Harley. 1986, 24″ x 20″, oil and texture paste on canvas board About the Artist Kunio Hagio was born Sansei in Chicago in 1947 to Allan and Toyoko Hagio. Oldest of 3 and raised in Skokie, Il., Kunio attended Niles East H.S. and graduated in the class of ‘65. He began drawing at a young age and practiced with his father Allan in the living room on tray tables, side by side. His father Allan was a skilled and trained letterer, and technical illustrator. Kunio would learn drawing skills from these sessions. Kunio would also pick ..read more

      by Kunio Hagio Self portrait red chair feeding. 1981, 24″ x 36″, oil and pencil on canvas board with crackle varnish About the Artist Kunio Hagio was born Sansei in Chicago in 1947 to Allan and Toyoko Hagio. Oldest of 3 and raised in Skokie, Il., Kunio attended Niles East H.S. and graduated in the class of ‘65. He began drawing at a young age and practiced with his father Allan in the living room on tray tables, side by side. His father Allan was a skilled and trained letterer, and technical illustrator. Kunio would learn drawing skills from these sessions. Kunio would a ..read more

      by Kunio Hagio Samurai Koi with Paulette shhhh. 1995, 24″ x 36″ airbrush, oil and pencil on illustration board About the Artist Kunio Hagio was born Sansei in Chicago in 1947 to Allan and Toyoko Hagio. Oldest of 3 and raised in Skokie, Il., Kunio attended Niles East H.S. and graduated in the class of ‘65. He began drawing at a young age and practiced with his father Allan in the living room on tray tables, side by side. His father Allan was a skilled and trained letterer, and technical illustrator. Kunio would learn drawing skills from these sessions. Kunio would also pic ..read more