An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

Dakotah Jennifer is a nineteen-year-old black writer currently attending Washington University in St. Louis. Jennifer has appeared in Protean Magazine, Apartment Poetry, Paintbucket.page, The Confessionalist Zine, and more. She won Washington University’s Harriet Schwenk Kluver award for the 2018-2019 year and has published two chapbooks: Fog (Bloof Books), and Safe Passage (Radical Paper Press).
  • Middle School

    Middle School

    On our camping field trips, they’d say, / “Whoever is lightest when we leave wins.” / Sunscreen was a must for us kids.

  • Lights

    Lights

    I am painfully aware of how alive I am… or am not. I am painfully aware of things ending & beginning. I am painfully aware of tiptoeing down the hall at night. There is no hall. There is no night.