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

Porsha Monique Allen received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in The Scene & Heard Journal, Scalawag Magazine, Apricity Press, LEON Literary Review, Rattle, Obsidian, and Belle Ombre. She was selected as a semi-finalist for Naugatuck River Review’s 12th Annual Narrative Poetry Contest.
  • Ashes to Ashes

    Ashes to Ashes

    Poet Porsha Allen’s “Ashes to Ashes” meditates on the ways anti-Blackness continues to shape death, loss, and even hope.