Star Literature
Poetry / Ghostly tenants
My father speaks in a dismantled language that goes up in smoke.
Poetry / The song of freedom
the bullet hole/ in my brother's chest/ unfolds like a pandora's box
POETRY / Prayers of a mother for the sons and daughters on the street
justice—where is justice?
POETRY / Rebel is a letter in red
Where voices unite, a chorus strong, / Demanding justice, righting wrong
CREATIVE NONFICTION / PeaceCity alley
The Notorious Loverboy, Slum Boy and Millionaire’s Daughter, My Bride or My Mother, My Mother’s Body in a Wedding Saree,
POETRY / Wonder
I feel my rage, ma, a living thing;/ A beast, caged, like me
FICTION / Storm child
You must have heard the story of your birth a thousand times by now, sweetheart. Your mother and I—home alone.
POETRY / All that I shouldn’t have known
What I wish I didn’t know is that when your dear friends whisper the word “psycho” behind your back, you’ll grow up accepting it.
POETRY / Omniscient
Skin sticky with perspiration from a long month of June
The song of freedom
the bullet hole/ in my brother's chest/ unfolds like a pandora's box
Ghostly tenants
My father speaks in a dismantled language that goes up in smoke.
Prayers of a mother for the sons and daughters on the street
justice—where is justice?
Rebel is a letter in red
Where voices unite, a chorus strong, / Demanding justice, righting wrong
PeaceCity alley
The Notorious Loverboy, Slum Boy and Millionaire’s Daughter, My Bride or My Mother, My Mother’s Body in a Wedding Saree,
Wonder
I feel my rage, ma, a living thing;/ A beast, caged, like me
Omniscient
Skin sticky with perspiration from a long month of June
All that I shouldn’t have known
What I wish I didn’t know is that when your dear friends whisper the word “psycho” behind your back, you’ll grow up accepting it.
Storm child
You must have heard the story of your birth a thousand times by now, sweetheart. Your mother and I—home alone.
All that I’d despicably known / Things I wish I didn’t know
All that I’d despicably known / Things I wish I didn’t know–
