Come join us as we celebrate incredible art, artists, and the arrival of our 2016 print journals.

Featured Reader: Ashaki Jackson

Ashaki M. Jackson, Ph.D., is a Los Angeles-based social psychologist, program evaluator and poet. Her work has appeared in CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art and Action, Pluck! Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture, and Prairie Schooner among others and she has published two chapbooks, Language Lesson (August 2016) and Surveillance (March 2016).

Student Reader: Annakai Geshlider

Annakai 早川 Geshlider watches
words
scrape smash
scald feed
boost prank
rot born
wondering: 
WHO GET TO SPEAK? 
WHEN, WHERE? HOW, WHY? 
She likes to gab, gawk, and go get boba. She currently serves on the board of Chancellor Gene D. Block’s Office for the Abolition of the Academic Industrial Complex. A devoted granddaughter, father, and horse-lover, she writes to unpack the ways in which capitalism fuels FOMO (Fear of Missing Out).