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Mapping the History of Slavery in New York

By Ada Reso, Maria Robles, and Elsa Eli Waithe

Decolonize Hipsters

By Grégory Pierrot

Gina Frangello: Truth and Consequences

By Kelly Thompson

Estranged Modernisms

By Spencer Lee-Lenfield

Layla Benitez-James

Layla Benitez-James is a recent graduate of the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program in poetry. Her poetry, interviews, reviews, and flash fiction have appeared in Acentos Review, Matter, The San Antonio Express News, The San Antonio Current, and Gulf Coast. She is currently living in Murcia, Spain, where she is translating the works of Madrid poet Óscar Curieses, along with other projects.
Religion in America: Gods and Devils AudioPoetry

God suspected my heart was a geode but he had to make sure

By Layla Benitez-James December 15, 2014

good, God said, I took clouds and planted them / in soft, red clay.

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