THE FLEA is a lyrical and critical meditation, using the flea as a parasite and marketplace to morph into a monstrous, grieving artifact. We enter an intimate yet exhilarating site for examining consumption and digital accumulation, where Vietnamese histories and diasporic fugitivity interweave with the detritus of late capitalism.
Chapbooks
The Flea
Our Sodden Bond
by Kelly Gray
OUR SODDEN BOND manifests narratives with a spiritual pulse from survival and play as liberation.
Sleepwalking
by Maura Modeya
In SLEEPWALKING, the voice operates in a register of intimate defiance in the liminal space, confrontational yet matter-of-fact.
Transcolonial Poem
by hanta t. samsa
As an X-ray of U.S. culture, this micro chapbook reveals the violent interiorities of nature preserves, technological advances, and heteronormative ideals.
Neat Panic
by Julia Mallory
Through photosynthesis and the siren song, these poems are written for an alchemical future, one that calls for ‘a third thing’ beyond records of atrocity and poison.
Little Divinities
by Sophie Hoss
What does a vessel become when it has nothing to carry?
This Body I Have Tried to Write
by Ja’net Danielo
Who among us hasn’t wanted to kill the sweetest thing?
