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Deliveries

Deliveries

Fiction by T Kira Madden

SHE is not blind but getting there. She knows this. She knows it by the way people touch her like a banged-up porcelain doll. She knows it because she will be a teenager soon. She knows it so bad...

T Kira Madden | Fiction, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
Online Exclusive: An Audio Excerpt of “Deliveries” and a Short Conversation with Author T Kira Madden

Online Exclusive: An Audio Excerpt of “Deliveries” and a Short Conversation with Author T Kira Madden

T Kira Madden is a writer and photographer in New York City whose fiction have been published in venues such as The Fiddleback, elimae,and Fourteen Hills.  Her short story “...

Karissa Chen | Online Exclusive, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
Online Exclusive: A Reading of “Alma, 1942” and Q&A with Poet Brynn Saito

Online Exclusive: A Reading of “Alma, 1942” and Q&A with Poet Brynn Saito

Brynn Saito is the author of poetry collection The Palace of Contemplating Departure, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award and forthcoming from Red Hen Press in March 2013.  Her poem...

Karissa Chen | Online Exclusive, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
Alma, 1942

Alma, 1942

Poetry by Brynn Saito

To board the train without suspicion
I told the man I was Chinese
can you believe it?
You never have to lie
to survive, now do you?
So what will you do
with...

Brynn Saito | Poetry, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
The God-Freak Complex

The God-Freak Complex

Comedian D’Lo reveals the magical powers of a transgender stud king.

"What makes me a freak is when I'm seen as a reflection of people's worst everything...But I could also be their best reflection."

Mandy Hu | Featurette, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
A Different World

A Different World

What's it like to be an Asian American student at a historically black college?

 

IN 1837, 26 years before the end of slavery, a Quaker philanthropist...
Nicole Wong | Featurette, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
These Three Things

These Three Things

Thanhha Lai explores symbols emblematic of the American South from her young adult novel.

 

Thanhha Lai’s 2011 National Book Award-winning young adult novel Inside Out and Back Again is the story of Ha, an adolescent Vietnamese girl who lives in...

Cathlin Goulding | Books, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
A Call to Advocacy

A Call to Advocacy

A second-generation Amerasian on activism and her father’s life and legacy.

“Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who lived in a barnyard with her three chicks.”

Thuy-Anh Vo | First Person, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
Representin’

Representin’

AAPIs won some historic federal seats in 2012, but still have a long way to go towards proportional representation.

AAPIs won some historic federal seats in 2012, but still have a long way to go towards proportional representation.

Erin Pangilinan | Politics, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013

Online Exclusive Video: Growing an American Dream

Farming Silicon Valley

 

While the Silicon Valley of Apple and Facebook is no longer a land of blossoms and orchards, Chinese farmers like the Kuangs continue to wage a battle for farmland preservation in...

John C. Liau | Online Exclusive, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
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