Letter from the Editor
A letter from the editor celebrating the release of the seventh issue of the semester.
Infinite Prospects – Full Design
In this week’s special issue highlighting writers and artists of color, the Nass goes to the grocery, likens music to love, and washes with public soap.
ON WAR AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE
“the human can only know themselves to be human /
because we condemn the three dimensions /
of our thoughts”
He Watches Over Me
Artwork.
Monkey See
“They probably thought Evan just smelled like that: nauseatingly floral like Katie Levi-Moretti, the first girl in his high school class to discover perfume and, therefore, the last person everybody wanted to sit next to at assembly.”
camelot (2021, elastane)
“you were always guinevere /
and jfk, and i arthur of the cul-de-sac”
Like Shooting Stars
Wherein a Nass writer reflects on his myriad relationships with music.
Ars Poetica with Everything Ending, so Everything Beginning
“Let’s try this again. I am one of many people in love. I am a human of being human. Skin like everyone else and lots of heart. Too much music might kill me. Too little too.”
“Fronteriza”
“Some families even hold their hands up to the chicken wire to touch each other’s fingertips.”
Pilgrimage to Mitsuwa
“Nostalgia is a luxury that I’m willing to pay any price for, and these grocery stores sell it all.”
I’m Rewriting My Story
“I often have to remind myself that I too am allowed, and can succeed with, charismatic, unapologetic style.”
The CD Case of Alexandria
Wherein a Nass writer reflects on lost DVDs as artifacts of a past life.
Double Consciousness
Artwork.