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Issue 20 is HERE

“The powerful, incisive stories, essays, and poems in this issue insist that we wake up. They say, come on now, enough of that.”
By
Apogee Editors
November 7, 2025
Interviews
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The Conditions We Choose: On Palestine, Love, and Accessibility with Mandy Shunnarah

A conversation with writer Mandy Shunnarah and Apogee managing editor Zavi Kang Engles.
By
Apogee Editors
October 15, 2025
Flash
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Body

She’s not just my new therapist. She’s my first therapist. If my MetroCard doesn’t make me a New Yorker, then this surely makes it official.
By
dena harry saleh
July 25, 2025
Interviews
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Interview with Kwaneta Harris

By
Demetrius "Meech" Buckley
June 24, 2025
Nonfiction
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Pass the P's

We had a (P)roblem.
By
Corey Arthur
June 19, 2025
Flash
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LOVE LANGUAGES

My lover and I share a colonizer. It is the reason why a chair is a still chair and why what is delicate is also dangerous.
By
Rodlyn-mae Banting
April 25, 2025
Flash
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Work Search Requirements

My dad hated work before hating work was cool. His first job in the United States was as a clerk at the San Jose Department of Motor...
By
Jeanette Tran
January 31, 2025
Poetry
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Queen Restored

By
Tomiekia Johnson
January 20, 2025
Poetry
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An Incarcerated Mail Order Bride

You're famous , in your world, maybe I am--taboo,
By
Tomiekia Johnson
January 20, 2025
Poetry
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Photograph of a Prison Journalist

Even in photographs our eyes danced
By
Tomiekia Johnson
January 20, 2025
Flash
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Life Cycles

My mother says we’re strapped to a cosmic wheel, and you can’t just press a start button and expect to escape suffering. But Ama takes me...
By
K-Ming Chang
December 20, 2024
Flash
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I try saying a prayer for a NICU baby

I hear her saying the Lord’s prayer to them while they squirm and bat away the sticky readers on their little bodies. she is gentle. she has
By
Amber Taylor
December 13, 2024
Poetry
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Volcanic Vigils

My father went whole and alone before / I carried the parts of my mother
By
Rasha Abdulhadi
December 5, 2024

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