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A collaged image of an office space appears with various sections of found text. On the top left, a clipped fragment of text says, “Breaking through the glass ceiling” in red ink on white paper. A few lines below, in large white letters on a black background, a clipped fragment of text reads: “What ceiling?”. Below and to the left, the text reads: “Reinvent Ceiling Design,” and at the bottom in large capital letters: “Freedom.”

27 Jul Who Is Zooming Who? Rituals of Shame in the White Academic Institution

Posted at 13:04h in Creative, Creative Prose 4.0, Home Creative 4.0, Issue 4 Summer 2021

By Chiseche Salome Mibenge: An elite white academic institution in California has convened a virtual workshop on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for a cohort...

26 Jul every girl like the last day of summer

Posted at 07:53h in Creative, Issue 4 Summer 2021, Poetry 4.0

By Kendall Moore: Don’t marry the one you are most passionately in love with because the highs are high, but the lows — / my...

24 Jul Some Sort of Hostage Situation

Posted at 17:11h in Creative, Creative Prose 4.0, Home Creative 4.0, Issue 4 Summer 2021

By Stefanie Doucette: Like most Tuesdays, we spend the night out at our favorite Divisadero Street dive bar, swapping dirty stories for fun over $3...

24 Jul The Unseen Nature of Learning

Posted at 17:09h in Creative, Creative Prose 4.0, Issue 4 Summer 2021

By Alec Sandoval: It’s always difficult to see them when I log on to teach class. Crammed into a small room with one laptop, two...

05 Aug Long Island Rescue

Posted at 10:53h in Creative, Creative 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Brendan Riley: My mother was sick, “sick unto death,” as Poe wrote. With my beleaguered father unable to work as an accountant and look...

Painting of four abstract figures holding a female corpse, with a dog, against a melting sky

04 Aug Visiting Hours

Posted at 17:41h in Creative, Creative 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Anny L. Mogollón: General population But you’re not. Not anymore Now you are an inmate of the state of California/ A transformation...

Set of photographs showing random cracks that resemble the triangular map of Palestine

03 Aug Psalm 137: Reimagined

Posted at 12:34h in Creative, Creative 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Jessie Stoolman: In exile, she makes neighbors out of strangers,/ Communities out of families, New life out of old enmities – Us, essentially...

a concrete bridge stretches across the Nile in Khartoum, Sudan

02 Aug Inquiry in Verse (or) the Magic of Writing

Posted at 16:32h in Creative, Creative 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By shah noor hussein: How do I write all that I want to write while reading all that I must read while simultaneously attempting to...

Three clay blobs slapped on top of each other. The bottom two are glazed pink and the top one is glazed in beige and white stripes. A slight amount of frayed green rope protruding from the bottom blob.

02 Aug Interviews

Posted at 15:18h in Creative, Creative 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Asesina Hudson: It was not without unpleasantness that I answered the first phone call from a tabloid. They wanted to know what I remembered...

Two white sheep on a field, staring at the camera.

01 Aug Christchurch

Posted at 14:50h in Creative, Creative 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Bassam Sidiki: Daud Nabi greeted the refugees/ from far-flung places in the Middle East/ who landed in Christchurch/ but that salutation/ also graced the gleaming barrel...