Hybrid: Four collages by Michelle Peñaloza
“Collage, like poetry, is a way to collapse time and space. Collage can be a portal, an altar, a way to visualize and make possible the impossible. A way to create new realities.”
Hybrid: “A Ticking Heart in 10 Beats” by Jazmine Becerra-Green
“In those early and mostly uneventful trips to the OBGYN, listening to my baby’s heartbeat was a wilderness.”
Hybrid: Excerpt from ELEGANT ATTRACTIVE CHILD by Stephanie Kaylor
“BLUE: Nostalgia as neither past nor present tense but the second person.”
Hybrid: "It Is Comfortable to Be Alive This Way, Especially Now" and "Origami, Euphemized" by Narisma
“The ocean has blond hair and brown eyes. He has a little sister like me.”