Table of Contents

Editors’ Note

Prose

Farimata Mbaye | The Rhetoric of My Roots
George Danias | Why Die?
Jeremy Sherman | The Root of the Opioid Epidemic

Poetry

Dorothy Adu-Amankwah | A Litany for Those Who Wait
Glikeria Tzikas | What I wished I said
Leore Lavin | Tel Aviv summer
Masih Babagoli | The Human Masterpiece
Niathi Kona | love letter
Renee Ren | Rooted in Culture, Free in Spirit
Simran Malhotra | Roots
Zahava Michaelson | This is the start of her eulogy

Photography

Connor Tukel | Generational
Jeff Paik | A eulogy to my grandfather 1-5
Nicole Muehleisen | On the Side of the Court

Visual Art

Bindu Chadaga | Red Batik
Deysi Vatman | The Lonely City 2022
Ivory Fu | Parinirvana on Powers St.
Niathi Kona | mum
Trisha M. Tagle | Strength. Beauty. Filipina.