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Less Desolate

Haiku by Shin Yu Pai & Comics by Justin Rueff Publication Date: November 11, 2023 Multidisciplinary artists Shin Yu Pai and Justin Rueff have created Less Desolate, a stunning haiku comics book...

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Maps

3rd Edition Maps is the transmutation of Christina Vega’s debut poetry collection — and the book that started it all at Blue Cactus — Still Clutching Maps. First published in 2017, this pocket-sized...

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Vega

Much like the star, Vega is a dazzling light for those who struggle with grief, depression, and loss. Written by poet and publisher Christina Vega, this sophomore poetry collection centers the Chicana...

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Papeachu Review Issue 5: Comfort

Papeachu Review is an annual anthology of prose, poetry, nonfiction, art, and comics, all created by female, nonbinary, and genderqueer artists. This issue is extra special! For the first time ever,...

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Papeachu Review Issue 4: Real Magic

Papeachu Review is a bi-annual anthology of poetry, prose, essays, comics, and art, all created by female and non-binary artists. This issue was created during a global pandemic and a continuing fight...

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Papeachu Review Issue 3: Beginnings and Endings

Papeachu Review is a bi-annual anthology of poetry, prose, essays, comics, and art, all created by female and non-binary artists. This issue is extra special! Not only is this our largest issue yet, it...

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Papeachu Review Issue 2: Beauty

Papeachu Review is an annual anthology of prose, poetry, nonfiction, art, and comics, all created by female, nonbinary, and genderqueer artists.  In this issue, each of the 31 contributors submitted...

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Papeachu Review Issue 1

Papeachu Review is an annual anthology of prose, poetry, nonfiction, art, and comics, all created by female, nonbinary, and genderqueer artists. In this issue, each of the 24 contributors were able to...

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Up South

In Up South, his second book of poems, Robert Lashley has gone deeper into the rituals, folklore, and ceremonies of Black Tacoma. This is a book about cities within cities, where the present has roots...

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The Homeboy Songs

The Homeboy Songs is Robert Lashley’s complex homage to the black community of Tacoma, Washington. As part of a Northwest population with people from the deep South and a survivor of the Hilltop gang...

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Anatomy of My Mixed Body

Mainstream American culture asks us to label and define ourselves in clearly marked, rigid boxes. But definitions, meaning, and identity are always shifting. The only thing that lingers in their wake...

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A Summoning

Can we exorcise a memory? Can we purge those that are a danger to us? Rewriting moments of trauma while coming to terms with a family in the early stages of memory loss, A Summoning muddles the line...

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If the Storm Clears

If the Storm Clears is a multi-genre collection that adopts the wondrous parameters of speculative fiction and poetry to illuminate the sublime, or the grandeur, beauty, and awe-inspiring power of the...

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