Bonifacio Global City, Manila, 2015. photo: jason reblando In 2015, while on a Fulbright research fellowship in the Philippines, I went on a walking tour of Intramuros, the famed walled city in M…

The missing persons bulletin board at Navotas City Police Station in Metro Manila, June 2017. Photo courtesy of the authorDo so many opportunities to bear witness only create opportunitie…

 Nonfiction, Memoir & AnthologiesAmerica Is in the Heart, by Carlos Bulosan (University of Washington Press)Eye of the Fish, by Luis Franc…

Winter 97, by Maia Cruz PalileoMost nights, he takes his coffee black, rewindsAnd plays the slasher films he’s seen a dozenTimes, smokes packs of menthol cigarettesTo stay awake, and catches…

The Seer, by Maia Cruz PalileoA writer undergoes a transformation while overcoming  a series of obstacles as she works to reunite her mother with her mother’s siblings in the Philipp…

Burdock Needlepoint, 2017, by Janna Añonuevo Langholz.   Diaspora Sonnet 11   In absence of blackbirds I give you a diamond-studded sky. In absence of…

Lacuna (7), 2017 by Sara Jimenez New Patient Intake FormIn the beginning, there was a windowI pried the blinds to make lightof my lossesI fished my hands into and shatte…

Veils, by Maia Cruz Palileo Here lies Macario “Mac-Attack” Dacanay, 53, who went into cardiac arrest after winning the chicharrón-eating contest. Don’t blame the pig.Here lies Prudencio…

illustration: francis estrada [Number1Dream]A wall diademed with broken glass    can tear the skinof anyone who dares to scale the wallHot box for a house, a tinderbox of elect…

Moonrise After Adams, 2016, oil, acrylic, interior design magazines, nature calendars, Pioneer Supermarket bags, plastic tablecloth, linoleum, and gift wrap on wood, by Camille HoffmanThe…