ATE MOON

TYREE DAYE

My older cousin Ham held up a cabbage in the coming on dark like he was being born again. Like his body grew from the cabbage. I couldn’t help but see a purple orb, a purple moon. A few night crows few around & rivers lifted out of their beds. Te true moon astonished hid behind one large cloud unspooling itself from the rest in the west. Ham spit on ground as he did often from years in a mill when sawdust stuck to his body like a dance foor for unearthly beings. He had mustard-stained eyes from putting his lips on too many bottles. Tortured by land that ate crop, but this cabbage was the color of the Jacaranda blooming in his mother’s yard. It was luscious & made him call out to God, which I’ve never heard him do. His luck had turned around, the soil opened up like an oiled dresser drawer. Te evening was muggy & I wanted to take a plunger to it. We went into the kitchen where he placed a cup in front on me & a bottle of gin. In the cup a piece of ice blue as a glacier. At dinner he put the cabbage in a pan with a little butter and onion.

John Outterbridge, Let Us Tie Down the Loose Ends, from the Containment Series, ca. 1968. Mixed media. 13 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 1 3/4 in. (34.3 x 36.8 x 4.4 cm). Courtesy of Andrew Zermeño. Photo by Ed Glendinning. Photo courtesy Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Eric N. Mack, Performance (suit), 2019, assorted garments, thread, pins, 80 x 25 x 12 in. (203.2 x 63.5 x 30.5 cm). Photo: Steven Probert. © Eric N. Mack. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York and Morán Morán, Los Angeles.

Trea Almontaser is the author of the poetry collection Te Wild Fox of Yemen (Graywolf Press) selected by Harryette Mullen for the 2020 Walt Whitman Award from Te Academy of American Poets. She is the recipient of awards from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright program, and more. She teaches English to immigrants and refugees in Raleigh. Treawrites.com

Katherine Angel is the author of Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difcult to Tell (2012), Daddy Issues (2019), and Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again (2021), and teaches creative and critical writing at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Ashwini Bhat, an artist born in southern India, currently lives and works in the Bay Area, California. She often introduces radical but somehow familiar forms to suggest complex interplay between the landscape, the human, and the non-human.

Victoria Chang’s poetry books include OBIT, Barbie Chang, Te Boss, Salvinia Molesta, and Circle. Her children’s books include Is Mommy?, illustrated by Marla Frazee, and Love, Love, a middle grade novel. She lives in Los Angeles and serves as the program chair of Antioch’s low-residency MFA program.

Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections, River Hymns, 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, and Cardinal from Copper Canyon Press 2020.

Forrest Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Be With. His new book, Twice Alive, is forthcoming from New Directions in May 2021.

Rachel Genn works across Manchester Writing School and the School of Digital Arts. Formerly a neuroscientist, she has written two novels: Te Cure (2011) and What You Could Have Won (2020) and has contributed to Granta, 3AM, Aeon/Psyche, and Te New Statesman. She is currently working on three short volumes on the subject of longing. Gar Anthony Haywood is the Shamus and Anthony Award-winning author of 14 novels and dozens of short stories. His crime fction includes the Aaron Gunner private eye series and the Joe and Dottie Loudermilk mysteries. His most recent novel, In Tings Unseen, was published by Slant Books last December.

Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles–based journalist and columnist who has written about African American political, economic, and cultural issues since 1992. She is a contributing writer to Te New York Times opinion pages and Te Los Angeles Times, where she was a weekly op-ed columnist—the frst black weekly op-ed columnist in the paper’s history. For nine years, she was staf writer and columnist for the LA Weekly and a regular contributor to many publications. Her essays have been widely anthologized and she has published two books: Black Talk, Blue Toughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista (2011) and I Heart Obama (2016). She is currently book review editor for Ms. magazine.

Brian Lin is a Ph.D. student in the creative writing and literature program at USC. His work can be found at Hyphen Magazine, Lambda Literary, and Te Margins. He has participated in the Tin House Summer Workshop and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and is a 2020 Desert Nights, Rising Stars fellow and a 2021 Ragdale resident. Brian is fction editor of Apogee Journal and is working on his frst books of prose.

Andrew Nicholls has written for comedians, stage, print, radio and television. He’s the author of Comedy Writer (2020).

J.T. Price has recently completed a novel manuscript about Ronald Reagan’s time as an outspoken member of the Hollywood left.Visit him at www. jt-price.com.

Donald Rayfeld was born in 1942 and educated at Dulwich College, London, and Magdalene College Cambridge (in modern languages, chiefly Czech, Russian and French). He has spent most of his career as Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London,

and has been an Emeritus Professor since 2005. Among his monograph are Anton Chekhov—A Life, Stalin and his Hangmen, and a history of Georgia, Edge of Empires. He was the editor in chief of A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary and has also written a number of articles on comparative literature and other subjects. His translations of prose and poetry from Russian, Georgian, and Uzbek have appeared widely and have received numerous awards. He was awarded the OBE in 2003 and the Georgian Order of Merit in 2016.

Alex Scordelis has written for Billy on the Street and Difcult People, and received an Emmy nomination for his work on Triumph’s Election Special. A longtime contributing editor at Paper, his writing has also appeared in New York, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Esquire, and Te Believer.

Michael M. Weinstein has spent much of the past decade reading, writing, and reminiscing about Russia. He is currently a Helen Zell Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Michigan. You can fnd him on Twitter @transpoetics.

Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of A Cruelty Special to Our Species, published by Ecco in 2018. Born in Busan, Republic of Korea, Yoon earned her BA in English and communication at the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA in creative writing at New York University, where she served as an award editor for the Washington Square Review. Her poems and translations have appeared in Te New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry magazine, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor for Te Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and is pursuing a PhD in Korean literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

John Outterbridge (1933–2020) was a central fgure in the art community that included Betye Saar, Noah Purifoy, and David Hammons, amongst many other canonical artists in Los Angeles. Outterbridge was the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Communicative Arts Academy (1969-1975) in Compton, CA and the director of the Watts Towers Arts Center (1975-1992) in South Central Los Angeles.

Outterbridge’s work has been exhibited in six of the Pacifc Standard Times 2011-12 exhibitions in Los Angeles, including in Now Dig Tis! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980. It has been included in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, organized by the Tate Modern and originated at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., and West by Midwest: Geographies of Art and Kinship at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. His work is in the collections of Te Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others.

Nancy Lupo’s work often explores the potential for ambiguity and confusion as a slow force that is at once unsettling and full of potential. Her sculptures draw attention to our presence amongst everyday objects, materials, and spaces that are often overlooked, but that deeply afect our understanding of the world. Recent solo exhibitions include: Teller, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles (2020), Scripts for the Pageant, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2019), Te Square at Noon, Visual Arts Center, Austin (2019); No Country for Old Men, Antennae Space, Shanghai (2018); and Parent and Parroting, Swiss Institute, New York (2016). She has participated in several group exhibitions, including Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles – A Fiction, Mac, Lyon (2017) and Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2016); Te Poet, Te Critic, and the Missing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016), and Taster’s Choice, MoMA PS1, New York (2014).

Wendy Red Star (b.1981, Billings, MT) lives and works in Portland, OR. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX), the Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO), the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY), the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), and the Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL).

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In 2017, Red Star was awarded the Louis Comfort Tifany Award and in 2018 she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Her frst career survey exhibition "Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth" was on view at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey through May 2019, concurrently with her frst New York solo gallery exhibition at Sargent's Daughters.

Red Star is currently exhibiting at MASS MoCA (Boston, MA), the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY), the Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), and the Van Every Gallery at Davidson College (Davidson, NC). She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Jocelyn Art Museum (Omaha, NE) opening in January 2021, and will be included in a group show at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) in March 2021. Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles. She is represented by Sargent's Daughters and will have her second solo show with the gallery in April 2021.

Demián Flores has a degree in Visual Arts from the National School of Plastic Arts of the UNAM. His graphics, paintings, drawings and installations have been exhibited in a multitude of galleries, museums and institutions in America and Europe, such as the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (2009) Museum of Modern Art (2010), Museum of Mexico City (2012–2000), Museum National Art Museum (2012), Arocena Museum (2013), and Museum of the Painters of Oaxaca (2013), among others. His work can be found in the collections of the British Museum, Chelsea College of Arts and Essex Collection of Latin American Art in England, at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Museum of Contemporary Art of the UNAM, (MUAC)., Museum of Art Contemporary and Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca., and Museum of Art of Sonora (MUSAS), among others.

Celia Herrera Rodríguez (Xicana/O’dami, born in Sacramento CA) is a visual artist and educator whose practice refects an intergenerational dialogue and engagement with Xicana[x], Indigenous Mexican and North American thought, spirituality, culture, and politics. Recent projects and exhibitions include Making Ohlone Visible, a collaborative project with the Chochenyo – Ohlone community, Oakland, CA, 2018-20. ost recent conceptual set and costume design and artistic collaborations with playwright Cherríe Moraga include: Mathematics of Love, Te Nitery Teater, Stanford University and the Brava Teater; San Francisco CA, 2017. New Fire, Altar To Put Tings Right Again, Brava Teater, San Francisco, CA, 2012; and La Semilla Caminante, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco CA, 2010. She is co-founder and co-director of Las Maestras Center for Xicana Indigenous Tought, Art and Social Practice, and teaches Xicana[x] Art, Teory, and Practice in Chicana[x] Studies at UC- Santa Barbara.

Eric N. Mack (b. 1987, Columbia, MD) lives and works in New York, NY. He received his BFA from Te Cooper Union, New York, NY and his MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT. In 2017, Mack was the recipient of the inaugural BALTIC Artists’ Award selected by artist Lorna Simpson and completed the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva Island, Florida, FL and an artist-in-residency at Delfna Foundation in London, UK. Institutional solo exhibitions include Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2019); the BALTIC Artists’ Award 2017, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2017); and Eric Mack: Vogue Fabrics, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Bufalo, NY (2017). Major group exhibitions include Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2017); In the Abstract, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, MA (2017); Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis, MO (2017); Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2016) and Greater New York 2015, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (2015).