Issue 9

Editor’s Note, Issue 9
At Third Point Press, we focus ourselves on just a few things: publishing distinct, wonderful work from people who are
Issue 9 Featured Artist’s Statement
Emily Truman Emily is a local collage artist who often found herself in her bedroom as a child, spreading magazines
we never learned turnaround jumpers (for shaun livingston)
by Alvin Park Pull the carrots from the earth, dirt clinging to their eyes. Remember when that was you? Remember
How to Find Your Cervix
By Danielle Johnson first, my hand inside the opening of a galaxy swirling with fishing line and blood. Age makes
the obvious/as I’ve accidentally put both hands up/ex nihlio
by Heikki Huotari   the obvious The   cubic    foot   of   air   will    fill    the basketball but for a
Self-portrait as Medical Model of Disability/Self-Portrait as Economic Model of Disability
By torrin a. greathouse     torrin a. greathouse is a genderqueer trans woman & cripple-punk from Southern California. She is
On and on
By Melissa Goode We walk through the greenest park, my hand inside your hand, inside your coat. You turn your
Eve Knows How to Make the Asp’s Mouth an Entrance
by Nicole Connolly   Nicole Connolly lives and works in Orange County, CA, which she promises is mostly unlike what you
From the Water
By Alexander WeIdman It was about 38 degrees but with the spray from the water it felt even colder. I
Open Space
By LUIS LOPEZ-MALDONADO & we walk run float on dirt trails cactus growing up into the blue black & balloons balloons
Out in the Night, I Found Myself Falling
by Chloe Clark   At noon, we heard the siren. Walking to the briefing-room, past the largest windows on the
throw your hands in the air and wave them like
By Olatunde Osinaike     Olatunde Osinaike is a Nigerian-American poet originally from the West Side of Chicago. He is Black,