Cosmonauts Avenue is an online, monthly literary journal run by women and non-binary folks dedicated to elevating and amplifying underrepresented voices.
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YOLANDI CRUZ GUERRERO
poetry
“after church, purse filled with easter eggs & holy water the wife takes the uncle in, it’s just for a few weeks, until he gets back on his feet.”
ROBIN RICHARDSON
poetry
“You mistook his peace for shyness mistook the blue for pools the eyes for danger because all the other eyes of all the other boys hid hostage narratives”
ASHLEY LOPEZ
fiction
“When the doors of the Downtown A slide open, college couples exit—ping pong balls of intoxication bouncing into the night.”
RITA MOOKERJEE
poetry
“I was nobody’s angel in the centerfold/too ballet scrawny to have any curves/too darkskinned to light up a room/too short to tower over my haters”
PENELOPE ROMO
poetry
“because i had to, because/there is no room in the anglo o rthography /for an accented o, an ó/who is a mother with an umbilical cord/hanging out loose”
JAMESON FITZPATRICK
poetry
“I’m never a teenager at all, if it can be arranged. I see the car coming and don’t make the left turn.”
MONICA RICO
poetry
“I will die on Sunday afternoon in Saginaw/following a plate of my mother’s/enchiladas, fried chicken, and rice.”
HANNAH COHEN
poetry
“my children will begin to understand sometimes Dads are not your real Dads maybe their real Dad is still wandering no change of clothes no cash no comb”