​​The Claremont Colleges literary magazine | Current issue: MENAGERIE

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Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race (Interview with Dr. Genevieve Carpio)
Sunny Jeong-Eimer

"I always found it very stark—the inequities between places like Claremont and Pomona. I wanted to know more about how that's built into the landscape, why and what we can do about it."

dead meat
fia meng

she just moved to LA
Jeremy Martin
It is 1:00 in the morning on a Saturday night, I am in a UCLA In-N-Out Burger, and I want a strawberry milkshake. I’m going to get a #3 combo (raw onions, hold the tomato) and I want a strawberry milkshake.
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supermarket assimilation
Valerie Braylovskiy
I bought a grapefruit today. After a four-month hiatus from the supermarket. Time created a yearning for errands I once dreaded. 

On Culture, Psychics, and Making Meaning: An Interview with Sheila  Heti
Carolyn Tung

"The books I’ve been most drawn to aren’t books that are healing but books that throw me off, that break things apart and break things up and disturb me. I don’t think I go to literature to be healed, exactly, and I don’t think that’s the reason I write, either."
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hourglass
Isabel Li
 years spent
chasing gravity,
unearthing a wormhole
upon which your footprints
dissolved
into 
vertigo: 
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Self Portrait, Dreaming
Reia Li

Watermelon Seed
Necdet Canim
Where did I put my mind after cleaning everything
and beginning to grow a watermelon seed in it? 
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Regenerate, Renew
Jessica Yim

convenient
Cecelia Blum
​above the paperwhite expanse
one million incandescent suns
are in position
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Awakenings
Adam Osman-Krinsky
Sweat dripping like a broken faucet
Cleansing my breath... 
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On Tea
Adam Osman-Krinsky
How can you taste a routine?
Centuries of waking up,
Millenia of water boiling, tasting
Leaves us becoming human.

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