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The Claremont Colleges literary magazine | Current issue: PLACEBO |
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."
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. 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. |
"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."
hourglass
Isabel Li years spent chasing gravity, unearthing a wormhole upon which your footprints dissolved into vertigo: 
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Watermelon Seed
Necdet Canim Where did I put my mind after cleaning everything and beginning to grow a watermelon seed in it? 
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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