DOMINIQUE CHRISTINA is an award-winning poet, author, educator, and activist. She has authored four poetry collections: The Bones, The Breaking, The Balm: A … Continue reading Poetics and Ancestral Logic: An Interview with Dominique Christina
After finding a decade-old letter in the Gulf Stream editorial office from an inmate asking about free journal samples for … Continue reading Gulf Stream Editors Lead Prison Education Initiative
The Gulf Stream Magazine Summer Writing Contest is open to writers of fiction and poetry. The winner in each genre … Continue reading Now Reading for Summer Contest Issue
Some ghosts are my fathers, forever testaments to ragelove, undertow, imprint of baseball stitches on the temple. Not king, not … Continue reading What the Ghosts in a Kiki Petrosino Poem Said to the Ghosts in an Anne Sexton Poem, Which Were Actually the Ghosts in My Own Poem by Dante Di Stefano
In my gym shoes, I drew the striped blocks of my Japanese name, strained and skewered during roll call … Continue reading On Being the Only Asian in Small-Town Kansas by Shannon Nakai
A consortium of hips, thick hips, the unionized and synchronized alike. Tough hips like rhino hides herringboned around the … Continue reading Office Politics by Cheyenne Taylor
A couple of years ago I went out for a drink with a fellow I had briefly dated. Our dating … Continue reading “Loneliness is the raw underbelly of being single.” –Catherine Johnson
