Spring
2023
Welcome to the
Hennepin Review
Women, & Nonbinary Artists of Color.
Poets, Artists, Musicians, & Writers.
“It started off small — hallway lights stayed on, car keys left behind on the counter every few mornings. Then got worse over time — which one of these machines is my car? Do I know how to drive?”
JASMINE LEDESMA was awarded the Patricia Clearly Miller Award while in the psychiatric hospital. She lives in New York. Her chapbook, ACID IN GEORGIA, is out now.
The cinema of my memories is burning down.
The cinema of my memories is burning down.
The cinema of my memories is burning down. The cinema of my memories is burning down.
Language has begun to leave my head through trap doors.
Language has begun to leave my head through trap doors.
Language has begun to leave my head through trap doors. Language has begun to leave my head through trap doors.
JASMINE Ledesma
JASMINE Ledesma
JASMINE Ledesma JASMINE Ledesma
As he turned to leave, the wind picked up and rustled the trees. An old hound somewhere nearby began wailing.
FERGUSON WILLIAMS…is a fiction writer from Socastee, South Carolina.
R. Tiara Malone
A Meditation on Touch
“Sugar babies don't have degenerative discs. They have new, strong necks.”
TIARA owns Minimoon Massage Studio(@MinimoonMassage) in Nola. Her work of creative non-fiction is an essayistic take on what it means for a person to belong to “the kingdom of touch.”
WRITER / FILM CRITIC / FILMMAKER
JONAH
WU
At nineteen, I inherited my grandma’s gold earrings with pearl petal tips, a Schlumberger design from Tiffany’s, cluster tops, each inlaid with an emerald and a screw- back that takes a century to put on.
I have smoked them with white sage three times, after each rape.
SAIRA Khan’s fiction has been supported with an Open Door Career Advancement Grant from Poets & Writers Magazine, funded by Reese Witherspoon.
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Ceylan Göksel
MUSIC
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Saira Khan
FICTION
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Jasmine Ledesma
FICTION
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Tiara Malone
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
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Ferguson Williams
FICTION
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Jonah Wu
FILM