The question of what it means to be an American is currently under intense debate. While equality and liberty are foundational ideals, they are increasingly viewed through the lens of racial and ethnic experiences. Second-generation children of immigrants often struggle with their diverse identities while finding their place in a country divided by race, immigration, and societal values.
Read MoreWhen you are born of—and implicated in—violent structures of colonization, how do you pursue liberation? In The Land is Holy, an essay collection published by Radix Printing & Publishing, noam keim embarks on a journey through language, memory, and natural landscapes to reclaim a sense of kinship and belonging against the inherited violence of settler-colonialism.
Read MoreI’m a huge fan of flash writing. I’m even an editor of a flash journal. Over the years, many short pieces have moved me, deeply, but there are only a handful that will stay with me forever. One of those is “Still” by Casey Mulligan Walsh, published right here in Split Lip in 2022. The 500-word flash captures the gut-wrenching moments when Walsh learns her son Eric has died in a car accident. The piece is breathless, brutal, and beautiful.
Read MoreThroughout Megan Pinto’s debut collection, Saints of Little Faith, runs a wild, looped, and knotted thread of memory. Where “Rumi speaks of sorrow as a clearing / of leaves, making space for joy,” Pinto explores the possibility that “Maybe like everything, healing has a season, dormant, but rooting.”
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