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Issue 45: Spring 2019

The In-Between Water

By Adrian De Leon and Oubah Osman
History draws / its lines through / salt water
Please click the image below to enlarge the poem.    

About the author

Oubah Osman is a Somali-Canadian writer living and working in Scarborough, Toronto.  Her work has been published in Room, Unpublished City Volume II, and The Puritan, and her chapbook titled Hereditary Blue was published with Anstruther Press in 2019. She is currently completing her MFA at the University of Guelph.

Adrian De Leon is an Abagatan (Southern) Ilokano writer and educator from Manila by way of Scarborough. He is the author of Rouge  (2018) and Poetry Editor of the forthcoming collection FEEL WAYS: A Scarborough Anthology. He is Assistant Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.