phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Fall 2011 issue, "Bridging the Cultural Divide: Remembering September 11th," features over 60 poets, including: Ada A. Aharoni, Elmaz Abinader, Nan Hunt, Naomi Shihab Nye, Neil Weisbrod, Penny Cagan, Philip Metres, Purvi Shah, Qais Arsala, Ronny Someck, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, J. J. Steinfeld, Jean Nordhaus, Jesus Papoleto Melendez, Kenny Fries, Lenard D. Moore, Lucille Clifton, Marilyn Hacker, Mbizo Chirasha, Saladin Ahmed, Samuel Hazo, Seree Cohen Zohar, Shonda Buchanan and Susan Rosenberg. Featuring interviews of Ammiel Alcalay, D.H. Melhem, Hayan Charara, Karen Alkalay-Gut, and Zohra Saed. Essays by Lisa Suhair Majar, Ranen Omer-SHerman, Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi, Bassam K. Frangieh, and Morris Dickstein.

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Spring 2011 issue, "Spring Has Returned: A Season of Renewal" features poets Walter Bargen, Wyn Cooper, Susan Deer Cloud, Linh Dinh, Rachel Hadas, Chloe Honum, Hope Houghton, Joe Jimenez, Yuri Kageyama, Suji Kwock Kim, Jay Leeming, Marjorie Maddox, Nathan McClain, Jen Palmares Meadows, Tony Medina, Jesus Papoleto Melendez, Shivon Mozaffar, Rich Murphy, Peter Pereira, James G. Piatt, Ray Succre, Don Thackrey, Sheree Renee Thomas, William Trowbridge, Craig Van Riper, Terence Winch. Featuring interviews of James Piatt and Kimberly N. Ruffin. Essays by Juliet Good Fox, Larry Hales, Susan Allen, Morris Dickstein, Debra Kang Dean, Petra Newman, Kenda Robertson, Steve Newman.

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Fall 2010 issue, "Ekphrasis: A Conversation Between Poets & Writers" featuring essays by Thom Donovan, Theresa Ann White, Ryan Welsh, Patricia Smith, Peter Laufer and Tim Wise, including a wide range of poets and artists.

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Winter 2011 issue, "Celebrating Black History Through Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to Today," features over 40 poets, including Rita Dove, Amiri Baraka, Tara Betts, Shonda Buchanan, David Henderson, Geoffrey Jacques, Yusef Komunyakaa, devorah major, Louis Reyes Rivera, Tony Medina, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Askia M. Toure, Quincy Troupe and others. Essays by Leah Creque-Harris, Andrew P. Jackson, Remica L. Bingham and Thabiti Lewis. Short stories by Jasmine Iona Brown, Yvonne Harriott, Almasi Hines and Stephanie Small. Interviews featuring Ishmael Reed, Harryette Mullen and Sharon Dennis Wyeth.

Jon Sands is a high-stakes, honest poet of wild range. Sands possesses the remarkable ability to celebrate just as deeply as he mourns & whichever city he moves through in his poems ... one can be certain that there will be some singing. That's just what these poems do. - Aracelis Girmay, author Sands scours buses in Queens, faceless bullets, and a city full of "back talk" to find a place where we can all "fall madly in Jon," and we do. Always fresh, The New Clean is a poetics of triumph - Michael Cirelli, Executive Director of Urban Word-NYC Jon Sands has traveled into a ridiculous world, where nothing is too hilarious to not be honest, and nothing is too honest to not get you pregnant. Best of all, he's packed us in his suitcase. This book welcomes those beckoned by the history, mystique, and magic-makers of New York City. These poems exquisitely navigate the many complicated sides of what it means to be alive.