Circle of Fifths Richard Bader __________ Ronald quit the chorus. He didn’t consider this the end of his singing career — there were lots of other places he could sing, that could make use of his talents, talents that he perhaps thought were greater than they actually were — but…
Read MorePride, June ’25 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Guest Editor: Robbie Hess Managing Editor: Karris Rae Associate Editor: Taryn White Assistant Editors: Leah Joseph, Jade Turner, Meilyn Woods Deborah Chava Singer, “Rainbow Blossoms,” Digital Artwork Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson Letter from the Guest Editor by Robbie Hess…
Read MoreFinding Home: Immigration and Displacement, May ’25 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Guest Editor: Leah Joseph Managing Editor: Karris Rae Associate Editor: Taryn White Assistant Editors: Robbie Hess, Jade Turner, Meilyn Woods Interns: Ta’Mya Davis, Elaine Schroeder Donna Turan, “Liberty’s Lament,” Acrylic, marker, and pen on canvas Letter from the Editor…
Read MoreLetter from the Editor Vallie Lynn Watson __________ Summer is meant to be a time of rest, but our McNeese MFA students aren’t slowing down! Thanks to Leah Joseph, Boudin‘s got another wowza of an issue. Our Immigration and Displacement CFS brought in an unprecedented amount of submissions and Leah has selected…
Read MoreLetter from the Guest Editor Leah Jiazi Joseph __________ What is home and how do we find it? How do we make sense of it? It is difficult to unwrap the layers of the definition, as they range from the physical dwelling where your belongings are, the area you’re from,…
Read MoreGinsberg’s Transient Domicile Jay Daugherty __________ __________ Jay Daughery‘s oil painting “Ginsberg’s Transient Domicile” was created by combining frottage and automatism. The title is a play on the 2004 film Howl’s Moving Castle and Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem “Howl”. He first encountered Buddhism as a homeless teenager traveling across America—an experience that…
Read MoreLike Bursting Jellyfish Across the Neon Sea Alexandra McAnarney __________ When the first bomb goes off it’s far enough away from home that it’s easy to confuse for a stray thunder burst. The girl, who lies awake as she does most nights since she arrived back in the capital city…
Read MoreA Big Red Island Christine H. Chen __________ Behind the carved mahogany table Tang tai-tai the matchmaker scanned the girl up and down before telling her to sit with a tone that cut short any form of protest. Tang tai-tai squinted behind her thick tortoise shell glasses as if to…
Read MoreKilling the Ingénu Valerie Tirado __________ To escape our blood-soaked land,we rather flock on frays of papier-mâché rafts swallowed whole by tumultuous waves than live where the ironclad hungerfor the metallic taste of censorship. How to distill home from homeland when—as a boy—I was stripped of my mother,handed a rifle & taught to kill…
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