CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art and Action is a multi-media initiative based at Fordham University committed to integrating the arts and social justice. Featuring creative writing, visual art, new media and video in response to current news, we seek to enable an artistic process that is rigorously engaged with the world at the present moment. Volume 1, Numbers 3, 4 and 5 features work by Brenda Hillman, Arielle Greenberg, Patricia Smith, Craig Santos Perez, Alicia Ostriker, F. Douglas Brown, Lisa Russ Spaar, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Aimee Nezhukumatathil and others.