It’s inevitable that social media’s ubiquitous presence in most of our lives has changed not just the way we interact with and see each other but the way we read as well; we read to seek out a fuller understanding of ourselves and others, and social media fulfills this need, […]
Tarfia Faizullah’s new collection of poems, Registers of Illuminated Villages, engages with issues of grief, trauma, ancestry, and joy in a voice that is always attentive and intensely lyric. Faizullah untangles matters of societal and ancestral influence; she catalogs the ways we hurt and affirm each other; and she answers […]
In Oceanic, her fourth collection of poetry, Aimee Nezhukumatathil writes a series of love letters to the world and its inhabitants. From intimate psalms of love to her husband—whose love wields electricity as they ascend the Swiss Alps—to poems addressed to starfish, turtles, and the Northern Lights, the “you” in […]
Download the PDF file . Andrea Durlacher (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1984) is a writer and poet. Author of the poetry collection Ni un segundo para arrepentirme and the novel Esto es una pipa. Her poems appear in América invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets (University of New […]
I’ve finally found the river, the one where my enemies will never float by, where the fish stay silent and the birds keep to themselves. Every feather is just a feather. The séance is over. The tarot turns up blank as in a magic trick. I wash all […]
“The Main Setting” Let’s remember that when Mary Richards shows up in Minneapolis, she’s a stranger to us. Soon, we’ll learn she’s had a steady boyfriend for the last two years. We’ll discover Bill let Mary “nearly support him” throughout his residency. We’ll come to understand they […]
_______________________________________________________________ Sarah J. Sloat divides her time between Frankfurt and Barcelona, where she works in news. Her poems and prose have appeared in The Offing, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Diagram, among other journals.
Download the PDF file . Krystyna Dąbrowska, born in 1979, studied graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She has produced three collections of poetry: Biuro podróży [Travel Agency], 2006; Białe krzesła [White Chairs], 2012; and Czas i przesłona [Time and Aperture], 2014. She […]
Download the PDF file . Terese Svoboda is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Professor Harriman’s Steam Air-Ship (Eyewear, 2016). The Maine in Spain, a chapbook, will be published by Island Verse later this year, and Great American Desert, a book of stories in […]
Download the PDF file . Abraham Sutzkever, born in 1913 in modern-day Belarus, is a legendary figure of the Yiddish literary world, with a poetic oeuvre numbering well over 1,000 pages. A survivor of the Vilna Ghetto, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine just before the founding of […]
