I found the announcement for the exchange program in a wrinkled Le Matin newspaper on Papa’s […]
Sarah Russell
“We ask them our name but they tell us their own”[1] Summer. We were at our house […]
Chapter One of Fairy Soda, a novel by Ercan Kesal
In my travels around Turkey, I was struck by the often disheveled appearance of old Turkish tombstones. […]
Introduction to Ercan Kesal by Bronwyn Mills
Somewhere else, the hotel. You are outside, under the tense sky. The hotel is standing, […]
Fifth Circle by Leslie Kaplan, Translated by Julie Carr and ...
You go to a factory that makes headlights. It’s in a neighborhood just outside the center, […]
Fourth Circle by Leslie Kaplan, Translated by Julie Carr and ...
Somewhere off the coast of our own defeated world I approach the mangroves, blooming. The wings […]
Torschlusspanik (Already the Sun) by John James
I haven’t read Carlos Bulosan or José Rizal. I haven’t read Jessica Hagedorn. I haven’t read […]
Acknowledgments by Jan-Henry Gray
It is an extraordinary coincidence that on the morning of the day of my incapacitating accident, my […]
Chapter One of Innocence, a novel by James Lewelling
A prolific artist and writer, Robert Seydel (1960-2011), left behind a multi-layered, highly original body of work marked […]
Robert Seydel
The huge plane-tree is too patched with rust this morning to conceal autumn anymore But its roots […]
November by Marilyne Bertoncini, translated by Jan Owen
Achilles sings The Seven Wallbroken at Thebes and a ditch’s mudslick that’d need a […]
Achilles at Rest by Bryan Narendorf
She changes tables. it’s been a while since she’s sat down in this place. meanwhile red falls […]