Poetry

What We Know About Men

  1.   2.   3.   4.   5.   6.   Harvey Weinstein …

The Desert Survival Series/ La serie de la sobrevivencia del desierto* (excerpt)

* The Desert Survival Series/La serie de la sobrevivencia del desierto was written as a…

Standing at Fallujah’s Door by Kishwar Naheed translated from Urdu

  What should I do with those poems I had written against running blood and…

The Paper Camera (excerpt)

  To translate, would mean engaging an electrical circuit in his brain, bypassing his heart.…

temporary statement

  I am not poignant. I am losing nuance. I beat you over the head.…

“I Want Not to Be Spoken To,” A Review of Gabriel Jesiolowski’s As Burning Leaves

It’s hard not to begin with the arresting cover image of Gabriel Jesiolowski’s As Burning…

Lost the Root

  Spirit, grow like flamboyán, a blaze blooming red. Everything red. Black and brown, mancha…

The Woman and the Branch

  I knew. I knew. My mother gave me her bluebird of happiness. Carrying the…