Tse Hao Guang 謝皓光 wrote Deeds of Light, shortlisted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize. He edits e-journal OF ZOOS and critical resource poetry.sg, edited UnFree Verse: Singapore poetry in form, and is a 2016 fellow of the International Writing…
Do you have a fence around your house A wall marking the borders of your yard A gate to enter the premises How many doors locks alarms Is it your…
Kaveh Akbar’s poems appear recently in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. His debut full-length, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, will be published by Alice James Books in September. He is also the author of the…
Image Credit: Liat Berdugo, Hat Credit: Lee Tusman Often we work with holes. In understanding. Often set out without knowing where. Often distrust narratives. Never need struggle over the…
It’s important to me to be part of the literary community, and it’s important that my authors participate in the literary community. This isn’t just about do-gooding either: the literary community buys literary fiction.
The Swimming Birds The top of the lake Is a solid white slab Seared through With hairline cracks. Because of people, Because of strolling, The top of the lake Also…
Image Credit: Super Mario Bros I met Hannah Morgan at Ord Public Elementary School on the first day of fifth grade. I had arrived in Mrs. Teply’s classroom a…
[Image Credit: Colette Pope Heldner] Part 01 I am writing this because I do not know what is happening. Maybe I am falling in love. Maybe I am falling off the…
If I were to be invited to Terry Gross’s show on NPR, “Fresh Air”, it would be because, of course, I have finally published a book in English, not a…
3 the falcon confronts the music the date smudged with names the grand parade when men leave church I can’t forget the first stories the way of birds announces itself…
Radiohead’s music embodies a kind of distortion that synchronizes with the psychic distortion of modern life. They manipulate a seeming chaos of sounds into modulations that amount to a mystification…
In 2005, a band of young upstarts walked under the pop punk umbrella, gunning for love and spreading their music like wildfire. That band, was Paramore, an act lead by…
So it has finally happened. After years of toil, you have won a writing contest. You scan the letter, delighting in the lack of “regret” or “unfortunately,” to find which…
Emotion pulls you in every direction in this apocalyptic fantasy of breathtaking destruction. Israeli artist Yael Bartana dares with high theatrics and lush symmetrics in the hellish utopia Inferno (2013).…
