This landscape is alive with wings. Two cuckoos are nesting in the hawthorn by our house. They spend their days sitting high on the telephone wires, waiting for unsuspecting starlings…
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Obsidian Butterfly
by Guest Contributor July 15, 2019I am the wound that does not heal, the small solar stone: strike me, and the world will go up in flames. Had I not stolen that book, I most…
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The Swarm: Language as Fiction
by Guest Contributor September 17, 2018In May 2018 I was invited to give a keynote speech at a symposium held at the Literarisches Colloquium in Berlin. The broader symposium focused on the realities of African…
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NAME TAGS #12: How To Make a Name For Yourself
by Guest Contributor August 30, 2018[Image: Sara Williams, shitfuck] By Sara Williams Be nobody. You are infinite space, pearly everlasting, a perfect, pure moment. Now, this: get in the bedroom and watch the dance—put a…
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NAME TAGS #10: my father’s son
by Guest Contributor March 1, 2018By Logan February A name is something given, passed like a note that was never meant to be read because the receiver already knows what it says. But I…
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NAME TAGS #9: But Alcy’s a Girl’s Name
by Alcy Leyva December 7, 2017I’ve come to the conclusion that no matter how many Twitter followers I nab, how many degrees I earn, or even how many times I file my taxes, when it…
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Adriana Campos: “Broken World Thinking” With Clarice Lispector
by Guest Contributor November 29, 2017[Photo Collage by Laura Vena] Let us sum up Clarice Lispector’s “Amor/Love” first. 1960. A woman – Ana – is taking the tram home. She is a wife, mother, homemaker.…
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Interview with Andrew Wessels, writer of A Turkish Dictionary, 1913 Press
by Laura Vena November 1, 2017[Images Provided by Andrew Wessels] In Andrew Wessels’ A Turkish Dictionary, Istanbul is a palimpsest on which the writer seeks to trace the marks left behind—the umbral residue of displaced…
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Name Tags #8: Bilingual Loneliness
by Guest Contributor October 26, 2017Photo taken in 2008 in Gałów, Lower Silesia, with my grandmother, Jadwiga Chabsińska née Wilczyńska, shortly before her death. On the art of feeling lonely in language and feeling less-lonely…
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NAME TAGS #7: contrapuntal name tag
by Guest Contributor October 5, 2017By K[EI] Kaimana Art by Kristen Stone Note: This contrapuntal poem is best read on screen sizes with a width of 770 pixels or greater. Smaller screen sizes may rearrange lines into…
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NAME TAGS #4: Legal Names, Family Names
by Guest Contributor August 2, 2017Editor’s note: This column is part of a series called Name Tags, about issues related to names and naming. You can find the original Call for Submissions here. Art by…
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NAME TAGS #2: ‘Bout My Gov’ment Name—
by Guest Contributor June 8, 2017(the writer first day of Kindergarten: julius-james dodd circa 1997) Editor’s note: This column is part of a series called Name Tags, about issues related to names and naming. You can…
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Name Tags #1: Fursonas
by Guest Contributor May 11, 2017Editor’s note: This column is part of a new series called Name Tags, about issues related to names and naming. You can find the original Call for Submissions here. Art…
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Call for Submissions: Name Tags
by M./Maybe Henry Milks April 13, 2017[art by Kristen Stone] Hello! My Name Is Maybe Henry Milks, aka/fka Megan Milks, for now. I am pleased to introduce you to Name Tags, a new column devoted to…