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Search Results for: elizabeth johnson

Six Poems by Anna Matysiak
from Inbred Machines: (The Difference and the Repetition), translated from the Polish by Peter Burzyński

June 23, 2022 Contributed By: Anna Matysiak, Elizabeth Johnson, Peter Burzyński

Exit County by Elizabeth Johnson

the queen wasp / opens her first pair of arms. / she convulses in the right chamber like / how nails sanctify a board.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: June 23, 2022

We Will Survive
by Rolla Barraq, translated from the Arabic by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp

June 2, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, Jeffrey Clapp, Muntather Alsawad, Rolla Barraq

We Will Survive Johnson Barraq

Death was passing through the pores of waiting / like fresh messages from the sky

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: June 2, 2022

I Cried Because You Told Me
by Abdulqader S. Al-Ghamdi, translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim

May 2, 2022 Contributed By: Abdulqader S. Al-Ghamdi, Elizabeth Johnson, Essam M. Al-Jassim

Cried Because Told Me

I recall the prickly pear shrub that never failed to pierce me as I tucked my skinny body behind it, trying to hide…

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: May 2, 2022

The Trembling Nasties
by William Luvaas

April 18, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, William Luvaas

Saturday Level and Full, 2021, oil on canvas, 48x60 by Elizabeth Johnson

I am told I was a happy, mischievous kid who smeared peanut butter on walls. Insatiably curious, I would sit down next to strangers on buses and start up conversations. I have heard that I liked to make people laugh. I don’t remember any of this.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: April 18, 2022

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GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING (full roundtable discussion)

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Aaron Burch, Anne McPeak, Ben George, Jacob Knabb, Jodee Stanley, Okla Elliott, Raymond Hammond

GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING What happens to lit mags in a recession? moderated by Okla Elliott responses by Jacob Knabb, Ben George, Aaron Burch, Raymond Hammond, Anne McPeak, and Jodee Stanley   Okla Elliott: Everyone is talking about the current economic situation in the US.  How is this affecting literary journals, and what are the […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Nonfiction Posted On: January 1, 2010

Contributor Bios for Issue 2 Winter 2010

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Aaron Burch, Alexander Keefe, Alyssa Pelish, Anne McPeak, Antara Datta, Anthony Key, Barbara Hamby, Ben George, C. J. Martin, Cai Yuan, Christopher Spranger, Chuck Richardson, Cindy M. Carter, Craig Nova, Dan Venne, Daniele Pantano, David Bowen, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Elizabeth Switaj, Geoffrey Gatza, Georg Trakl, Ida Stewart, Jacob Knabb, JJ Xi, Jodee Stanley, Joshua Ware, Kathy Fagan, Kent Johnson, Marcus Slease, Mark Smith-Soto, Marlon Frisby, Mary Kasimor, Maya Kóvskaya, Megan Gannon, Miles Waggener, Miriam Kotzin, Mithu Sen, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nicholas Manning, Nitoo Das, Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw, Rana Dasgupta, Randall Radic, Raul Clement, Raymond Hammond, Sabuhi Jiwani, Stephan Clark, T. P. Sabitha, T. R. Hummer, Tao Aimin, Tejal Shah, Tony Trigilio, William Hurst

Issue 2 Winter 2010 TAO AIMIN is known for her anthropological works made from the washboards of rural woman. Over the years she has collected thousands of these boards, recording the stories and faces of the women whose hands wore these boards down through the recursive repetition of monotonous labor. Creating installations and experimental ink […]

Filed Under: Contributor Bios Posted On: January 1, 2010

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 2 Winter 2010

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Aaron Burch, Alexander Keefe, Alyssa Pelish, Anne McPeak, Antara Datta, Anthony Key, Barbara Hamby, Ben George, C. J. Martin, Cai Yuan, Christopher Spranger, Chuck Richardson, Cindy M. Carter, Craig Nova, Dan Venne, Daniele Pantano, David Bowen, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Elizabeth Switaj, Geoffrey Gatza, Georg Trakl, Ida Stewart, Jacob Knabb, JJ Xi, Jodee Stanley, Joshua Ware, Kathy Fagan, Kent Johnson, Marcus Slease, Mark Smith-Soto, Marlon Frisby, Mary Kasimor, Maya Kóvskaya, Megan Gannon, Miles Waggener, Miriam Kotzin, Mithu Sen, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nicholas Manning, Nitoo Das, Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw, Rana Dasgupta, Randall Radic, Raul Clement, Raymond Hammond, Sabuhi Jiwani, Stephan Clark, T. P. Sabitha, T. R. Hummer, Tao Aimin, Tejal Shah, Tony Trigilio, William Hurst

ART curated by Maya Kóvskaya PRACTICES, POWER & THE PUBLIC SPHERE: Dialogical Space & Multiple Modernities in Asian Contemporary Art ART NONFICTION Maya Kóvskaya Public Action Art and Performative Interventions in the Chinese Public Sphere ART NONFICTION William Hurst (performance photography by Han Bing) ORPHANS OF PROGRESS: Workers and Political Discourse in Post-Socialist China ART […]

Filed Under: Issues Posted On: January 1, 2010

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