March 2024 My father calls from Istanbul to tell me he’s on his way to Djibouti There he will wait for a summoning to Somalia Most of my life people asked ___________________ […]
Poetry
Three Poems
by Abboud al Jabiri
Translated from the Arabic by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp
All tears have homes.
I’ve never read about a homeless tear
nor have I met any of them rolling around in the streets
or seen a flood that resulted
from an outpouring of weeping.
Is Pantomime
by J. Parker Marvin
Caustic neurosis of the pantomime king :: there is not a necessity in legend :: we breathe the oxygenated fiction :: a flurry of streams mitigating the gap of the outward push :: the necessity of discard is considered the great lie :: we are asked to masturbate into glass :: but […]
Three Poems by Alfonsina Storni,
translated from the Spanish by Norman Weinstein and Celia Gil Llamas
Zoological garden of clouds I’ve got to sing to the cloud overhead: Here’s to you, tender teddy bear, your lover kisses another cottony cloud, and when you bite it, the cloud disperses. And there’s the snake that chased me in my dreams, this one: and then there’s a pink heron coming from the river, and […]
FANGS
by Camille Newsom
Belly up with bloody bums,
bloated, stiff and calm.
Blind Fish
by Joan Kwon Glass
In the photograph, wildflowers everywhere, I am seven years old. In Northern Michigan, sand shifts with my father’s mood. We are standing in the lake, water shimmering around our ankles. Minnows in their nervous schools dart, always toward each other, breathing in what other species breathe out below the surface. That summer, I believed all […]
Poem That Takes Place in a Human Hand
by Glen Armstrong
The air is very cold.
Do you want to continue?
Apparition
by Mya Matteo Alexice
there were weeks when my body unmoored itself from self-ownership and became hers & theirs & his. so caught up I was with remembering how to belong to someone. as in, eyeing the swell of my ass in the shower and wondering how much of its volume one hand could clutch; not seeing my own […]
New Media/Digital Poetry and the Body
by Amanda Hodes
<h1> The body is. The body is not. What is the body when it is not the body? What can a body be when it is not the body? Is the body ever just the body? What is the body even when we claim it is not the body? </h1> <h2> This is what I […]
Pure Deseo
Raquel Gutiérrez
There is a mountain afraid to lose its place in the landscape. One of the many lands to give back but I don’t know how. Inhale comfort into these contested terrains, extracting answer for a question unimaginable. I had a dream that José Muñoz showed up wearing a wine-town plaid sky, a blue windbreaker smiling […]