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Further Reading
Agua De Mayo
by Orland Agustin Solis
translated from the Hiligaynon by Eric Abalajon
Orland Agustin Solis is an emerging poet in Hiligaynon. Using visceral nature themes and urgent verbs, his poems often tackle themes of persistent feudalism especially in Western Visayas, Philippines.
Three Poems
by Margarita Losada Vargas, Translated from the Spanish by Maddie Kwasnick
PIETÀ i am asking permission to die a little to tear your membrane to expel you from my uterus you will never suffer the weight of light nor the wounds of a scream you will be my most beloved exile you will be the air that nourishes my garden of […]
Detroit
by Ian Haight
I. On graduation day, President Bush gave the university’s commencement speech, but when I left the campus gates, Dad whispered Steelcase closed another plant. Only a skeleton crew runs the day shift, touching up paint on machines. Rich friends from Detroit offered work. How little college had prepared me. Deceiving smiles, a compliment laid for a favor— so […]
