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May 2022
Make It Old; Cover Artist: SonnenzimmerDiotimus, tr. by Stephanie BurtIt’s hard work, I know, to shine all the time,
but it’s never pointless.
Sometimes it’s divine.
- Samson Allal
- Chelsea T. Hicks
- Bethany Handley
- Chase Berggrun
- Edgar Garcia
From this Issue
Poem
By Kristen Renee Miller
daughter, it’s working
it was your little midsummer
your misbegotten wander
now all but empty...
Poem
By Zhang Xun
Do not return to the king for some days; sunflowers and wild grains will serve the people. Store your money in your belt; the autumn winds stir your silks.
Colorful hibisci are boundless; the red quilts fold over the cold waves. This autumn night is so long: I feel lonely in the golden boudoir.
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Table of Contents
POEMS
- Srikanth Reddy
- Unknown
- Samson Allal
- Eirill Alvilde Falck
- Kristen Renee Miller
- Zhang Xun
- Bijaan Noormohamed
- Kat Addis
- Jeffrey Yang
- Estevam Coelho
- Richard Zenith
- Ovid
- Victoria Punch
- Heishikeyi
- Diotimus
- Stephanie Burt
- Charles Baudelaire
- Kim Parko
- Dante Alighieri
- Clare Louise Harmon
- Edgar Garcia
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Alice Fulton
- Vivek Narayanan
- Liu Xiang
- Haun Saussy
- Alfonsina Storni
- Malia Márquez
- Ishwar Gupta
- Rosinka Chaudhuri, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
- al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk
- James Montgomery
- Durs Grünbein
- Karen Leeder
- Empedocles
- Dan Beachy-Quick
- Chase Berggrun
- Mikajima Yoshiko
- James Garza
- Imru al-Qays
- Georges Henein
- Jay Deshpande
- Charlotte Davidson
- Yu Xuanji
- Lucas Klein
- Augusto dos Anjos
- Baz Martin Gibbons
- Muyaka Bin Haji
- Alex de Voogt
- Chelsea T. Hicks
- Josué Coy Dick, Jesse Nathan, Juan Coy Tení
- Eliot Weinberger
- Marie-Louise Eyres
- Peter Cole
- Hamdi Sahebqran
- Alana Marie Levinson-Labrosse, Shene Mohammed
- Giovanni Pascoli
- Mirabai
- Chloe Martinez
- Francesco Petrarca
- Bethany Handley
COMMENT
- Masaoka Shiki
CONTRIBUTORS
- Kat Addis
- Dante Alighieri
- Samson Allal
- Augusto dos Anjos
- Charles Baudelaire
- Dan Beachy-Quick
- Chase Berggrun
- Stephanie Burt
- Rosinka Chaudhuri
- Estevam Coelho
- Peter Cole
- Charlotte Davidson
- Jay Deshpande
- Josué Coy Dick
- Diotimus
- Empedocles
- Marie-Louise Eyres
- Eirill Alvilde Falck
- Alice Fulton
- Edgar Garcia
- James Garza
- Baz Martin Gibbons
- Durs Grünbein
- Ishwar Gupta
- Muyaka Bin Haji
- Bethany Handley
- Clare Louise Harmon
- Heishikeyi
- Georges Henein
- Chelsea T. Hicks
- Lucas Klein
- Karen Leeder
- Alana Marie Levinson-Labrosse
- Chloe Martinez
- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
- Kristen Renee Miller
- Mirabai
- Shene Mohammed
- James Montgomery
- Malia Márquez
- Vivek Narayanan
- Jesse Nathan
- Bijaan Noormohamed
- Ovid
- Kim Parko
- Giovanni Pascoli
- Francesco Petrarca
- Victoria Punch
- Srikanth Reddy
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Hamdi Sahebqran
- Haun Saussy
- al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk
- Masaoka Shiki
- Alfonsina Storni
- Juan Coy Tení
- Alex de Voogt
- Eliot Weinberger
- Liu Xiang
- Yu Xuanji
- Zhang Xun
- Jeffrey Yang
- Mikajima Yoshiko
- Richard Zenith
- Imru al-Qays
- Unknown