June 2023
Cover artist: Tré SealsHush, listen, thisJoan Larkin
song has a thousand verses.
- Marwa Helal
- Sa Whitley
- Joan Larkin
- Latif Askia Ba
- Noah Eli Gordon
From this Issue
Poem
By Donika Kelly
I catalog what I cannot capture:
the sun, its ragged stumble into rockface,
the precise elevation of this plateau or the next,
the sea, of course, against which everything is measured...
Poem
By LaWanda Walters
It was the little Bible I had on my lap—the New
Testament. It was “white patent,” like my shoes.
It might be a clutch purse, I felt,
and I was being admirably still and quiet...
Table of Contents
Poems
- Adrian Matejka
- Donika Kelly
- Kuhu Joshi
- LaWanda Walters
- sam sax
- MICHAEL CHANG
- Noah Eli Gordon
- Sandra Simonds
- Janice N. Harrington
- John Kinsella
- Omar Sakr
- Jacob Shores-Argüello
- Latif Askia Ba
- Joan Larkin
- Anna Gual
- Sa Whitley
When Can I See You Again:
The Poetry of Joyce Mansour, Translated by Emilie Moorhouse
- Marwa Helal
- Joyce Mansour
- “Fièvre ton sexe est un crabe”
- “Fever your sex is a crab”
- “Il n’y a pas de mots”
- “There are no words”
- “Hurlements d’une montagne qui accouche”
- “Shrieks from a mountain giving birth”
- “Je suis la nuit”
- “I am the night”
- “Je veux dormir avec toi coude à coude”
- “I want to sleep with you elbow to elbow”
- Genève
- Geneva
- Rhabdomancie
- Dowsing
- Léger comme une navette le désir
- Light as a Shuttle Desire
- Séance tenante
- Right Away
- From “Trous noirs”
- From “Black Holes”
- Marion Kalter
- The Editors
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