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As a child, you hate sticking out the way you do: weird house, weird family, weird language. But your father calls you a princess, claims his uncle had sworn to royal blood even on his dying day. Regardless of …
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Tohid
I’ve been scrolling through twitter for hours, watching my countries revolution through social media. It’s overwhelming. Can I hope? Hope has led to heartbreak so many times. I see an image of a man in Tehran holding a sign reading …
Testing a Pattern / Replicas / Swim, Swam, Swum
Testing a Pattern
I’ve watched someone who needed air
pitch a loose fist through her own window.
It was the second time I watched her die.
My mouth is a window open.
I hang heavy toile curtains—a scene
of a …
Hoss Kojast
ARTIST’S STATEMENT This is a story of disappearances that cannot be assimilated. Even though the Iranian diaspora of the 1980s had managed an escape, for the majority it was not a great escape. We were largely upper middle class families …
lost in her hair (monday)
My childhood was marked by documentations of a lot of firsts. My family, sharing my aunt’s lone mini-DV camcorder among their whole big group, has decided what the pivotal moments to be captured for me were. I have often asked …
Whisper My Name / 9,272.70 Miles
Whisper My Name (2009)
Embracing the element of chance and offering symbolic interpretation, this video is a visual diary of an artist’s journey back to her childhood school in Dehkadeh, Iran. The empty rooms and their decayed elements resonate with …
The Blue Sky
The sky is not blue in all places
There are mountains, there are trees
There are no mountains, there are trees
Yet the sky here is higher
The shadows follow me
The outlines around the objects
My imagination of the …
Issue 49: Fall / Winter 2022
Contributors: Diana Valenzuela, Briana Bhola, Gabriela Barre, Wancy Young Cho, Brandon Haffner, Darina Sikmashvili, Rachel Rabbit White, Mercedes Lawry, Theodora Ziolkowski, Lilith Acadia, Caroline Laganas, V. Batyko, Sarah Cavar, Adele Williams, Chrisopher Shipman, Elizabeth Rogers, Kirie Pedersen, Kyla Marshell
Issue 48: Spring / Summer 2022
Contributors: Breanna Henry, Charlie Coulter, Melanie Hucklebridge, Allison Field Bell, Roy Kesey, Frances Ogamba, Kaylie Saidin, Morgan Eklund, Shelby Clark, P. Hodges Adams, Brian Cyzyk, Brandi George, Supritha Rajan, Oksana Maksymchuk, Susan Meyers, Danielle Shorr
Introducing Issue 43: This Hustle Is Not Your Grandpa’s African Lit
When African literature is published in the West, it is all too often realist, in English, and in the spirit of Chinua Achebe. But romance, science fiction, fantasy, epic, experimental poetry, satire, and political allegory all find expression in Africa, …
