One morning, as I sat on the beach near the displacement camp where I live, I was scrolling through my phone when I came across a post about my city, Rafah. It was written in the past tense, as if the city no longer existed. I reached into my bag and touched . . .
Read More
Photo credit: Sarah Deragon Note: This is an edited transcription of an interview conducted over Zoom. The full interview, featuring more in-depth answers and back-and-forths, is available below. Gunawan reads the poem “Go Back Home” from 14:45–16:25. Tell us about your relationship to translation. My God, where do I start? I feel like . . .
Read More
Photo credit: “2015 Dron DJI Phantom 3 Advanced,” from Wikimedia Commons. I have become an expert in distinguishing the sounds of Israeli death blasts. The roar of warplanes. The relentless thump of shelling. Each day in Gaza is a new battle to navigate the different cacophonies of Israel’s massacres. But it’s the . . .
Read More
Tell us about your relationship to writing.I started keeping a journal in my early twenties as a way of organizing my thoughts. Before that I didn’t write much and I never considered myself a very literary person. When I was 27, I took a poetry workshop at City College of San Francisco . . .
Read More
Cortney Lamar Charleston (65.3)’s new collection, It’s Important I Remember, is out now from Northwestern University Press. Matthew E. Henry (62.2)’s latest collection, promises to keep, is out from Wayfarer Books. Winner of the 2019 Anne Halley poetry prize, Amit Majmudar (59.4) has a new collection of poems from Knopf: Things My . . .
Read More
Photo credit: Eloi Scarva Note: This is an edited transcription of an interview conducted over Zoom. The full interview, featuring more in-depth answers and back-and-forths, is available below. Gómez reads his poem “Fillers” from 11:06–13:17. Tell us about your relationship to writing, especially poetry. It was a very, very long shot for me . . .
Read More
Photos of Muzan Alneel, photographed and shared by her husband Ahmed Mahmoud. Wednesday April 15, 2026, the third anniversary of the outbreak of Sudan’s counterrevolutionary war, was also marked by news of the death of Sudanese engineer, activist, intellectual, and visionary Muzan Abuobaida Alneel. Born in Omdurman, Sudan in 1986, Muzan was . . .
Read More
“Who needs it? Eyes rolled back, hand planted thickin lemon cake. Sure. Let’s call it lemoncake. She hives and dissolves, an unearthing…” —from Shira Erlichman’s “Nude IV” (Volume 67, issue 1) What’s been inspiring you recently? The On the Calculation of Volume series by Solvej Balle. Reading the first novel was a . . .
Read More
Note: This is an edited transcription of a longer interview, which is available in full here (music by Nicolaas Stulting): Tell us about your relationship to translation, especially between Russian + English. I’ve always been a massive reader and lover of language and words. And once I had even the smallest foothold . . .
Read More
Since 2014, Ramadan in Gaza has repeatedly arrived under the shadow of war. From Israel’s attack in 2014, to the escalation in 2021, and the ongoing genocide that has cast its shadow over the holy months of 2024, 2025, and 2026, for more than a quarter of the past decade the sacred . . .
Read More