Courtesy of Chris Buhalis If you’re gone for good—if you’re history –I’ll know to search along rivers.I’ll look for bones, trace foundations,piece old shapes from shards. But time will take those, too.Strangers arriving with children will runthe length of the ruins for hide-and-seek,squeals of living delight.—from “Always Beside a River,” Volume 65, . . .
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@josephbrodsky puts on a snuggly tune,tweets a few words: “December. Like counting spoonsin the sideboard after a guest is gone.”Grins on rereading:this is the perfect tone. Gets up, goes to the window, looks out. It strikeshim that the day, still young, has grown dusky. Likea snowflake that—having lived a second in flight,fragile, . . .
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Willy-Brandt-Platz, Frankfurt, 03.02.2024. Banner reads: “Stop the criminalisation of Palestinian resistance and solidarity” Attribution: conceptphoto.info, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vogliamo Tutto Since I wrote “Staatsraison: Dispatch From Germany” six months ago, Germany has seen an avalanche of staatsraison attacks, supported across the political spectrum. These attacks have often been mobilized and . . .
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You were a wooden coat hanger.Your body, half-clothed. No hat could alter your looks.No gentleman’s hat that tipped to highlightYour smile. You were an exquisite gentleman’sCoat hanger, with pale skinny arms growing upward. The wood grain was fading, paler and paler.The winter, too, was half-clothed. No gentleman’s hatCould disguise the looks of . . .
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Photo: Free Derry/ Palestine (crop), by Ktoma. CC BY-SA 3.0 When the Tree rises up, the branchesShall flourish green and fresh in the sunThe laughter of the Tree shall leafBeneath the sunAnd birds shall returnUndoubtedly, the birds shall return. —Fadwa Tuqan, from “The Deluge and the Tree” The very title of Adam . . .
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Key Art by Trevor Davis Presented here is Carl Hancock Rux’s Artist Statement for his forthcoming Juneteenth celebration at Lincoln Center “It was while singing… the idea of escaping from slavery was first suggested to my mind.” —Frederick Douglass African American music is inseparable from the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the forced . . .
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Translated by Robin Myers, The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón is out with Archipelago Books. She has been published a couple times in MR, both as a poet and translator. Table for One, the short story colelction by Yun Ko-eun, translated by Lizzie Buehler, is out now from Columbia University Press. The titular story was . . .
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In some ways I regret how I thought about marriage on the day of my wedding, December 7, 2013. At the time, my partner and I believed that God had led us to one another, that divorce could only be a tragic last resort, and that it was my husband’s role as . . .
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On November 1, 2012—over ten years ago now—I awake to the sound of a generator . . . in another, wealthier building. It is Day Four of the blackout. I cover my nose from the chill in my unheated and lightless apartment. My husband, already awake, wraps his arms around me and . . .
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Margaret Cerullo (photo: Hampshire College) The excitement in Mexico and abroad about North America’s first woman president has dominated the headlines—almost to the exclusion of who Claudia Sheinbaum is, and what she stands for. How did she win, and how will she confront the enormous challenges facing Mexico, perhaps none more dramatic . . .
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