It looked like a regular day—all business as usual—but I knew that the world had come to an end. People went about their business as if nothing had happened. And I, too, did all the same things. I woke up in the same bed, went into the same shower, used the same . . .
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In the original, Adam has my back—is my back—our bodies onebody. We take turnswalking forward. With each seeinghalf the world, we see it—from “Creation Stories,” Volume 62, Issue 2 (Summer 2021) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.As a kid who camped out in front of Teen Wolf whenever . . .
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Sitting next to me on the airplane is a man with a tattoo of a swastika.He is digging his thumbnail into an orange, dropping bits of skin ontothe carpet between our legs. Below the tattoo of the swastika is a tattooof a window with a view looking out onto a field with . . .
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Tell me, what does dusk doto Sydney Street, spent of allour afternoons, and I’ll teach youhow to say Novemberuntil it’s rent of moth and flame,its every last leaf a rhetorician,asking what is tether without float?—from “Leaving Chelsea”, Volume 62, Issue 2 (Summer 2021) Tell us about one of the first pieces you . . .
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. . .She was upright, lodged at one of the bigger brighter spas in the country,under her husband’s lover’s name. She was not in the pit, not in the silent, bottomless pool.And yet she was. Of course that was where she was.—from “Of the Mind,” Volume 62, Issue 2 (Summer 2021) Tell . . .
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for Judy Garland’s nameand your son’s birthdaysto hourglass out—from “Ever since Alzheimer’s cut a hole in your pocket”, Vol. 62, Issue 2 (Summer 2021) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.I wrote a poem in middle school I called “My Dearest Dear,” until recently still featured on what looked . . .
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Photo Credit: Marcela McGreal, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Young Asian Americans describe how they’re coming to terms with political differences at the dinner table and in society Tip #2: Understand the impact of traumas of the past Johnny Trinh, a 23-year-old from Westminster, a southern Californian city with the country’s . . .
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Photo Credit: Marcela McGreal, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Young Asian Americans describe how they’re coming to terms with political differences at the dinner table and in society When Jamie Gee joined a Black Lives Matter protest last year, the crowd marched peacefully through downtown Oakland until it got to the . . .
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I should write more about America and us naked in a river. You called me a coward as you pulled off your clothes.Not wanting to be a coward, I pulled off my clothers The midnight of a night slipping —from “Love Poem without Light,” Volume 62, Issue 2 (Summer 2021) Tell . . .
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Who’s to say just what it is that inspires a reader? To my mind, the writer who answers this question with the most force and clarity is Erri De Luca. But then, I would think that, since I translate him. Here’s what Erri says: “For those who stumble into a serendipitous reciprocity . . .
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