Essay
By Maya C. Popa
Laura Gilpin is best remembered as the author of “The Two-headed Calf.” Who was she, and why was her poetry career cut short?
Essay
By Layla Benitez-James
Embracing ambiguity in names and naming.
Poem
By Layla Benitez-James
Why is there (under this sea) always
an other sea? Scrolling through miles
of leopard-print bikinis, I wonder, could I go
“all out”? Just imagine where my cleavage should peak,...
an other sea? Scrolling through miles
of leopard-print bikinis, I wonder, could I go
“all out”? Just imagine where my cleavage should peak,...
Poem
By Beatriz Miralles de Imperial
Translated By Layla Benitez-James
I am an open wound
of language...
of language...
Poem
By Maya C. Popa
I can’t undo all I have done unto myself,
what I have let an appetite for love do to me....
what I have let an appetite for love do to me....
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Heartbeat trembling
your kingdom
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Translated By Kit Schluter
After tonight, what’s left of you is you moving into my
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After tonight, what’s left of you is you moving into my
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Once I learned I could have the last word
I couldn’t stop having
I couldn’t stop having
it.
Once I learned I could have the last word
I couldn’t stop having
I couldn’t stop having
it.
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Translated By Chun Yu
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