When You Are Dying | Dmitry Blizniuk
Poetry reading by Uche Anaekwe When you are dying, the electric snow of oblivion falls slowly on the soft apricot pores of the brain that is growing cold. The snowfall…
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November 2023
17 posts
Not It | John Paul Caponigro
It’s not an it and neither am I. Nature is a verb, I am a doing. I’m done with it. It is half of the shit we do to us.…
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Landscape of the Partisan | Junaid Ahmed Ahangar
Words fall off this knitting needle as I spin a yarn of moonlit memories the stitches keep growing larger and before I know I have spun myself a sweater made…
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Ajegunle | Abdullah Jimoh O.
Two three-storey buildings having a street splinter them like a sternum dividing the ribs, peer into the eyes of each other with candidness. I live in one of them, the…
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A Portrait of a Group of Girls | Khaloud Al-Muttalibi
Two years after Tal Afar’s liberation from ISIS, Zhiyan, the young woman who survived the most brutal attack, painted a disturbing portrait of a group of girls. The crimson-red slams…
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A Lesson on Gratitude | I Echo
“I came here because Ghanaians are having difficulties and suffering. It is my responsibility to try and help because if it is a question of counting who votes for me…
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Revisiting Ghosts: A Conversation with Maaza Mengiste on Fiction, Ethiopia, and Dark Histories
Maaza Mengiste received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from New York University. A novelist, essayist, and photographer, she is the author of the novel, The Shadow…
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