Editors’ Note: The Mission and Future of Postscript
EICs Vamika Sinha and Zoe Patterson reflect on the evolution of this magazine, and their future plans for the publication.
i want to wear a qípáo too
“culture-repairers don’t want to read just dead white men or / wear them—so make this qípáo’s slit awful high!” – in a work of jazz poetry, Samantha Neugebauer thinks through the dilemmas of globalization and cultural appropriation.
Hazed
“After we finished crying there was still a lot to do” – Hazed is a short collection of poetry on the total penetration of the palm oil industry in our daily life, as well as its oft unseen effects on animals, plants, and indigenous communities.
A True War Story
Vamika Sinha retells the water buffalo scene from Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story”, from the perspective of another soldier.
what kind of city is florence?
“how to reconcile this heaven of art with the hell you read of in dante’s inferno / of corrupt florentines and popes who abused their office / how to see past the peeling paint / to demolished jewish quarters and feuding noblemen and the scorched poor and their burned-down houses” – new in invisible cities, Jamie Uy writes about her time in Italy.
Nantes is on Fire
Jordan McDonald offers a forgotten history of the African slave trade in the French city of Nantes, and its legacy today.
unMute
“Moon-muscles” and “burning sun towers” collide in this poem by S K Garcia.
Geography IV
New in invisible cities, Neha John writes a series of observational poems about her hometown Dubai, inspired by The Little Prince and Elizabeth Bishop.
Spell Criminal With a 'K'
New in milk & vodka, Ava J Serra intersperses a Lady Gaga speech, rage at Brett Kavanaugh and protest against misogyny and rape culture in this feminist poem.
The voice saying in French
Ruobing Sabrina Zhao wades through French philosophy, weaving her native Mandarin into this poem.
Fleeting Royal Soles
Take a walk with S K Garcia through this new poem.