Two Poems
Issue 39 - Hiatus Tawanda Mulalu Issue 39 - Hiatus Tawanda Mulalu

Two Poems

“Saturday morning my hair meets this drain” and “Not a snow day” are two poems by Tawanda Mulalu that reckon with loving, existing, belonging, and all the gaps in between

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LETTER TO AMERIKA
Issue 33 - Service Mbizo Chirasha Issue 33 - Service Mbizo Chirasha

LETTER TO AMERIKA

A poem addressed to "war cooked in labs and ideologies hatched in test tubes," people "stripped of song," and foreign cultures recycled in ivory towers. Mbizo Chirasha dreams of a land of freedom that is actually free

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Appa
Issue 20 - Food Thirangie Jayatilake Issue 20 - Food Thirangie Jayatilake

Appa

“remind / my taste buds that they are alive” – in this evocative poem, Thirangie Jayatilake relishes the foods that connect her to families and cities.

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money
Issue 07 Vamika Sinha Issue 07 Vamika Sinha

money

An “open call for hopes and prayers”, Vamika Sinha explores New York as both capitalist hell and heaven.

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US Embassy
Issue 06 Tzy Jiun Tan Issue 06 Tzy Jiun Tan

US Embassy

“I wanted to punch Uncle Sam and scream” – Tzy Jiun Tan visits the US embassy in Malaysia, in a poem amid the Trump regime.

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gaborone #2
Issue 06 Vamika Sinha Issue 06 Vamika Sinha

gaborone #2

A mother files for a visa to see her son, a young black boy in America, from the sweaty rooms of the US embassy in Botswana.

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