Go Back, Go Back
A lens-based photo project, “Go Back, Go Back” explores the spatial, historical, and technological ambiguity of memory
Space/Time
As an Iranian female artist based in Arkansas, Ziba Rajabi’s work revolves around the desire to reconcile her relationship with two distinctive spaces: her homeland, Tehran, and place of residence, Arkansas.
“Careless” & Others
A series of artworks by Seattle-based artist Alice Mao.
Ode to Growth: Interview with Moonga K.
"My habitats are people," shares Joburg-based indie singer Moonga K. "People I have deep, meaningful friendships with. People and spaces where I don’t feel alone. People I’ve lodged in my heart and mind indefinitely."
Seven forgettings in slow descent (Isles of the Snails, Trinidad)
Gilberte O’Sullivan unpacks Trinidadian island history in this new poem.
Private War: Haiku Series
Continuing the haiku series with an exploration of the battleground that is 'home' and inner torment, by Louise Gerodias.
They're All Coming With Me
Three illustrations by Philadelphia artist, Caitlin Peck, on the meaning of space.
he is a town
Imagining a relationship as a city, a possible home. New in poetry, by Zoe Jane Patterson.
Haiku Series: Hearth
Continuing our haiku series with "hearth" a collection of poems about what it means to be home.
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.
Noxchi Eats Galnish
“Garlic, heavy salty bone broth, steaming pasta-like galnish and tender lamb: the way to any Chechen’s heart” – Anita Shishani discusses galnish, a food integral to her memory and heritage.
Black Kitchen
An ode to Southern cooking and AAVE.
HOME
“this will not be your diaspora poem: / we have enough milk & honey” – new in milk & vodka, Vamika Sinha writes on brown bodies and belonging.
"Sayang"
“you peel shrimps carefully / as if they will tell you the secrets to being pinoy” – in this rich, imagistic poem, Jamie Uy traces her Filipino culture and history through childhood tastes and foods.
Aircraft Cabin
A tender poem on identifying home in impermanence, movement and transience.
powerful woman
“and what is a line but divide but a border but fate but a worry” – Vamika Sinha explores her postcolonial identity trapped between two sides of the equator, and reclaiming power over her sense of belonging as a woman.
fourth wall
“home is old / selves trapped / in the flaking paint / of the fourth wall” - Vamika Sinha presents nostalgia for the childhood home in this new poem.
On Writing in English
“My relationship with English began with the need to forsake my origin, to renounce my identity” — Dayin Wijaya unspools the tangle between his Indonesian heritage with the prevalence of English language education in his life.
Q Train
A traveler’s poem, set in New York City.
Alien
“I’m caught on the hook like a / Gasping fish and then laid on ice” – Tzy Jiun Tan navigates the city as an outsider, a woman, what makes her “alien.”