Space/Time
Issue 27 - Masks Ziba Rajabi Issue 27 - Masks Ziba Rajabi

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.

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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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Noxchi Eats Galnish
Issue 20 - Food Anita Shishani Issue 20 - Food Anita Shishani

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.

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"Sayang"
Issue 18 - Bodies Jamie Uy Issue 18 - Bodies Jamie Uy

"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.

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powerful woman
Issue 11 Vamika Sinha Issue 11 Vamika Sinha

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.

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fourth wall
Issue 11 Vamika Sinha Issue 11 Vamika Sinha

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.

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On Writing in English
Issue 10 Dayin Wijaya Issue 10 Dayin Wijaya

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.

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Alien
Issue 08 Tzy Jiun Tan Issue 08 Tzy Jiun Tan

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.”

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