Salt
With salt as her anchor, catalyst, and metaphorical vehicle, Katharine Oden’s prose poem dives into the troubled waters of a mind. With artwork by Luchina Akhmad
Prayer
“Everything I like is like that man who first thought to take that picture of that starving black child waited for by that black vulture in that Sudan” – new prose poem by Tawanda Mulalu.
Limpieza pa’ la Tristeza
Cristalina Parra reflects on self-love and skincare in this stream of consciousness poem woven with her native Spanish
Utopia
A surreal take on our post-capitalist world, where “herds of cattle throw themselves into the flames of the Amazon,” by Tzy Jiun Tan.
Kadalamma speaks to me
A poem borne from the seas of the Gulf Corniche, Kerala, and spirit, by Aathma Nirmala Dious.
geomorphology
Lillian Snortland pairs Columbus’ travels with the representation of women in this striking new poem.
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.