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
Planting M&Ms
A new prose poem on life as an immigrant in the Gulf, by Aathma Nirmala Dious.
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.
incessant
Elyazyeh Al Falacy's stream of consciousness poem toes nihilism and modernity.
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.
Montrouge
A prose poem on Paris, a “gash in the ground”
Out of the corner of my eyes
Sculptures, statues, surrealism — Chiran Raj Pandey’s new short story swivels from cafes to museums to Mughal emperors.
It Comes in Pieces
A coming-of-age prose poem of a young girl becoming woman.
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: Depicting Abstract Emotions in Writing
How can one distil or display, accurately, the complexity of something like love, or loneliness, in a single text? Vamika Sinha analyzes the work of Jamaican-American poet Claudia Rankine, and her poetic diagnoses of modern American society.
Mother
A mother and daughter meet across time, its silences and absences.
Gas-and-Light
A vibrant, raging poem about the phenomenon of gaslighting.
Bambi Eyes
“Girls are cuter with their mouths closed” - a boy takes advantage of a girl. This is how it feels.