Carlos Paez & Ahmed Ashour 10/28/21 Carlos Paez & Ahmed Ashour 10/28/21

Stories I Want to Tell

Farah Fawzi Ali 10/28/21 Farah Fawzi Ali 10/28/21

Time for Tea: Reminiscing Routines

New in our invisible cities column, Farah Fawzi Ali uses the medium of tea-infused memories in different cities to weave a tender personal essay

HLR 10/28/21 HLR 10/28/21

A Brief History of Tea

“Daddy used to write in my birthday cards, ‘I love you more than all the tea in China.’ That’s a lot of tea and a lot of love.” — new in arts & culture by HLR

Ghina Athirah Furqan 10/28/21 Ghina Athirah Furqan 10/28/21

Karak Chai

Ghina Athirah Furqan’s recipe-memoir is a soft retelling of family

Yesmine Abida 10/28/21 Yesmine Abida 10/28/21

> on my iPhone

A memoir of family, New York streets, grocery items, crushes, and more, made entirely out of iPhone notes.

Connor White 10/28/21 Connor White 10/28/21

The Great Chalkboard War

A short, spiky story detailing a catastrophic event at a school

Leandro Reyes 10/28/21 Leandro Reyes 10/28/21

Sugarcoats

Filipino creative Leandro Reyes’ wistful poem ponders a lost connection. With art by Luchina Akhmad

Amal Al Shamsi 10/28/21 Amal Al Shamsi 10/28/21

The Jig is Up

Amal Al Shamsi’s poem cuts across a black cat’s path and worries itself about the impending, over tea

Shalini Corea 10/28/21 Shalini Corea 10/28/21

Golden Shovel for ‘I’m a Little Teapot’ by George Sanders and Clarence Kelley

When communication sputters like a kettle – a poem by Shalini Corea

Kirill Hwan 10/28/21 Kirill Hwan 10/28/21

Teahouse

Kirill Hwan’s ‘Teahouse’ series presents a photographic ethnography of a village teahouse in China’s Zhejiang province

Henry Hu 10/28/21 Henry Hu 10/28/21

Passing Parade

In this photographic series, Henry Hu focuses on the stolen moments in between

Wilda Morris 10/28/21 Wilda Morris 10/28/21

Teatime

A small rainy day poem over a cup of Bengal Spice. With an accompanying multimedia piece by Malak Quota

Mashael Alsaie 10/28/21 Mashael Alsaie 10/28/21

Writing

Bahraini artist Mashael Alsaie’s poetry experiments and plays with language, memory and childhood – both bildungsroman and encapsulation of wry melancholia

Thom Atkinson 10/28/21 Thom Atkinson 10/28/21

Tea

Thom Atkinson’s ‘Tea’ series looks at the quiet rituals of tea drinking and examines the micro-theatre surrounding the British cup of tea.

Robert Harrison 10/28/21 Robert Harrison 10/28/21

Tea with Lemon

TEA WITH LEMON (dir. Robert Harrison) is a quirky indie comedy film about a clueless poet/café regular who attempts to charm a waitress by learning her mother tongue. But she is too preoccupied by her failing marriage to notice his futile efforts

Livia Fālcaru 10/28/21 Livia Fālcaru 10/28/21

Matcha Adventure

Livia Fālcaru’s whimsical and quirky illustrations describe her warm, comforting relationship with green tea

Danabelle Gutierrez 10/28/21 Danabelle Gutierrez 10/28/21

All of that Damned Alice Imagery

A love poem colored by Alice in Wonderland. With art by Marina Alaeva

John Osborne 10/28/21 John Osborne 10/28/21

Two Poems

‘Looking for the tea bags’ and ‘The milk aisle’ are two poems by John Osborne that navigate care, grief, loss, and love through the ordinary paraphernalia of tea ingredients

Vamika Sinha 10/28/21 Vamika Sinha 10/28/21

mint tea: a summertime lyric

A piece of free verse from Rabat, Morocco, where a woman navigates (mis)belonging, visas, and mobility