Deliver
A girl bruised by heartbreak. A taxi driver with unsaid prayers. One gives the other money, the other something intangible. Vamika Sinha's new poem explores a moment of mutual transaction
LETTER TO AMERIKA
A poem addressed to "war cooked in labs and ideologies hatched in test tubes," people "stripped of song," and foreign cultures recycled in ivory towers. Mbizo Chirasha dreams of a land of freedom that is actually free
Right This Way
Morgan Kelly's welding work presents metal in a form that does not match its intended function. In this series, Kelly's works examine the consumer-service relationship and the burden of capitalism's demands on service workers
The Liftman
"Tucked into one corner of the small lift, he leaned against the back wall and diligently pressed the buttons all day." A short story set in Kolkata, India about a schoolgirl's growing awareness of a service worker
Patriarchal Woman
Chilean artist Matías Alvial's artwork interrogates the ways in which the eyes of a patriarchal society see women: as domestic and sexual servants
Machine Learning
"I forced a bot to formulate a romance novel blurb from the data set of the times I felt most myself." A new prose poem exploring the cyberverse and how it formulates fluid genders and selves