Hannah Coakley 7/31/21 Hannah Coakley 7/31/21

Admission Paperwork

TW: eating disorders.
New in our milk & vodka column, a poem exploring a “body bound to / persistence & disaster”

Tawanda Mulalu 7/29/21 Tawanda Mulalu 7/29/21

April

“I listen for you while the heater / boils-up sunlight for winter’s end.” A new lyric poem by Tawanda Mulalu writes across distance

Emel Karakozak 7/26/21 Emel Karakozak 7/26/21

Chaosmos

Turkish artist Emel Karakozak explores the fictions of human bodies in flux through this haunting series of images, somewhere between lonely and free.

Mallika Bhaumik 7/16/21 Mallika Bhaumik 7/16/21

Postcard

Kolkata-based poet Mallika Bhaumik writes a summer pastoral, revelling in the lyricism of jasmines, letters, fireflies, rice, and sunlight

Neetha Kurup 7/11/21 Neetha Kurup 7/11/21

Forbidden to See Us Scream in Tehran: A Poignant Reflection on Women’s Voices in Iran

New in our b-roll column, Bangalore-based writer Neetha Kurup reviews Iranian director Farbod Ardebili’s new short film, which comments on the heavy metal scene, feminism, voicelessness, and disability within Tehran

Andrea Salerno Jácome 7/8/21 Andrea Salerno Jácome 7/8/21

Al Satwa

Venezuelan photographer Andrea Salerno Jácome shares a photo essay on the Satwa neighborhood in her current base Dubai, accompanied with both Spanish and English versions of a reflection on being a migrant in this ‘temporary city’

Tawanda Mulalu 7/6/21 Tawanda Mulalu 7/6/21

Hamlet Tries Prozac

A tender lyric by Tawanda Mulalu reimagines Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship in an altered world

Joe Sonnenblick 6/25/21 Joe Sonnenblick 6/25/21

Two Poems

In “Complete Terms and Conditions” and “Devilkin”, poet Joe Sonnenblick takes on common existentialist queries, navigating loss, contentment, bereavement and the self

Mel Adún 6/20/21 Mel Adún 6/20/21

two thousand and twenty

Originally in Brazilian Portuguese, with an English translation by Sarah Rebecca Kersley, Black feminist poet Mel Adún reflects on the day-to-day griefs of the pandemic in this haunting lyric

Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha 6/6/21 Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha 6/6/21

Poet Rabha Ashry on ‘loving the alien’, Black Sunflowers, and Playing Foreigner

Winner of the 2020 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, Rabha Ashry probes her different identities, navigating Arabness, queerness and more, in her chapbook “loving the alien”, published by UK’s first crowdfunded poetry press Black Sunflowers. Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha reviews her poems and talks to Ashry about her process and practice

Israa Al Balushi & Dominika Jezewska 5/21/21 Israa Al Balushi & Dominika Jezewska 5/21/21

The Anatomy of Perception | تشريح الإدراك الفكري

Fatema Al Fardan 4/18/21 Fatema Al Fardan 4/18/21

Process: A Mentee’s Experience in Warehouse421 x Gulf Photo Plus Artistic Development Program

Artist Fatema Al Fardan reflects on her experience as a participant in an Abu Dhabi-based artistic development program, providing an in depth account of her building a photography exhibit in the midst of a pandemic

Postscript Magazine 4/12/21 Postscript Magazine 4/12/21

A Note From the Editors: Issue 38

Jood AlThukair 4/12/21 Jood AlThukair 4/12/21

supplication

In this rich, melancholic lyric, Jood AlThukair weaves together languages, emotions and rhythms like rippling waves

Bhoomika Ghaghada 4/12/21 Bhoomika Ghaghada 4/12/21

A Gulf Between Me and My Father | અખાત – મારા અને મારા પપ્પા વચ્ચે નો.

In this personal memoir piece, UAE-born writer Bhoomika Ghagada weaves together hers and her father's personal histories in the city of Dubai, into a thread that links up the gulf between parent and child (both English and Gujarati versions available)

Alex Howe 4/12/21 Alex Howe 4/12/21

Spotless

"I have arranged the sludge of this self into a body" declares Alex Howe in this poem that cleans its way through the debris of being alive

Kai-Luen Liang 4/12/21 Kai-Luen Liang 4/12/21

Blue Marbles

This multimedia project meditates on the connections between the labor and physical materials involved in the production of surveillance camera hardware, data management, and the rituals of documentation, exploring the seemingly “mundane” and “common” aspects of surveillance culture in the use of communication/social media apps to document life

Ron Morita 4/12/21 Ron Morita 4/12/21

A Palestinian Sunset

In this deliciously unsettling short story, Ron Morita pulls at the seams of a curious, fatal bond between a little girl and her doll

Shurooq Amin 4/12/21 Shurooq Amin 4/12/21

It’s a Man’s World

Shurooq Amin's works portray the dichotomy of the Arab man and his search for identity, addressing current political dilemmas and parodies in a society that cannot exist without double standards, hypocrisy, and secret, private lives

Votey Cheav 4/12/21 Votey Cheav 4/12/21

my father’s only friend

In this memoir-poetry project, Cambodia-based lawyer and poet Votey Cheav reflects on a powerful, transformative friendship that carried her father through his journey from a refugee camp to America