La Espera
La Espera is an original piano composition accompanied with an original collage artwork by Spanish artist Bea Montero
Two Poems
Sharjah-based poet Jared Maxilom’s two poems “Cassandra as a Catalonan at Election Night” and “Balang Araw” dig deep into music and the ravines of Filipino political news. With artwork by Leyton Cassidy
Ladies in Waiting
A short story by Kayla Koontz takes place in a vague, fantastical nowhere island, offering a gendered, implicit critique of the futility of imperialist conquest
कहीं एक मौसम (Kahin Ek Mausam) | Somewhere A Season
The short film 'कहीं एक मौसम' (Somewhere A Season), directed by Harsh Hudda, is about लय (the rhythm) of change within the continuity of life in a distant forest and the lingering of the past in the present
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
Archaeologies of the Environment
Through painting, Mexican artist Fernanda Morales Tovar creates a visual archaeology based on interpretations and proposals of signs for the intersection of spaces, human beings, stories, ruins, and the landscape
Bells and Whistles
A short, nail-biting story about an oncoming train. With artwork by Pawel Pacholec
Cyber Fantasy
Cyber Fantasy challenges the borders of the frame and the screen by digitizing and manipulating the traditional still life to further investigate its place in post-Internet art
A Note from the Editor: Issue 41
Stories I Want to Tell
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
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
Karak Chai
Ghina Athirah Furqan’s recipe-memoir is a soft retelling of family
> on my iPhone
A memoir of family, New York streets, grocery items, crushes, and more, made entirely out of iPhone notes.
The Great Chalkboard War
A short, spiky story detailing a catastrophic event at a school
Sugarcoats
Filipino creative Leandro Reyes’ wistful poem ponders a lost connection. With art by Luchina Akhmad
Two Poems
Two poems by Kurt Van Ristell use the political and colonial history of tea to reflect on a complicated identity and how it is perceived by others
The Jig is Up
Amal Al Shamsi’s poem cuts across a black cat’s path and worries itself about the impending, over tea
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
Teahouse
Kirill Hwan’s ‘Teahouse’ series presents a photographic ethnography of a village teahouse in China’s Zhejiang province