Book Review
I’ll Show Them That Anne Frank Wasn’t Born Yesterday!
“I HAVE MADE A rough sketch of my underground palace,” Anne Frank wrote in her diary on June 14, 1942. “I hope that this wish of mine will be fulfilled one Continue reading
Justice
Poem
Tururucari-Uka Village
Translated from the Portuguese by Tiffany Higgins When Euaracy awakens Her rays come to greet us Showing the day has begun And it’s time to work.The Kambeba people’s village Isn’t just Continue reading
Poem
A Hungry Nation
Who would like to plant mines in the fatherland? I know how to plant a potato in the soft earth, something our fathers learned from their fathers.Who would like to Continue reading
Feature
New Narratives from Discards and Divides
SIX YEARS AGO, WHILE VISITING my family in the former steel town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, I saw something unexpected in a vacant lot. Someone had built a large wooden sculpture and, Continue reading
Feature
On Carrying Our Dead
I. Hello, winter. Hello, earthen path. Drained stone pond. Where is your water? Where are the koi? Hello, snow-shouldered corkscrew pine. Hello, ginkgoes. Hello, hello. After being closed for nearly a Continue reading