Kasheer, After
Nonfiction by Pravy Jha. “Kasheer, after, does not exist as a place one returns to. It persists in fragments, in what has been carried forward without being fully resolved ...”
Consequence
Consequence addresses the realities and experiences of war and geopolitical violence through literature and art in order to promote a more nuanced understanding of what’s at stake in choosing to wage war or engage in conflict.
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Horror and Rhetoric: The Poetry of Wilfred Owen
By Gunilla T. Kester. “Perhaps, the power of Owen’s voice stems from this tension between the naked horror of what he describes and the rich rhetoric he uses to capture the consequences of war.”
Rules of Engagement
Poetry by Gloria Ogo. "They don’t issue dreams. / Just rations, rounds, radio static. / But I keep dreaming of the dog I shot / because it barked too close."
A Name in Several Alphabets: Marina Blitshteyn’s form a more perfect
A review by Philip Nikolayev. "The question running through the poems is therefore less 'Who am I?' than 'What in me was given, what was forced upon me, and what can I still do with it?'”
In the Same Tongue
Nonfiction by Sayani De. "Because stories need to be told for the larger collective, for the personal in larger histories, so that they can help to remember, resist, and transform."
Rubble
Poetry by Lloyd Schwartz. "And writing handbooks. // Who could possibly want those // But how better, the young scholar asks, for people in Gaza to learn the English language?"
Landmine!
Fiction by Brian Alarcon. "I am doing well, despite what is said. Exile doesn’t exist; for me it’s enough to walk around the property in circles, heaving."
Concrete Cathedral
Poetry by J. Raymond Bennett. "The bunker shook amid the thud of counterfire, / sand gritted through the cracks of our cathedral / where camel spiders worshipped, / trailing our shadows like monks."
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"Highway Memorial" & "Gettysburg Battlefield Segway Tour"
Poetry by Hugh Martin. "Coasting past Plum Run, / which ran—our licensed Battlefield Guide, Carol, explains—red / with blood, Wayne jokes, 'Didn’t / the monuments get in the way?'”
The A4 Revolution in China
By C. J. Anderson-Wu. "... many protesters remained silent while holding up blank sheets of paper, the demonstrations represented one of the largest visible expressions of public dissent ..."
That I Return to You
By İlhan Sami Çomak. Translated from Turkish by Jeffrey Kahrs & Mete Özel. A poem that evokes confinement without naming it directly, moving toward a return that is at once emotional and imaginative.