
February 2022
Cover artist: Haein Kim/CanvasHussain AhmedWhat song would you render,
On the eve of another storm?
- Muna Abdulahi
- Keith Donnell Jr.
- Julia Wong Kcomt
- Ninamarie Ochoa
- Jeremy Michael Clark
From this Issue
Poem
By Ada Limón
1
In the dew-saturated foot-high blades
of grass, we stand amongst a sea
of foals, mare and foal, mare and foal,
all over the soft hillside there are twos,
small duos ringing harmoniously in the cold,
swallows diving in and out, their fabled
forked tail where the story says the fireball
hit it as it flew to bring fire to humanity…
In the dew-saturated foot-high blades
of grass, we stand amongst a sea
of foals, mare and foal, mare and foal,
all over the soft hillside there are twos,
small duos ringing harmoniously in the cold,
swallows diving in and out, their fabled
forked tail where the story says the fireball
hit it as it flew to bring fire to humanity…
Poem
By Muna Abdulahi
I watch her mouth move, and I stumble over
the makings of her sound to get close to her.
I’ve lost all my favorite tusbax and scarves
in rooms half lit & full of vowels touching teeth.
The twisting of the tongue means nothing here.
I listen to my voice while another grasps for dinner.
I speak and eyes widen long into the night…
the makings of her sound to get close to her.
I’ve lost all my favorite tusbax and scarves
in rooms half lit & full of vowels touching teeth.
The twisting of the tongue means nothing here.
I listen to my voice while another grasps for dinner.
I speak and eyes widen long into the night…

Table of Contents
POEMS & COMMENT
- Suzi F. Garcia
- Ada Limón
- Hedgie Choi
- Muna Abdulahi
- Naomi Ortiz
- Camille T. Dungy, Brian Turner
- Sarah Gzemski
- The Cyborg Jillian Weise
- Soham Patel
- Giannina Braschi
- Leila Chatti
- Keith Donnell Jr.
- Brian Czyzyk
- Ninamarie Ochoa
- Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma, Khaty Xiong
- Jeremy Michael Clark
TRANSLATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- Juan Felipe Herrera
- Anthony Cody
- Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng
- Hussain Ahmed
- Edvard Munch
- Tytti Heikkinen
- Niina Pollari
- Rosa Chávez
- Irma Pineda
- Wendy Call
- Mikeas Sánchez
- Fei Ming 废名
- Yilin Wang
- Xiao Xi 小西
- Masaoka Shiki
- Julia Wong Kcomt
CONTRIBUTORS
- Muna Abdulahi
- Hussain Ahmed
- Giannina Braschi
- Wendy Call
- Victoria Chang
- Leila Chatti
- Hedgie Choi
- Rosa Chávez
- Jeremy Michael Clark
- Anthony Cody
- Brian Czyzyk
- Keith Donnell Jr.
- Camille T. Dungy
- Suzi F. Garcia
- Sarah Gzemski
- Tytti Heikkinen
- Juan Felipe Herrera
- Ada Limón
- Fei Ming 废名
- Edvard Munch
- Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng
- Ninamarie Ochoa
- Naomi Ortiz
- Soham Patel
- Irma Pineda
- Niina Pollari
- Prageeta Sharma
- Masaoka Shiki
- Mikeas Sánchez
- Brian Turner
- Yilin Wang
- The Cyborg Jillian Weise
- Julia Wong Kcomt
- Xiao Xi 小西
- Khaty Xiong