Category: Features

Ghayad Khatib

“Puzzle of Al Mujaydel” Oil painting and retracing collage digital art Ghayad Khatib’s journey intertwines art, architecture, and cultural preservation within the complexities of...

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zero

Nadine Channaoui just like that thirty-five thousand gone demolished killed starved diseased   one thousand for each year i have circled the sun another thousand for the circle my daughter has made...

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Jeanine Yacoub

“The View from Dad’s House” Kodak Gold 200 35mm film “Stone Walls and Nature” Fujifilm Superia 400 35mm film “Unfinished” Kodak Gold 200 35mm film...

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you did your duty

Majida Halaweh to you who look at me with pity in your eyes: i know your love for me makes you ask how i am but it does not extend beyond that.   i know you sit around lamenting my...

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Manal Deeb

“Beautiful Pali Woman” Digital art Manal Deeb is a Palestinian American visual artist born in Ramallah, Palestine and currently living in Fairfax, Virginia. Deeb’s artwork has been...

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If you were with me in the war

Gawad Elakkad Translated from the Arabic by Hazem Jamjoum & lisa minerva luxx Your fingers plunge into my palm   swaying like gazelles in the forest of the mind   I dream of them         a...

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Samar Hussaini

“Welcome All Exiles” Acrylic, ink, graphite and thread on canvas A multi-disciplinary artist and first-generation Palestinian American, Samar Hussaini’s paintings and sculptures are...

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53.2

2024 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Idaho Wolves by Kath Richards 2024 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner The Lyric Ear by Megan J. Arlett 2024 Spring Poetry Contest Winner self-portrait with three...

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The Process and the Witchcraft: An Interview with Nick White

by K.R. Mullins K.R. Mullins: Thank you so much for speaking with us! I want to start this off by just asking a little bit about your relationship to craft. How do you think about your process of...

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The Court of No Record by Jenny Molberg—Book Review

by Susan Muth & Tori Reynolds The tradition of the confessional mode is both continued and made anew in Jenny Molberg’s third book, The Court of No Record (LSU Press, 2023). Through documentary...

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