To find a priceless home
You sift through hours
of tongues you find a ring
to echo and binding
an eye strewn on your wrist...
Fall for the Book: Writing Africa Panel
The panel featured readings by Helon Habila, E. C. Osondu, and Susi Wyss. These three distinct voices offered engaging and completely different stories inspired by...
Letter from the Editor
Of course, if you’re reading this, then chances are you’re already familiar with the magazine—perhaps even aware that we’ve been around for quite awhile....
I’d Like to Talk About the Bigger Stuff
Today, in leafing through a bundle of letters to Kyrgyzstan, postmarked in Colorado, a sense of guilt begins to build. The feeling that I abandoned this...
Terror Bird
Of all the characters you do, “guy with a sexy
foreign accent who is also a pervert” will always
be one of my favorites. ...
Complex Relationships
He travels extensively and says that for him, photography is a way of organizing and making meaning of diverse memories and experiences......
When You Told Me It Wasn’t a Honeymoon
So we stayed on the trail and followed it down through the brush and over a rushing stream with soaked stones the color of chicken skin. Above us, the...
The Best Way to Drink Tea
The most ostensible feature of Fauteux’s work in this book is its “edginess,” an obsessive compulsive turning-things-over reflected in the restlessness of...
Proofreader
I had turned to James, one of my proofreaders, to guide me in matters of love, to keep me from making mistakes. This now, in itself, seemed to be a mistake. On...