Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 The day the water arrived, Luis was working in the cellar, the dogs were tied up to the trees, and Cecilia and I were digging holes the size of thumbs. We were poking the earth with screwdrivers and dropping in handfuls of seeds. To pass the time, Cecilia was …
Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 Honorable Mention for the Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry The ambulance came late. Mother said she knew already as sleeping dogs kept waking up to bark after them. That was a myth, but didn’t they say myths are hard kernels of truths melting with time? Grandfather still visited marabouts. …
Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 Flash. Flash. Bang. Grenade. The Disco- Balls still spin in Detroit. Ukraine is bombed, honorable mentions for bombings, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya Color Coated along the coasts. Big spending in the ports. The Prophet Joseph dreamed of bigger things in his bright coat knitted by God. What if …
Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 I’m told it is Taha Ben Jelloun’s house as I take off my boots, place them in the designated shoe area in the foyer. The French expatriate hosts are renting his house: a sculptor and an urban planner with their three children, two girls and one boy. But before …
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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 Winner of the Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry This poem responds to Iman Mersal’s “Traces of Enayat” (Al Kotob Khan, 2019), which uncovers the life and death of the Egyptian writer Enayat Al-Zayyat (1936-1963), whose only novel was published posthumously. The italicized text on the left has been translated—at …
