Issue 55

Cloud Tailor

Editor's Note What is there to say of a story in which the central character…

The Photographer Looks Twice

Editor's Note In any artist’s life and artistic practice, there exists a special address. It’s…

Badi Mamma Walks Into the Frame

Editor's Note There are things we lose in the fire and there are things we…

Athena and the Small-Town Writer

Editor's Note It is hard to write about oneself. It is hard because memory is--…

‘Moments of Rest’ and other poems

Editor's Note In an article for the Cleaver Magazine titled ‘The Poet’s ‘I’: Distance through…

‘Wrapping Love’ and other poems

Editor's Note I always find it fascinating how poets choose the most everyday of objects…

‘Windward’ and other poems

Editor's Note Devon Neal’s suite of poems is characterized by gentle insights and sparkling adjectives…

‘All that is left is storytelling’ and other poems

Editor's Note In the theater of memory, images come forward and retreat in mythic order.…

‘Amritsar: Salvation’ and other poems

Editor's Note On first reading Manjima Bhattacharjya’s poems, I was struck by how they engage…

‘You are Witness, Not Martyr’ and other poems

Editor's Note   Writing is often a process of retrieval. We can return to places…