Our Pushcart Prize selections are landmarks & lighthouses; they are wryly tragic & agonisingly gentle; they live with one foot in the ancestral & one in the visionary.
Read MoreAs it leads you through a world where healing moves with the patience of river water, may Willows Wake & Walk Away offer you a place to rest, to reckon, & to rise once more.
Read MoreThere’s a certain shame in confessing we are missing something—or missing within something.
Read MoreThe knights keep watch as I try once again to name what can’t be named, to tell the story that keeps surviving me.
Read MoreGenre had to be invented, and it’s high time we start building artistic legacies beyond its walls.
Read MoreThe Sevdah issue shines best in its sideways revelations, exposing what we’ve always wanted in the shape of its absence.
Read MorePsyche’s desperate desire for Cupid evokes sevdah, the human condition humming like a sad organ across a mythopoetic soundscape.
Read MoreThe work of poetry is a perishing, hauntingly apprehended in the songs of sevdah.
Read MoreTo be young is fleeting. Love and life pass like the ungraspable wind, never to return again.
Read MoreEach of these pieces pulls us into sharp-eyed focus, reminds us why we’re here & who we’re becoming. Best of luck to our nominees. Here’s to possibility.
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