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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Featured · Uncategorized

    Mother Tongue (Poetry)

    Author: Manash Bhattacharjee

    As if it is the same thing As milk from her breasts. As if it is something which flows secretly Between us like a memory Growing deeper as it vanishes.[...]

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Featured

    À la naissance du sens (Poetry)

    Author: Trihn Lo

    Si l’on s’en tient à l’étymologie, le mot expression – dérivé du latin tardif expressio « action de faire sortir en pressant », du verbe exprimere (de ex et premere)[...]

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    No is Yes (poetry)

    Author: Manash Bhattacharjee

    Let us treat Yes as a No…and No as a Yes ~ Nikos Karouzos, ‘Texts/Non-fiction/Prose’ Greece, Your no is also a yes To other things, You spurned usurers For Athens’[...]

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Creative · Featured

    Homes of Loss (spoken-word poetry by Maheen Hyder)

    Author: Maheen Hyder

      You are a body that needed a home / now you are ruins and home is wound Why I left when I did and could not say goodbye: The[...]

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    Accidents Waiting to Happen (fiction)

    Author: Lina Sergie Attar

    I want to I want to be someone else or I’ll explode floating upon the surface for the birds                      [...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    “Woman Walking Heavy/Brown Worlds in her Face”: Global(ized) Identities and Universal Patriotism in the poetry of Suheir Hammad

    Author: Soraya Abuelhiga

    What if we declared ourselves perpetual refugees in solidarity with all refugees needing safe human harbor from violence and domination and injustice and inequality? …We are all refugees horribly displaced[...]

    Creative

    Lettre d’un Citoyen Engagé à L’Empereur du Grand Empire (année 2560 après Jésus-Christ)

    Author: Umar Timol

    Maître, J’ai longuement réfléchi avant de vous écrire. Je sais que vous avez de nombreuses préoccupations et non des moindres. Vous êtes à la tête du plus vaste Empire de[...]

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    Poetry, by Matt Reeck

    Author: Matt Reeck

    Double Analogy 1 Initial Disquietude. How easily people claim their actions are directed by the will of God. Initial Question. Why do people so abuse this phrase? Second Question. What[...]

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    Poetry, by Pradine Saint-Fort

    Author: Pradine Saint-Fort

    Untitled Dawn, the sooty film on that cherub’s face Two years, some months, a quantum of days – I guessed—engrossed in his joyful waddle Through the gutter, I follow this[...]

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