July 2025 – Page 2

Five Poems, by Melissa Sauma

Translated by Ariel Francisco Old Portrait There was a time when I was dark. My shoes always too big…

Happy birthday, Frantz Fanon! Here are some quotes from the philosopher, revolutionary, and writer. “Mastery of language affords…

a photograph of tree limbs scrawny limbs float below the surface, reflections in an oily mass of decomposition defining autumn…

Happy birthday, Herbert Marcuse! Here are some quotes from the philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist: “The truth of…

1 This is the forest entangled the murmuring sun a gap but full flat on arroyos draws a ridge of…

As recently as May, Bernadette had dressed up in white with all of us other girls on Canal Crest…

By Steve Danziger If a Las Vegan imagines their city as a dystopian war zone, is this dread, wishful…

Happy birthday, Jacques Derrida! Here are some quotes from the philosopher: “I always dream of a pen that would…

Happy birthday, Walter Benjamin! Here are some quotes from the author’s texts: “The art of storytelling is reaching…

Illustrations 1 Droplets falling languidly from one green platform to another like it are illustrative. 2 In a twinkling…