Michael Leong

Discriminatory Anti-discrimination, by Michael Leong

“…any violation of Title VI—including the use of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (‘DEI’) programs to advantage one’s race over another—is…

only an instant: the time that it takes for their faces to fall apart () oh, the distance that…

My teacher said nothing is never not entangled in emptiness. Even the perpetual “bullet-like” trajectories of the sacred. Or…

The literary magazine Barzakh has a newly designed website and has just opened a new reading period. Submit fiction, poetry, non-fiction,…

Fence Books will be launching a new imprint Fence Digital tonight in Hudson, NY. This Sunday at 8 p.m. at…

I’m the faculty adviser for the online magazine Barzakh, which recently announced a new call for submissions for their upcoming…

I’ve been thinking of master film-maker Abbas Kiarostami. Here are some anagrams–with adjusted punctuation–of the titles of some of my…

What do we make of Vanessa Place’s curious presence in the special dossier “On Race and Innovation” that Dawn Lundy…

The editorial staff at Barzakh is happy to announce that submissions for Issue 8 are now open! As a multigenre,…

Last month, the New York Times ran an interesting piece by Alexandra Alter with the heavily alliterative and assonantal title…