Memory

We launched our Spring Issue on Memory this past week while conflict raged in the Middle East. As I selected the pieces for this issue and looked at the traumatic effects of history, The Erasure Trilogy by photographer Fazal Sheikh came to mind. Join us in looking at the hard truth surrounding loss and resilience.

Laura Pegram
New York, NY
May 22, 2021

CONTENT

Fiction

Perfect Blue by Vincent Chavez

Anak by Guia Marie Del Prado

American Haint by Lyndsey Ellis

Boosting at Friendly’s by Asha French

Second Place is the First Loser by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu


Nonfiction

I’ll Breathe for You by Kirsti Jewel

Poetry

and ayo means come on by Khairani Barokka

prayer directed at x by Khairani Barokka

Trespass by Faisal Mohyuddin

Our Sestina by Alicia Mosley

In a Language Not Mine, Speak by Sanam Sheriff

Pogrom: February 26th, 2020, Delhi by Sanam Sheriff

Anatomy of Jellyfish by Leonora Simonovis

I Misread a Sign by Leonora Simonovis

Interview

An Interview with Sonora Jha

Archive

Farradiyya by Reem Kassis

This issue was made possible with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).