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Stop! Look! Listen! Lena Palacio's Reading & Listening Recommendation
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After hearing me do a reading as a newly-minted "emerging writer" (whatever the hell that means), a famous poet approached me and said that I reminded them of June Jordan, Diane Seuss, and Wanda Coleman. Check! Check! Wanda, who?
Stop! Look! Listen! Alice White's Reading Recommendation
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On a recent four-hour train ride across France, I pulled Leila Chatti’s debut poetry collection, Deluge (Coppe
Stop! Look! Listen! Meryem Yildiz's Listening Recomendation
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If The Sisters of Mercy and Joy Division eloped to Turkey, She Past Away would be their lovechild. For those of us who came of age in Montreal’s dimly lit sanctuaries like Passeport and Saphir, this band is muscle memory, equal parts black eyeliner and existential dread, and it brings us back to nights under red lights, wrapped in fog, where the bassline thrummed like a pulse beneath the skin, and the dance floor was the only place we belonged. Those nights are long behind me now, but hearing She Past Away’s post-punk sounds in my father tongue feels like a homecoming.
Features
Creative Nonfiction
An Excerpt from "Vanishing Point" by Lynn Easton
Excerpt from Issue 303 (Spring 2025)
"Vanishing Point" by Lynn Easton
DISAPPEAR: to be forgotten, lost
Fiction
An Excerpt from "A Life in Moving Pictures" by Kirsti Mikoda
Excerpt from Issue 303 (Spring 2025)
"A Life in Moving Pictures" by Kirsti Mikoda
Poetry
"My Mother's Hair" by Nancy Holmes
Stop! Look! Listen!
Stop! Look! Listen! Lena Palacio's Reading & Listening Recommendation
After hearing me do a reading as a newly-minted
Interviews
An Interview with Mike Barnes
Editorial Assistant Kath Gerobin's Interview with Mike Barnes whose story "Animals" was published in Issue 302 (Winter 2025)