Dear Diaspora Peter Lawson

Dear Diaspora Peter LawsonDear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Through a collage of lyric, documentary, and

The Spring issue starts our 20th year of publication with a wide range of works

Sometimes they seem alone in this world

Ariel Dorfman described him as “an Iraqi master poet who opens up all the despair and tenderness of our times”

Jessica Miller is fascinated by the somewhat perplexing tendency of humans to end their own lives

how people behave under duress

earnest and polite

and transhumanism

His stories work towards the discovery of what is “original” in the sense of primordial in these narratives

follows her 2016 collection

His obsession is Lulu

creating a haunting effect on the reader

The city is covered in ash