Funeral Stories
Postscript to a speech delivered at the ‘Twenty-Third International Majlis and Retrospective on Medicine,’ Hotel Kerkur, Colonial Cherfis, 298 D.E.
Issue 52: Winter 2021
Fiction
Coke for Life
Your father says, “I have a surprise for you” and asks you to come to the living room.
Poetry
Da Lum Da Lam
My maternal family, originally from Teochew x 2.5 generations live in Vietnam = not quite Vietnamese
Essays
A Casual Chat with a KGB Major
Gorgeous late morning in the awakened city, fresh new green, the angled rays of the sun glittering in spiders’ webs, birds twittering, the fragrance of buds, grass drenched in dew, the air cool, bees hovering around blossoming branches, Sunday, the tolling of a distant bell.
Emily in the Tropics
“Emily in the Tropics” is graphic essay written and drawn with ink on sepia paper.
Interviews
choa magazine, building something with intention
In August 2020, Mirae Lee and Harriet Kim launched choa magazine, an online publication devoted to recognizing, examining, and understanding the nuances and complexities of Korean female diasporic experiences, as well as their inaugural volume.
Echolocations
In late September 2020, Nova Scotia-based authors Anne Simpson and Annick MacAskill met up at the University of King’s College in Halifax to discuss their new books Experiments in Distant Influence: Notes and Poems and Murmurations, both of which had come out earlier that year with Gaspereau Press.
Literary Mothers: An Interview with Carolyne Van Der Meer and Shira Nayman
Sometimes when we write, concepts we always took for granted are reconsidered. In that vein, do you think we have literary mothers—in other words, mothers we choose for ourselves vs. our real mothers?
Reviews
THE MEND: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming: The Cure For White Ladies
On the cover of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, a kwe’s back bleeds beadwork onto icy sheets.
