WINTER 2016 SVPPLEMENT

Introduction

Citizens of the Cosmos: An Introduction to Literary Cosmopolitanism, Winter 2016 Supplement

The first person to ever call himself a “cosmopolitan” was a 4ᵗʰ century Athenian vagrant named Diogenes.
Fiction

Binti

Look at this girl Lana she looks just like you and maybe she’s six too but look.

The Wall and the Bridge

She let her big canvas purse drop in line with the row of shoes, mostly hers, lined tightly against the entrance wall, and went straight for the fridge.
Poetry

Two Poems

there are cracks / in my praxis

Two Poems

The flowing lines of lampblack: white. The heavens made of azurite: white.
Essays

Trajectories

Iam back, stomping Chicago slush off my shoes and tugging my suitcase a foot ahead of the man following me step-for-step.

Madhur Anand’s Catastrophic Worlds

As a professor of ecology and an internationally recognized researcher, Anand builds her poetics on the kinds of concurrences that create natural events.