Thunder Song – Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
Each word resonates, reverberating ancestry.
“BEFORE THE FUCKERS CATCH US”: TRANSMAD POETICS AND EPISTEMIC FLIGHT
It is in these cracks, in the margins and the alleyways and “cripistemic” backwoods, and in moments stolen from and apposite to the Institution, that transMad projects event themselves…
I sometimes think artists are born with a built-in extra soul, one that has a natural tendency for the blues. Is it an inborn anointing? Or is it over-confidence, the sheer audacity to flatter myself?
From the Solitude of the Waters of the River, From Nowhere
This novel is largely an attempt to draw a line—crooked, errant—from Maria’s nowhere to elsewhere
“To Translate is to Remember How to Resist”
Translation, like motherhood, entails a level of invisible labor that often escapes the general public
Tender, Tenderized and Intertwined
Read the introduction to our latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, “Tender Tongues.”
The Appearance of Urban Memory in Ukrainian Poetics
This essay was originally published in the Full Stop Quarterly “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities,” edited by Michelle Chan Schmidt. Subscribe at our Patreon page to get access to this and future issues, also available for purchase here. Ukrainian poetics function as a mode of defense against disappearance and a mode of remembrance in the city. I will address the […]
What makes a place utopic? Or rather what is it that makes a place received in people’s imaginations as utopic?
In Search of Impossible Places?: Lublin by Manya Wilkinson
Lublin is not only a road trip on foot in central Europe, nor a coming-of-age novel . . . It is the translation into fiction of the economic migrant’s existential condition, caught and lost in the endless borderland that extends between their deprived place of origin and the metropole’s illusion of socio-economic elevation and fulfillment.
Navigating Capital Cities in Chinatown and Lungo Cammino as the Undesired