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by Michael Schapira
The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. In
20 4 420: Irie Edition
The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. In
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by Vika Mujumdar
Literature, as Lefebvre reads it, cannot be reduced to language, or genre, or nation—fluidity is more productive, more generous, more expansive.
Speak/Stop – Noémi Lefebvre
Literature, as Lefebvre reads it, cannot be reduced to language, or genre, or nation—fluidity is more productive, more generous, more expansive.
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by Phương Anh
How does a person locate the city that seems to not want them? This is a question that came to mind as I read Ayhan Geçgin’s Lungo Cammino (tr. Giulia Ansaldo, 2023) and revisited Thuận’s Chinatown (tr. Nguyễn An Lý, 2022). In both texts, the cities in which the characters are situated remain aloof, distant, […]
To Locate or Not to Locate: Navigating Capital Cities in Chinatown and Lungo Cammino as the Undesired
How does a person locate the city that seems to not want them? This is a question that came to mind as I read Ayhan Geçgin’s Lungo Cammino (tr. Giulia Ansaldo, 2023) and revisited Thuận’s Chinatown (tr. Nguyễn An Lý, 2022). In both texts, the cities in which the characters are situated remain aloof, distant, […]
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by Rey Rodríguez
TODOS LOS CAMINOS bridges two important language communities and invites them to find each other through poetry.
Todos Los Caminos Llevan a Casa – Luis J. Rodríguez
TODOS LOS CAMINOS bridges two important language communities and invites them to find each other through poetry.
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by Vika Mujumdar
Literature, as Lefebvre reads it, cannot be reduced to language, or genre, or nation—fluidity is more productive, more generous, more expansive.
Speak/Stop – Noémi Lefebvre
Literature, as Lefebvre reads it, cannot be reduced to language, or genre, or nation—fluidity is more productive, more generous, more expansive.
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by Rey Rodríguez
TODOS LOS CAMINOS bridges two important language communities and invites them to find each other through poetry.
Todos Los Caminos Llevan a Casa – Luis J. Rodríguez
TODOS LOS CAMINOS bridges two important language communities and invites them to find each other through poetry.
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by Kaelie Giffel
Personal relationships are as shaped by class as they are by anything else, though we sometimes willfully forget this.
A Perfect Day to Be Alone – Nanae Aoyama
Personal relationships are as shaped by class as they are by anything else, though we sometimes willfully forget this.
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by Olga Mikolaivna
By tampering with Greek and utilizing it as the matter of his poetry, Khaleed breaks down and interrupts this monocultural and monolinguistic assumption of who is supposed to be part of the Greek nation state.
The Light That Burns Us – Jazra Khaleed
By tampering with Greek and utilizing it as the matter of his poetry, Khaleed breaks down and interrupts this monocultural and monolinguistic assumption of who is supposed to be part of the Greek nation state.
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w/ Gina Tomaine
I’ve been into horror movies and things that are scary or creepy since I was a little kid. I was obsessed with monsters and found something comforting about them.
CD Eskilson
I’ve been into horror movies and things that are scary or creepy since I was a little kid. I was obsessed with monsters and found something comforting about them.
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w/ Rajiv Mohabir
I think the poem tells you what form it wants to be if you listen carefully. I love when a poem is funky and wants weird line breaks or caesuras.
Jessica Nirvana Ram
I think the poem tells you what form it wants to be if you listen carefully. I love when a poem is funky and wants weird line breaks or caesuras.
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w/ Mike Corrao
Men taught me that I was indestructible early on, and continue to so frequently to the point that I understand now that I am immortal. When will men learn that I am indestructible, and they are the ones destroying themselves?
Laura Paul
Men taught me that I was indestructible early on, and continue to so frequently to the point that I understand now that I am immortal. When will men learn that I am indestructible, and they are the ones destroying themselves?
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w/ Tiffany Troy
A city, and also a language, is not just a product of the literal body, but of the emotional and conceptual possibilities of consciousness itself.
Squinting at the Gold Teeth of the Sun: A Conversation with J. Mae Barizo on Tender Machines
A city, and also a language, is not just a product of the literal body, but of the emotional and conceptual possibilities of consciousness itself.
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by Phương Anh
How does a person locate the city that seems to not want them? This is a question that came to mind as I read Ayhan Geçgin’s Lungo Cammino (tr. Giulia Ansaldo, 2023) and revisited Thuận’s Chinatown (tr. Nguyễn An Lý, 2022). In both texts, the cities in which the characters are situated remain aloof, distant, […]
To Locate or Not to Locate: Navigating Capital Cities in Chinatown and Lungo Cammino as the Undesired
How does a person locate the city that seems to not want them? This is a question that came to mind as I read Ayhan Geçgin’s Lungo Cammino (tr. Giulia Ansaldo, 2023) and revisited Thuận’s Chinatown (tr. Nguyễn An Lý, 2022). In both texts, the cities in which the characters are situated remain aloof, distant, […]
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by Catherine Xinxin Yu
Hong Kong is often represented as a port city—a colonial emporium, a gateway to China, a non-space of transit, a stop in multigenerational migrations, a floating city amnesiac about its past and uncertain about its future.
Love at Last Sight: Writing Hong Kong in Taiwan
Hong Kong is often represented as a port city—a colonial emporium, a gateway to China, a non-space of transit, a stop in multigenerational migrations, a floating city amnesiac about its past and uncertain about its future.
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by Barbara Halla
To a certain extent, living in a “cool” city was the promised land that allowed people to swallow the bitter pill of the 1990s neoliberal shock doctrine.
Inorganic City: A Living Autopsy of Tirana
To a certain extent, living in a “cool” city was the promised land that allowed people to swallow the bitter pill of the 1990s neoliberal shock doctrine.
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by Semyon Khokhlov
All of Kluge’s books contribute to one large, ongoing project to build up a toolkit of resistant feelings that readers can use to plot their own ways out.
The Human Situation in the Work of Alexander Kluge
All of Kluge’s books contribute to one large, ongoing project to build up a toolkit of resistant feelings that readers can use to plot their own ways out.
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by Michael Schapira
The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. In
20 4 420: Irie Edition
The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. In
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by The Editors
This special issue of the FULL STOP QUARTERLY will aim to hold folklore as a prism through which to view connection, the self, and the future. . . . It will explore folklore in and as literature, as process, and as performance.
Call for Pitches
This special issue of the FULL STOP QUARTERLY will aim to hold folklore as a prism through which to view connection, the self, and the future. . . . It will explore folklore in and as literature, as process, and as performance.
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by The Editors
In times like ours, times of fracture, depravity and upheaval—times which are really not that different than any other time on earth, except for the speed and scale at which violence is exercised—what is the value of art?
Call for Pitches
In times like ours, times of fracture, depravity and upheaval—times which are really not that different than any other time on earth, except for the speed and scale at which violence is exercised—what is the value of art?
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by Michelle Chan Schmidt
Read the introduction to our latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities.”
Dis(-)appearing Cities or: How I Learned to Stop Walking and Love the Empire
Read the introduction to our latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities.”