Winter-Spring 2020 Archives

Poem by Jahan Malek Khatun, Library of Congress

Ghazals of Jahan Malek Khatun

December 6, 2020/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / Jahan Malek Khatun, translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian

And other Iranian noblewomen like Padshah Khatun and Qotloghshah Khatun and others have ridden the steed of their talent in this field in whatever way they could. I imitated them and dared to compose poetry too[…]

Word From the Editor

December 22, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Amanda Lopez, Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020

Decay

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Claire Boyer

All of Us Are in Pieces

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Nhung An

Picasso This and That

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Rey Armenteros

What I Know to Be True

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mahdis Marzooghian

The Many Uses of Safety Pins

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Anu Kandikuppa

Jedi Mind Tricks of an Anxious Girl

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Autumn Shah

Dog of War

December 4, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Maria Zoccola

From the Trees Full of Birdsong Comes Unripe Fruit

December 4, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Albert Abonado

Waorani Legend (With Appropriation)

December 4, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Lauren Brazeal

An Oddly Satisfying Existence/ Leading Light/ The Anser

December 4, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mahdi Ahmadian

The Support Verses, Earliest Sayings of the Buddha/ The Beatitudes

December 4, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Siddhārtha Gautama, translated by Christopher Carter Sanderson

The Things We Grow

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / Hannah Abigail Clarke

Torn Between Two Lives

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Julya Rabinowich, translated by Claire Storey

My Gardener

December 3, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Benny Sisson

Of a Fixed Nature

December 3, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Ronald Dzerigian

Two boys pull green oranges from the tree
that hangs over the churchyard fence. They

throw them into the street with such auto-
matic skill that they may be the same boys

sent to kill in any war that will never be theirs […]

ednos

December 3, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Stephanie Yue Duhem

Carol Es, Quarters, 2015, oil paint, paper, and fabric on birch panel, 24 in. x 24 in.

Rock and Refuge: Mixed Media

December 3, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Carol Es

Caché Owens, Spring Fete, 2019, Collage, Acrylic, Oil Pastel on Canvas, 11 in. x 17 in.

Caché Owens: Mixed Media

December 3, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Caché Owens

Hippotherapy

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / Joyce Becker Lee

Big Girls Don’t Cry

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / Susmita Bhattacharya

Marrow/ Boat People/ Balsero/ Ritual/ Exequias

December 3, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Kelly Martínez-Grandal, translated by Melanie Márquez Adams

Havana reverberates, resists,
bursting through the cobblestones.
Light years,
I sense a galaxy of infant stars.
I don’t use its name and it doesn’t use mine […]