how to fill a memory box
“add measured doses of sex/ and cigarettes./ yes,/ measured….”
Weekend poem, by Shobhana Kumar.
A Dream of the Earth: Part Two
“I realize I’ve been … a kind of psychedelic Philistine. Perhaps it was my slightly romanticized, somewhat pantheistic, sense of all this…” Part two of Michael C. Blumenthal’s essay on the psychedelic experience in mid-age.
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in caravaggio’s ikon
“Thomas,/ Apostle to our secular, mocking, murderous/ new age…” Weekend poem for Easter Sunday, by John Robert Lee.
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On a December Noon
“I took out my pouch, and extracted the wooden pipe/ Swollen recently by the deceased’s lips…” Poem of the Week (March 31), by Arup K Chatterjee.
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Author of the Month: Adda Djørup
“In Denmark, as in all other places, it is almost impossible to make a living as a writer.” Adda Djørup, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for January, talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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Author of the Month: Adda Djørup (Danish version)
Original text of Adda Djørup’s Author of the Month interview with Jacob Silkstone.
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Beauty of Lahore
“the sea of motor cars floods these city streets/ as though to stop for a second would halt its tides forever…” Poem of the Week (March 24), by Afshan Sajjad. Translated from Urdu by Jim Carruth.
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Poet of the Month: Yusra Amjad
“Female empowerment does not look the same in every society; it does not even look the same in two different women.” Yusra Amjad, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month for January, in conversation with Camille Ralphs.
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Det dør man af
Original Danish text of Maja Elverkilde’s ‘This Will Kill You’.
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The Silhouettes of Canton
“Due to the severe lack of options the girls currently working here have, they are more akin to sex slaves than sex workers.” S.E. Smith reports on human trafficking in Guangzhou.
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