Tsunami Woman
The Missing Slate’s Audrey Ryback talks to Sonia Pressman Fuentes.
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Poet of the Month: Shanta Acharya
“Poets today may bear no responsibility to write poems with a social/moral message. Yet this freedom comes with a price.” Shanta Acharya, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Maida Salkanović.
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Happy
“Deborah Rancoff was never beautiful, but her drowned body was.” Story of the Week (April 18), by Madeleine Lee.
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IRL: Rachael Allen’s 4chan Poems
“The curatorial authorship emphasised in post-internet poetry, the devaluation of originality, reflects the experience of an artist in a culture that forgets nothing: the panic attack of influence.” Charles Whalley on Rachael Allen’s 4chan poems.
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Night Life
“Each day is not like this: Her edges showed sharp/ as diamonds one Tuesday before Wednesday dark/ pulled her from rain and dropped her in a car.” Poem of the Week (April 15), by Mark J. Mitchell.
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‘As though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul’
“Then there were stars and he tried to breathe in the pulse of their light./ The flickering of stars is like the heartbeat before death.” Weekend poem, by Clarissa Aykroyd.
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The Suburbs
“This was the summer of the robberies, the summer when the Earlham boy blew off his hand with a firework…” Story of the Week (April 11), by Rowan Beaird.
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Author of the Month: Erika T. Wurth
“If you’re from the dominant culture, your culture, your language, the things that form your identity, are in many ways so dominant that they are invisible…” The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month, Erika T. Wurth, in conversation with Abbigail N. Rosewood.
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Stepping
“The morning was new/ and these were morning thoughts./ The villages reduced to the howling of dogs/ belonged to the night.” Poem of the Week (April 8), by Moniza Alvi.
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The American Prisoner
“He was one of the first American prisoners of war I saw… His legs were messed up badly from one of our hand-made mines. A piece of metal was still lodged in his head.” Story of the Week (April 4), by Khanh Ha.
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