Poems Against Borders
“A moment of seeing and speaking to each other through and against the fences…”
The Missing Slate’s February 2017 online poetry issue.
Arts & Culture
Spotlight Artist: Faraz Aamer Khan
“The presence of an audience is nice, the vindication of recognition and even the money you get for hard work is nice too, but it can’t beat the satisfaction of creating something. The final piece on display for all to view has an existence like no other.”
Shameen Arshad interviews Faraz Aamer Khan.
Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines
“Its fragmentation gives … the impression of a Japanese fan: a wealth of perspectives, intricate etchings in every panel…”
Pratyusha Prakash on Natalie Wee’s ‘Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines’.
Spotlight Artist: Daniela Stubbs
“‘Home’ is a really abstract concept. I like to move, so I consider wherever I am a ‘little home’ in some sense.” Noah Klein interviews Daniela Stubbs.
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Editors’ Picks of 2016
From Leonard Cohen to literary translations, a hip hop artist to a Hollywood musical, bildungsroman to the passing of a great art critic, The Missing Slate’s 2016 picks reflect a year of diversity and nostalgia.
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Forensic Foraging: William Crawford
“We think of ourselves not as artists but rather as straight shooters with a distinct, discerning eye for the world around us…”
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Writing Pakistan
“As with all good books, the questions it poses linger long after the final page…”
Jacob Silkstone reviews Mushtaq Bilal’s collection of interviews with Pakistan’s leading English-language fiction writers.
Spotlight Artist: Shallon Fadlien
“Being a woman, I think that feminism cannot be divorced from my art.”
John Robert Lee interviews Shallon Fadlien.
The urban naturalist
“These poems hold a devotional quality of their own…”
Leeya Mehta reviews ‘Final Cut’, Saleem Peeradina’s fifth collection of poems.
Unbearable Splendor
“Leaving traces of its own continual metamorphosis, the book is an echo chamber, a hall of mirrors.”
Katy Lewis Hood reviews ‘Unbearable Splendor’, by Sun Yung Shin.