Flow
“I will guide you through the darkness, the shadows of your hands on my skin,/ and out into the light that you deserve…” Weekend Poem, by Unsia Hussain.
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Homecoming
“When his mother had questioned his failing grades, he had brushed her off. She had outlined a plan for him after his high school graduation. He had dreamt of being a writer.” Story of the Week (October 23), by Adrianna Sampedro.
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Arabic/Arabic
“We run our hands on the carved door of Arabic;/ We bless the embroidered walls of Arabic;/ We hold the gates of Arabic…” Poem of the Week (20 October), by Rakhshan Rizwan.
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Pay Colonus
“Slow in learning how to make bombs, front restaurants or forge dollars,/ I studied Liberation Theology/ in cloud monasteries, near the wells and goatherd-routes…” Weekend poem, by Arturo Desimone.
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Wonderpig
“The mad pace of buyers suggested a looting. They loaded up on chops, thighs, knuckles, kept piling it into their carts.” Story of the Week (October 16), by John Gorman.
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Taking Trinidad
“A few days later, the Gaddafi loyalists began to shell Misrata, and Harvey Dabbs was killed. It was a stupid death, like every death in war.” By Sándor Jászberényi, translated from Hungarian by M. Henderson Ellis.
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Prayer For Quick Dismemberment
“Smash open all the foretellings, retellings/ and untellings that this city can boast.// Smash open its red cement floors, rain-glittering/ cobblestones…” Weekend Poem, by Nandini Dhar.
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On the Sublime / Ãœber Das Erhabene
“the door opens here on the last/ rooms of the sun and the escape en face/ gives onto the roof…” By Raoul Schrott, translated from German by Iain Galbraith.
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Magnetism
“‘Death’ is the answer,/ though it isn’t right…” By Marcin Åšwietlicki, translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese
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Preparation for the Crows’ Feast
“The great scam has been successful. We just don’t know for whom…” By Gábor Schein, translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
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