Frankenstein Goes to the Bathroom
“Before bed, I was a woman in her late forties,/ but part by part, I was replaced with the used and tired.” Hallowe’en poetry contest runner-up, by Jessica Barksdale.
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Lisa’s Ghost Twin Sister Tries to Go Home
“Lisa’s ghost twin sister owns her environment. Now, grass covers half of her face…Sewer pipe femur bones. Electric wiring inside her throat.” Hallowe’en poetry contest runner-up, by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens.
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Homecoming
“She hears the crowing of birds outside,/ her neighbour cussing at the colony chowkidar,/ the petroleum cough of the retired colonel’s jeep…” Poem of the Week (October 29), by Rakhshan Rizwan.
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Badlands
“The sun dips into an unknowable// tomorrow just beneath my fingertips.” Weekend Poem, by Taylor Supplee.
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Jaggery Roof
“It’s midnight in Delhi./ I am tongue kissing a bowl of Bengali pudding/…listening to the heartbeats of a million books.” Poem of the Week (October 22), by TJ Dema.
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Pushcart Prize 2014 Nominations
The Missing Slate’s poetry and fiction shortlists for the 2014 Pushcart Prizes.
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The Faber Book of
“The publishers would like to/ Gratefully acknowledge themselves.” Weekend poem, by Rowland Bagnall.
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Poet of the Month: Athena Kashyap
“When the media is not objective, catering more to the sensationalist and vested interests, then art can and has to step in…” Athena Kashyap, our Poet of the Month, talks to Maida Salkanović.
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Journey / सफर
From our tenth issue, Rahul Soni translates Prahbat’s Hindi original (running side-by-side) of plumbing the depths of sadness.
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Walking
“It could be a remote suburb of Byzantium or the edge/ of a more familiar place.” Weekend Poem, by Leslie L. Nielsen.
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