May 02, 2023
Seeking Memory: An Interview with Oindrila Mukherjee
Oindrila Mukherjee grew up in India and now lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University. She has been the recipient of fellowships from Inprint Houston, Emory University and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in Salon, Kenyon Review Online, The Colorado ...
April 19, 2023
Three Sisters
When I was a child, Kanta Apa was always turning down marriage proposals. She was my mother’s eldest sister Boro Khala’s daughter, the eldest among my cousins. Boro Khala had three daughters– Kanta, Shanta, and Renu. They lived in a large house in Dhanmondi. Scarlet bougainvillea draped the metal gate and plastered white walls at ...
February 02, 2023
Nicky Beer in Conversation with Day'Shawna Courtney
Nicky Beer is a bi/queer writer, and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022). Her first two books, The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon, 2010) and The Octopus Game (Carnegie Mellon, 2015), were both winners of the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. She has received honors from the National Endowment for the ...
December 01, 2022
She Was Never the Birds
Heavy bodies fall into me as the train brakes and then jerks forward. At each stop, it lets out a prolonged shriek like that of a fussy child. There is a map nailed to the wall that resembles the inside of the human body: green, red, and blue veins overlapping each other. Beside it, an advertisement that reads, rediscover yourself, your destination awaits. The letters are printed over an ...
