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Fiction
By: | April 22, 2013

Yet even in the midst of progress, history remained. Every town and city retained traces of its past: a statue; a plaque on a wall; a hitching post for… More

Sling Bag

Poetry
By: | April 19, 2013

The severed leg serves as his pillow when he sleeps. / The severed leg is placed on the dining table when he eats. / (Is he married? Let’s say… More

from Kissing the Sword

Memoir
By: | April 18, 2013

“Don’t you all constantly claim that you’re opposed to America? Then why has news of the shuttle exploding upset you so much?” She looked at me wide-eyed and said,… More

2013 hotINK at the Lark

April 18, 2013

For the second year in a row, the PEN Translation Committee has collaborated with the hotINK Festival of International Plays, which just opened yesterday. More

I Loved Earth Years Ago

PoetryApril 17, 2013

I no longer call his death in Tennessee a murder I call it an execution, executed for being queer. It happened over a dozen years ago and few believed… More

A Sailor

Fiction
By: | April 16, 2013

She tells her husband this story. He asks her what she wants him to say. She tells him to say that he is angry that she fucked a Turkish… More

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