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Lindsay Turner is the author of the poetry collections The Upstate (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming) and Songs & Ballads (Prelude, 2018). She translates contemporary Francophone poetry and philosophy and is Assistant Professor of English […]
some thanks some memories preserve shared edges; us bearing our asymmetry, you dogearing seams against my thigh… an infinite double- bind persists: two things might not be equal but i […]
[Moved Somewhere] Moved somewhere. Stayed up to midnight. Flew elsewhere. Came back. Got […]
Don’t look at me I am new and born today Dreaming has changed me The night has Melted off all my influences I saw the big sky turn over twice […]
The King Must Die I do not trust the strength of our gods in the most fertile land I have seen people shredding each other apart our body bursts out […]
be my talismanic property be my new prize for wanting the narcissism of this hot world cut loose like a blimp I came to revirginize my willpower, a white light […]
There was a horse I met, his name was the thought of a tree. I saw him in the backdrop of darkness in my mind, and on a farm, and […]
*** Neha Maqsood is a Pakistani writer whose essays and op-eds on South Asian culture, race-relations, and global feminism have been published in Teen Vogue, Business Insider, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, The […]
a new being is reborn with skin as soft as the mouth of a spring the camouflaging of his broken pride begin but tonight he does not climax before you […]
The way the letter “r” rumbles from the cavern of his throat through the top of his teeth, gently, a passing freight train or a faraway thunderstorm. The alchemy of […]
‘From the window of a prison’ From the window of a prison in another province,a view of autumn clouds. My interviews did not go well. Some prisoners spokeobscure dialects, languages from a […]
Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our 2022 Spring Contest, which was judged by Garielle Lutz, Aaron Coleman, Colleen Kinder, and Natasha Rao. We want […]
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