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Girl on the lamp

20 March 201721 March 2017TW

by Merlinda Bobis

An oil lamp with the face of a girl with wild hair inside the bowl of the lamp.

From Romana Córdoba, Siglo l — Museo Arqueológico de Córdoba


Who are you
that looks back at us,
lights us
saves us
from the dark,
knows us
each night
more than we’ll ever
know ourselves?

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Brief dream of the woman poet on the 59th TrumpDay

20 March 201721 March 2017TW

by Melinda Smith

Breathe
breathe out
(you have permission)

what are you wearing?

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Syria’s children

20 March 201718 June 2018TW

by Lizz Murphy

The quiet of an infant
who understands nothing
of war or flight or why
he sleeps under just a jacket
Refugees crowding one side
police crowding the other
His eyes his chest
tomorrow’s tear gas burn

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Issues archive

Issue 8 – March 2021

Issue 8 – virtual mic

Issue 7 – September 2020

Issue 7 – virtual mic

Issue 6 – March 2020

Issue 6 – virtual mic

Issue 5 – September 2019

Issue 4 – March 2019

Issue 3 – September 2018

Issue 2 – March 2018

Issue 1 – September 2017

Mini-magazine: Translating the Love Songs of Meerabai

Translations, improvisations and interpretations of two songs of Meerabai, a sixteenth-century Rajasthani mystic poet, singer and dancer.

Image of Meerabai with musical instrument.

Translating the Love Songs of Meerabai

People

Founding Editors
Moya Pacey
Sandra Renew

Guest Editors
Anita Patel, Issue 2
Lisa Brockwell, Issue 3
K A Nelson, Issue 4
Tricia Dearborn, Issue 5
Anne Casey, Issue 7

Production Manager
Tikka Wilson

ISSN 2208-4126
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