Footage is released to the public: the captain
abandoning the ferry in his underwear. Barefoot, he jumps.
Butterfly Man (Red), Arthur Boyd, 1970 by Paige Cohen I first heard EJ Koh read around one year ago at The Strand Bookstore in New York City. A year ago, we were both still MFA students living on opposite ends of Manhattan, myself a fiction candidate at The New School and EJ a poetry candidate…
Read MoreThe sound of a poem—it starts with the footsteps
of an ant over the log we sit on.
by Angela E. J. Koh —Popular myth has it that every time a woman sins by pleasuring herself, God in retribution kills a kitten. the young woman bared under an umbrella off the pier on Balboa eats her wild strawberry tart and pastrami on rye a siamese vomits its mother’s breast milk again the young…
Read MoreThe Handsomest Fingers in the World The last time I saw them, they Burdened me the entire train ride home The way neighbors bring pie over And their charity saddens me It’s the kindness! But the slimsy things gripped the rail Fattened into mitts Each finger a sumo wrestler Or a ridiculous naked root At…
Read Moreby Angela Eun Ji Koh I browsed CIA.gov for jobs On the online application I marked spots for Targeting Officer Intelligence Collection Analyst Counterterrorism Methodologist and Librarian The text said Be prepared to undergo a thorough investigation examining your life’s history, soundness of judgment, freedom from conflicting allegiances, protection of sensitive information, potential to be…
Read MoreThere are eight different common types of coffee and eight different types of poems.
Read MoreThe collaboration between heartland arena rock bard Bruce Springsteen and punk poet goddess Patti Smith which led to “Because the Night”…
Read MoreAbout a hundred years after that fateful day when the Augustinian monk Martin Luther apocryphally affixed his remonstrance to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral, and thus supposedly initiated the Reformation…
Read MoreAmartya Sen is reasonable in saying that Narendra Modi, re-elected as Prime Minister of India last week, has simply won the vote share, but not the battle of ideas.
Read MoreAt one point, Flights’ narrator finds herself gazing at a sarira, a fleck-like relic that sometimes remains after the cremation of the corpse of a Buddhist spiritual master, and wonders…
Read MoreThe incestuous entanglements of the Ontario Hydro One Board of Directors reflects the absurdity of the corporatized regime under which the earth continues to be exploited under the motivations of ‘economic prosperity’.
Read MoreToday I am visiting a hospital. When I enter the wards, I return to another world of voices. At the nurse’s station: Tagalog, Burmese, or Indonesian-accented Malay.
Read MoreWhen the smartphone brings messages, alerts, and notifications that invite instant responses—and induces anxiety if those messages fail to arrive—everyone’s sense of time changes.
Read MoreThe designer Michael Graves, who passed away at the age of 80 on March 12th, was widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of postmodernism in architecture.
Read MoreKing Louis Napoléon by Lotte Jensen To what extent can literature be used as a source for gaining historical knowledge?[1] This question has challenged historians and literary historians ever since the development of ‘history’ as a scholarly discipline. The answer tends to be moderately positive: literature may reveal specific information that can increase our historical…
Read MoreFrom Trainspotting, Miramax, 1996 by Julian Hanich In this essay [1] I try to categorize the range of artistic options that filmmakers currently have at hand to evoke bodily disgust. [2] Or, to reframe this approach in a slightly different manner: If we examine the variety of disgusting scenes at the movies, how can we…
Read MoreBank of Chosen, Seoul by Michael Schiltz We are living through ominous times. In the wake of the 2008 subprime crisis, the world economy has been battered by a series of profound shocks that have not been experienced since the 1930s. A series of shocks, indeed, because, as was the case in the Great Depression,…
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