topic: trauma

Editor's Introduction “The doctor says the problems are the chemicals in my brain,” begins Josh Hutson’s poem “Red Spices.” Indeed, the...

In With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century , Eduardo Galeano’s prose poem, “The Nobodies,” calls for recognition: “The...

In his debut collection of poems Topaz , Brian Komei Dempster writes: “I feel war’s incision.” These poems cut open the past line by line,...

Drowning: 16 December, 1971 ‘Yahya Khan drowned the two-nation theory.’ Tikka Khan (1) , we only went looking into the water to stare at...

The number of Syrian refugees passed the 1 million mark in March and continues to climb as the civil war grinds on. As of this writing, the...

The ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people has rarely been given the moral weight more readily accorded to European historical...