topic: trauma
June 22, 2018
Valérie Gruhn was an emergency room nurse with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) near Mosul, Iraq, from March to June...
Poetry
June 23, 2014
Editor's Introduction “The doctor says the problems are the chemicals in my brain,” begins Josh Hutson’s poem “Red Spices.” Indeed, the...
Reviews
May 2, 2014
In With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century , Eduardo Galeano’s prose poem, “The Nobodies,” calls for recognition: “The...
Reviews
February 4, 2014
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,...
Poetry
September 16, 2013
Drowning: 16 December, 1971 ‘Yahya Khan drowned the two-nation theory.’ Tikka Khan (1) , we only went looking into the water to stare at...
Conversations
May 2, 2013
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...
Reviews
October 11, 2012
The ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people has rarely been given the moral weight more readily accorded to European historical...
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