Tag: food
Kaveh Bassiri’s Reflections on Elementary English and “Conversation Practice”
Contributor Kaveh Bassiri describes his process writing the poems in his chapbook Elementary English, two of which appeared in our fall issue.
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miCRo: “Lifeboat” by Janika Oza
All three sections of Janika Oza’s “Lifeboat” revolve around food—as sustenance, as survival, as a way to connect to a lost country.
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miCRo: “On Statistics” by Zining Mok
We’re given an alienating, bug-eating premise, placed in an effete literary space and positioned at odds with the whole stiff scene (uncomfortable shoes, Wordsworth’s snobbery, the “man, suited and tied”, etc.). Then, suddenly, we are steeped in a rich, compelling argument about Western exceptionalism…
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