Issue 5 publishes in June 2016 and features the following:
Original art by TINGS CHAK focusing on the history of Chinese migrant workers in Canada
EMMA RAMADAN'S translations of the work of Moroccan poet EMBAREK OUASSAT
Essay and original artwork by RENEE GLADMAN, "Number Fourteen of the Eleven Calamities"
New poetry from STEFANI BARBER, NINA PURO, and CHRIS CHENEY
ELISA WOUK ALMINO'S translations of Brazilian poet PAULO LEMINSKI
Photography from "the Bauhaus Series" by BARA JICHOVA
A new short story "This Harbour, My Harbour," by SARA BAUME
Scanner artwork by FRANCESCA CAPONE
Poet NICOLE SEALEY's erasure "CLUE"
ALI POWER's poem "How to Make An Enemy"
Theory / criticism by Greek writer ZAFIRIS NIKITAS, translated by HELEN DIMOS
A selection of photographer ANDRE EPSTEIN's portraits taken in East and Central Africa
Cover artist ANTHONY GERACE's collage series "There Must Be More To Life Than This"
SALLY ROONEY's new essay, "America Imagines Itself: Ideology and the Box Office Superhero"
Poets MARK FORD and OLI HAZZARD in conversation
A selection of Italian artist ROSSANA TAORMINA's weavings on found photographs
New translations of the poems of OSIP MANDELSTAM and SHAMSHAD ABDULLAEV by ALEXANDER CIGALE
SARAH WANG's new essay, "Sex--Now That I Have Your Attention"
Two poems by SAMANTHA ZIGHELBOIM, "Dear Somnambulist," and "Topography of Alternates"
MILJENKO JERGOVIC's newspaper column "Fildzan and Soljica" Translated by JEN ZOBLE
Emoji paintings by JOCELYN SPAAR
KELLY RAMSEY's short story "Sequoia"
An essay on Rave music by DARRAGH McCAUSLAND
A selection of photographs from JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ's series "L.A. Walls"
New poetry from TED DODSON and LINA MARIA FERREIRA CABEZA-VANEGAS
AXEL WILHITE's miniature paintings on Menko cards
"Rise" a new poem from ELAINE FEENEY
*The Issue 5 launch party will be on June 17 in the upstairs mezzanine of 61 Local in Brooklyn. Admission is free and open to the public. Click here for the Facebook event page and RSVP.
