Editor’s Note
What do rivers remember and where do they invite us? I invite you to take your time with the rivers, questions, and longings in this issue.
On Rivers • Curated by Patrycja Humienik
Community Anthologies: 2023
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On Rivers • Curated by Patrycja Humienik
“A river is a contested site. I return again and again to rivers, real and imagined.”
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ReadFor the Gentleness of Our Leaving
I started asking rivers to feed me as a child—literally, with flesh from fish, then figuratively, with flashes of comfort. -
ReadMath Problem with a River
A farmer with a wolf, a goat and a cabbage must cross a river by boat. -
ReadEvery Morning I Take a Bus Through the West Bank (II)
As I look out upon a landscape now heavily shaped by American colonialism, I know another world is possible. -
ReadMemory, a Lacuna
My mother and grandmother were born in ‘the land of the lake,’ or La Comarca de la Laguna, a cradle of fertile land between the Sierra Madre mountain ranges in the northern Mexican desert -
Readnotes on anticipation
In this moment that has come to happen / in other moments, the notes / of birds nestled in my asking.
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Community Anthologies: 2023ReadOn Tending • Curated by Bianca Ng
“What are you shedding these days in order to become more yourself?” -
Community Anthologies: 2023ReadOn Permanence • Curated by Briana Gwin
“Maybe you are like me, and you’ve been thinking a lot about permanence.”