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Issue 43, Poetry

Alone in the Museum

July 22, 2026 /
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art courtesy of The MET Museum
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by Keen Eve

Two women
fold their clothes
on a Grecian bowl
—one whispers
to the other,

Beneath us
are silica beads
arranged to trap
the moisture
from her breath.

For you, I reach
to write a message
in the fogged glass—
the guard tells me,
Please step back.
Keen Eve is a trans lesbian poet &
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Issue 43, Translation

5 Poems

July 22, 2026 /
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art by Greta Rosso
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by Greta Rosso
Translated from the Italian by Michael Chang

Poem 1

Oaks, birches, the man in the van.

Tonight I dreamt of eggs

though the sleep app says I dreamt very little

two eggs were missing from the carton

I wondered who’d taken them, cooked them, eaten them,

because I certainly hadn’t

The air is so warm it’s carrying me away into a summer

composed of certainty &
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LIT 43, Summer 2026

July 17, 2026 /

In this issue, we invite you along to witness our paintings, our polaroids, our memories, our songs about the good times, the dark times. We reach into the past to understand our present to shape our futures. In this issue, we expunge our fears, our troubles, our terrors with the warm, faded grain of film. Let your nostalgia guide you, lead you to catharsis, and let you grow.

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Eternal Questions

July 17, 2026 /

art by Soha Kabiri

by Hamed Soleiman Tabar
Translated from the Persian by Ali Asadollahi




Observation
مشاهده‌گری


نشستن؛ روبروی آینه و
خیره‌گی به دوردست

آیا باز می‌آید؟
آنکه به تماشای خویشتن رفته…


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Sleepwalking 
خوابگردی


پله‌پله می‌آید بالا این‌همه را بی‌پاگرد
می‌آید تا بگشاید دروازه‌ی پلک، خوابگرد
می‌بیند در خواب، خواب که تمام نمی‌شوند پله‌ها
و هم پرسش نخستین را
نشسته بر پله‌ی پسین


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Echo
بازتاب

چگونه است سایه‌؟

بازتاب یک سوال؟
یا خود سوال دیگری که
آفتاب می‌کند از ما


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Hallway dark
دالان تاریک

و زندگى:
که دالان سوالى بى انتهاست

· خاصه؛ عشّاق!

Hybrid, Issue 43

The mÖma Show & The Villa Occupation: A Celebration of the Temporary Museum of Memory Archeology

July 17, 2026 /

by bart plantenga with Mark Boswell

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“The house turned out to be a magnet for objects, where things were valued for their peculiarity, instead of being consumed.”1

^{₁ Adilkno, Cracking the Movement: Squatting Beyond the Media, Autonomedia, 1994. Adilkno (Dutch: BILWET), Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, was established in Amsterdam in 1983. https://thing.desk.nl/bilwet/Cracking/squatting.html.}

[Osnabrück,

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Interviews, Issue 43

The Two Worlds of Playwright L.B. Browne

July 17, 2026 /
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photo by Olga Prudka
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by John Kazanjian

On the eve of her trip to Mackinac Island, Michigan, I ask playwright and novelist L.B. Browne if her new Off-Broadway play, Safe House, reflects anything of her own experience growing up. She obfuscates: “As an artist, it’s difficult not to incorporate your formative years in your art, consciously or subconsciously.” For a moment, I consider pressing her, but instead, I wish her a safe trip. To some degree, I know the answer. Since 2019, we’ve been close friends. We met as students in The New School’s MFA in Creative Writing Program,
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