Notes on <i>Critical Constellations</i>

Notes on Critical Constellations

A letter from our guest editor, Yanyi.

Belief: a communal power that circulates through love

Belief: a communal power that circulates through love

Madison Mae Parker traces her literary history through Friendship Zines, encountering younger versions of herself along the way.

Light Years

Light Years

Aria Pahari and Dure Ahmed design a “syllabus that goes on forever,” tracking changes through a friendship that might be the real forever-syllabus.

Reading Into It: Poets on Each Other’s Influences

Reading Into It: Poets on Each Other’s Influences

Shared texts are offered like casual bids of intimacy in Kiril Bolotnikov and Scout Faller’s Top Ten lists of favorite poems.

An “Imaginary Chisel”: Collaborative Collage in Victoria Chang’s Dear Memory

An “Imaginary Chisel”: Collaborative Collage in Victoria Chang’s Dear Memory

H.L. Kim treats Victoria Chang’s Dear Memory collages as sites of collaboration with absent family members to piece together a fragmented history.

Two Poets Looking: “At Twenty-Eight”

Two Poets Looking: “At Twenty-Eight”

Gauri Awasthi and Jack Vanchiere, both twenty-eight, cut new angles in mutual mentor Amy Fleury’s poem “At Twenty-Eight.”

Wayward Taxonomies

Wayward Taxonomies

Artists Simone Zapata, Sarah Yanni, and Christine Imperial speak as a braid of three voices in a cross-disciplinary interrogation of maps and mapmaking.

The Flap

The Flap

Andie Sheridan’s poem-essay names the sorrow of dislocation and attempts to forge their own chisel through it with the words of other adoptee writers.

Stevie Smith, Maria Stepanova, and the Poetics of Miscommunication

Stevie Smith, Maria Stepanova, and the Poetics of Miscommunication

Neta Kleine’s essay asks what possibilities lie in translation when faithfulness to the original text is not the point?

With Lunar Calendars: On Pat Parker & Merle Woo

With Lunar Calendars: On Pat Parker & Merle Woo

Eunsong Kim’s research into activist Pat Parker’s archives turns up a flyer for the performance group Unbound Feet and a list of questions for Merle Woo and Nellie Wong.

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