In This Issue

Fallen Fruit
Fallen Fruit plants trees and maps communities, creating a radical beauty outside art-historical taxonomies

A Lock of Hair, a Bite of Fruit: Sexual Economics in Goblin Market
In Christina Rossetti's poem Goblin Market (1862), a virgin enters the sexual marketplace and buys her own body.

Still Life with Apples, Paul Cézanne, 1898
A (light, quiet, fruitful) ekphrastic poem by Lena Moses-Schmitt, prompted by Cézanne's "Still Life with Apples" (1898) (cylinder, cone, sphere).

Banana Consciousness
The banana as a marker of former oppression and government destabilization: American advertising, retail imagination, and colonial empire.

No Fruit for her Labor: A Multimedia Cookbook of Gestures
Ancestral foodways in the hand movements of Old Fez cooks

Austerity’s Fruit Ripens
The 2018 school workers' strikes are the first sign of spring for the labor movement, a beginning harvest in a long winter of American austerity.
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