Table of Contents

Queer Lit in the 21st Century

• POETRY Two Poems by Samiya Bashir
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• POETRY “Genesis” by Achy Obejas
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• POETRY “Inside America” by Nicholas YB Wong
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• FICTION “Heartbreak Hotel” by Alonso Sánchez Baute
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• POETRY Forgetting the Bodies
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• POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Two Poems
  by Edward Pasewicz
• POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Let Us Suppose You Love Me
  by ko ko thett
• Editor’s Note
  by Daniel Simon
• INTRO
  Taking Their Place: Queer Lit in the Twenty-first Century
  by George Henson
• AUDIO WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Two Poems by Samiya Bashir
  by Samiya Bashir
• INTERVIEW WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Three Questions for Abdellah Taïa
  by Daniel Simon
• FICTION
  Turning Thirty
  by Abdellah Taïa
• CREATIVE NONFICTION WEB EXCLUSIVE
  The Origin of the Milky Way
  by John Weir
• POETRY
  Genesis
  by Achy Obejas

In Every Issue

• City Profile: “Music City’s” Literary Scene
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• World Music: “Summer Solstice, Berlin” by Sanna Pederson
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• New Books: That’s Absurd!
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• Editor’s Pick: The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart
  by Sara Wilson
• Outpost: Perroformance Bookshop in Havana, Cuba
  by Aurelio Francos Lauredo
• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  What to Read Now: Queer Lit Recommendations
  by Monica Carter

• “So Who Has Time to Read? Social Class and Crime Writing, Part 1” by J. Madison Davis
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• POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
  My Life with Jeff Stryker
  by Norge Espinosa Mendoza

INTERVIEWS

• “Ending Up with a Question Mark: An Interview with David Albahari”
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Poetry

• Three Poems by Wang Xiaoni
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• Two Poems by Danielle Legros Georges
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• Three Poems by Musan Cho Oh-hyun
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ESSAYS

• “Here the Sun’s for Real” The Language and Politics of Translating José Eugenio Sánchez by Anna Rosenwong
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• “At the Crossroads: In Search of the Nigerian Abiku” by Mary Helen Specht
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• What Use Is Poetry?
  by Meena Alexander

Fiction

• “The Ghost of Nikita Akulin” by Ross Ufberg
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