Alison Mandaville

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Alison Mandaville is a poet and associate professor of English at Fresno State University.

Auntie Nabat’s Bread
By Nariman Hasanzade
Winter 2019
Nariman Hasanzade
Photo: Wine Dharma/UNsplash In his bildungsroman, the “People’s Poet of Azerbaijan” describes a time when “all the world smelled of bread.” I’d taken off my clothes and climbed into bed.…
“To a Phoenix”: A Poem from Azerbaijan
By Rabiqe Nazim qizi
March 2016
Rabiqe Nazim qizi
A simurgh (a monstrous mythical bird with the power of reasoning and speech). From Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing, by al-Qazwīnī (d. 1283/682). Courtesy o…
Two Poems
By Feyziyye
March 2016
Feyziyye
Photo: Clarissa BellTo the Children of WarMornings, they run from the dark along the length of the seashore.Like an iron sword beaten by a blacksmith, the sun reddensas their feet strike the ground.So…