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"Early in May, we held a virtual reading with Caroline Harper New who read her award-winning poem “My Love for Geography is an Act of Mourning,” alongside other poems of hers. Introduction by MR Poetry Editor Nathan McClain."

"FALL 2026 OFFERS READERS a veritable banquet of genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and writing on public affairs, not to mention a lecture, an art portfolio featuring film stills, performance, and installations, and an ekphrastic photo essay. A piece of invasive species eco-horror by Kevin D. Jordan, “The Forest as Witness,” approaches questions about the environment and humanity’s entwined relationship with it in a way that is both unsettling and tender. We are also pleased to share not one but two works of drama in this issue. One of those pieces, scenes from a devised choreopoem titled “Many Patterns, One Cloth,” was co-authored by Iya Awotunde Judyie Al-Bilali, Priscilla Page, and Tatiana Rodriguez and appears here in the wake of Iya’s passing this past January. This choreopoem draws on Yoruba myth to imagine how a reclaiming of the divine feminine might lead to global healing and rebirth. We hope that this publication will stand as a testament to Iya’s memory and to the beauty and brilliance of her life’s work. Recent work by the interdisciplinary artist and scholar Camille Turner continues themes in “Many Patterns, One Cloth,” traversing memory, storytelling, and future-making across the diaspora."

"Throughout, you’ll also find a strong thread of writing and thinking about contemporary social movements. M. E. O’Brien’s piece theorizes what she calls “insurgent utopianism,” a revolutionary method that emerges on the ground through the ever evolving, always shifting terrain of struggle. Miles Meth’s “Defend” is a work of fiction that registers the promises and perils of organizing actions right now, along with the tricky gender politics found in many movement spaces. Fan Gao offers a frontline report on anti-ICE activism in Minneapolis and the horrific murder of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE officers there, while Robert Pastore, a contributor to our Incarceration & Family special issue, draws on personal experience to reflect on the “inescapable light” of solitary confinement and how the withholding of darkness is wielded as a tool of surveillance and control in U.S. prisons. Meanwhile, Shams Mazen Rajab writes on the necessarily political function of photography in Gaza today, where “the ban on photography is not merely a security restriction but an attempt to erase truth, to bury testimony before itis born.” Rajab notes, “Even the small camera I carry from a distance becomes a weapon against forgetting, a tool that tells the world: Here was a home, here was a life, here are people who still dream despite the rubble.” Questions of light, surveillance, and the documentation of existence also find their way into a short photo essay without photos, by Supratik Baralay, centered on the experiences of two Pakistani laborers living and working on the island of Santorini in Greece. A short story by Morteza Barzegar and translated from Farsi by AJ Javaheri further explores themes of incarceration, repression, and political violence."

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