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Poems Bread and salt by Aicha Bint Yusif

Bread and salt by Aicha Bint Yusif

Ali Asadollahi, an award-winning Iranian poet, is the author of six Persian poetry books. Asadollahi is a permanent member and the former secretary of the Iranian Writers’ Association (founded in 1968). His poems and translations are published/forthcoming in Bellingham Review,…

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Art The Shiftless Countryside of Emancipation, 2024

Kara Walker

Kara Walker was born in Stockton, CA, in 1969, and raised in Atlanta from the age of 13. She received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art (1991) and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (1994).…

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Essays The Afghanistan Story by Sara Taber

The Afghanistan Story by Sara Taber

The story of Afghanistan, my young women informants have taught me, is yet more complicated even than a battle between communism, democracy, and Islamic forces or a battle over women’s position in society. Stories upon stories, I have learned, compose…

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We Are the Light We Are the Light: No. 1

We Are the Light: No. 1

We are the Light is a forum and gathering place offering free and open expression to women from around the world whose voices are seldom heard and whose futures are threatened. The education and health of women, attention paid to…

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Essays Bare Life by Shifa Haq

Bare Life by Shifa Haq

[…] In my dream, a vampirish presence is approaching fast to feed on me. It dawns on me that this is an unconscious representation of those for whom my heart bleeds. On waking up, shame replaces terror. Besides one’s identification…

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Essays Do You See? by Richard B. Grose

Do You See? by Richard B. Grose

Seeing and being seen are also obviously essential to individuals. They form a part of the psychopathologies addressed in psychoanalytic treatments, ranging from a need to be invisible to a need always to be seen. Pointing out the similarities between…

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Essays Degrees of Separation by Katie Burner

Degrees of Separation by Katie Burner

Reflecting on the moment, this wasn’t simply the first time I was more honest with a client; it was the first time I was more honest with myself. These thoughts had been brewing for some time, but I had never…

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Essays The Accidental Activist by Nancy Prendergast

The Accidental Activist by Nancy Prendergast

I grew up in the blue state of Rhode Island, where my father was active in local Democratic politics. I voted mostly for Democrats but registered as an Independent. While I never missed voting in a presidential election, I didn’t…

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Poems Six Short Poems on the Iran-Iraq War by Ali Asadollahi

Six Short Poems on the Iran-Iraq War by Ali Asadollahi

Ali Asadollahi, an award-winning Iranian poet, is the author of six Persian poetry books. Asadollahi is a permanent member and the former secretary of the Iranian Writers’ Association (founded in 1968). His poems and translations are published/forthcoming in Bellingham Review,…

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Editorials

These Words by Hattie Myers

Think what it would be like,” Italo Calvino wrote, “to have a work conceived from outside the self, a work that would let us escape the limited perspective of the individual ego, not only to enter into selves like our…

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