Tarik Dobbs
Foreword: What Is Experimental Work, Anyways? …. 5
George Abraham
Defenestration Fantasy
(collapsing sestina) ..………………………………………………. 8
hana roz
Daughter Calls to the Sea and Meets Its Ghosts ………. 10
JUNE 12 ………………………………………………………………….. 12
Lone Star Lucky ……………………………………………………… 13
Mohammed El-Kurd
Anti-Biography …………………………………………………….. 15
Park Benches with Teeth ……………………………………….. 18
Hajjar Baban
QUORA DIGEST SEARCH: WHAT DO AFGHANS
THINK OF KURDS? ………………………………………………… 20
QUORA DIGEST SEARCH: WHAT DO KURDS
THINK OF AFGHANS? …………………………………………….. 21
“A” is for Allah, “J” Is for Jihad ………………………………. 22
Farah Kader
Ayn Hawd ……………………………………………………………… 23
Magdeline Maher
WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS? …………………………………….. 27
David Groulx
Aphasia: Sun driven from our faces ………………………. 30
Trish Salah
flood jokes ……………………………………………………………. 34
Café Cléopâtre ………………………………………………………. 35
Tracy Fuad
from Eject ……………………………………………………………. 38
Mays Albaik
القلب بلا العلة / Letters of Ailment ……………………………. 41
Khashayar Mohammadi
The Six Realms of Ibn ‘Arabi: (Realm I–III)………….. 45
Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman
mixtape: on what war looks like to a child born
free, in a war zone, with generational trauma…….. 46
Gerboise Bleu ……………………………………………………… 47
Nadia Shihab
Echolocation ……………………………………………………… 49
Michael Rakowitz
Visual Art – The invisible enemy should not exist
(Northwest Palace of Nimrud) …………………………… 56
Lamia Abukhadra
Palimpsests of Removal, of Violence, of
Possibility: on The invisible enemy should not
exist …………………………………………………………………. 67
Fargo Tbakhi
PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: SPIDERS ……………….. 71
Gazan Tunnels through USA v ABAJI et al. …………. 72
An American Writes a Poem, ……………………………… 74
Doris Bittar
Colonial Colonnade ………………………………………….. 76
Yasmine Rukia
[Mena]gerie ……………………………………………………. 78
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
Emissaries from the Arab World, Envision:
A Queer/Trans Arab Multiverse …………………….. 80
Issam Zineh
Abstract ………………………………………………………. 83
once upon a time, my father said ……………….. 84
Mohamed Tonsy
Cover Letter for The Artifact is Ours ………… 85
The Artifact is Ours …………………………………… 86
Glenn Shaheen
NAVIGATION IN A WORLD FILLED
MOSTLY WITH EMPTY FIELDS …………….. 88
THE MENTAL PROCESSING OF
COLORS USED ON WEATHER MAPS …….. 90
Solmaz Sharif
Interview —Reading an Experiment
into a Poem …………………………………………. 92
Darius Atefat-Peckman
Susie’s Letter: an Erasure …………………. 98
Omar Zahzah
a poem joins the resistance ………………… 100
how to talk to (white) people who are
seeing your people in the news more
and feel really really bad …………………….. 101
Sarah Sophia Yanni
CANON ……………………………………………….. 102