Dedicated to my brothers in Bomana Immigration Prison There is no one left in this world who has not heard your name. Everyone knows your story. We humans are all …
OUT OF THE VOID: Voices from Detention (Yasaman Bagheri and Farhad Bandesh )
(Curated by Saba Vasefi) When the moon is the only light in a home you haven’t known, you feel separated from your swan-song language.The moment of standing on a precipice …
Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize 2019
Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize (supported by Southern Cross University) is for poems of up to fifty lines that respond to the theme ‘seeking asylum’. The prize celebrates the …
memoir (Kaya Lattimore)
tita ruth tells stories as if she belongs to them as if they are alive eating tinola at the kitchen table with us in the house apu built bare hands …
On Leaving Iran (Rebecca Ruth Gould)
The plane ascends. Women disrobe, crossing into Turkey’s airspace. Their hair cascades like waterfalls. I lift my skirt to let my legs breathe. So much sin is compressed between my …
On Diaspora: A Short Essay (Ayokunle Falomo)
I didn’t know to dig deep into my own history until I heard Ariana, Loyce and Mwende talk about how deep the colonizers dug their hands into our soils. And …
Hiding within the Diaspora with a Sharky Pen Name
(CB Mako)
Edited by Ivy Alvarez When I first wrote fanfiction in 2013, then transitioned to nonfiction in 2016, I knew I would continue writing using a pen name. My grandfather had …
Stains on a Map
(Linda Godfrey)
too late to hill up asparagus to blanch it, to drink tea in a Russian port in winter, torpedo the Atlantic. Reflux stains the map with the telling of your …
Fortune-telling (Eileen Chong)
All night I dreamed of my home, of the roads that are so long and straight they die in the middle— …
Within the Filipino Diasporic Cloud (Eileen R. Tabios)
From ‘PILIPINZ CLOUDYGENOUS’ (2018-2019): a Poetry and Visual Art Installation by Eileen R. Tabios You leave the land of your ancestors and your birth. In the 20th and 21st century, …