Rebecca Ruth Gould Archives

On Leaving Iran (Rebecca Ruth Gould)

Verity La September 27, 2019 Discoursing Diaspora, New, Poetry

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 …

Three Poems by Frank Webb (Oliver Miller)June 28, 2019
I grew up on Sydney’s leafy lower North Shore. Taking out a dinghy from old Joel’s Boatshed at the end of our street, making the long row over to Wreck ... Read More
Changing the Map: On Rape Culture in Australia (Julianne Negri)September 24, 2019
Edited by Kathryn Hummel ‘We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change.’ — Ursula Le Guin Predawn. I like ... Read More
Selective Mutism <br>(Alison Bennett)July 27, 2018
she is fight or flight volcanic dynamite a raging accident that was never meant to happen so she begins to swallow her voice into pretend smiles her body now a ... Read More