Amnion Brandon Shimoda Reina María Rodríguez used the

Reina María Rodríguez used the magazine’s photographs of faraway places to spark an investigation of the mental landscapes comprising her own

and translation-theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrosses time and extends hospitality to exiled poets and peoples in her quest to recreate a lost literary and spiritual home

and transcendence flow together into the vexed semi-coherence we have come to call culture

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker

Amnion Brandon Shimoda Reina María Rodríguez used theStephanie Sy Quia Amnion is a contemporary lyric epic, journeying from the Philippines to Libya, through France, Spain, and the UK. This debut collection of poems questions keenly and urgently the roots of migration and colonialism, charting what it means to grow up in a family divided by geography, history and language. Managing the consequences of empire, familial discord, personal mythologies and contemporary issues of class and race, these