Someone said my poems are 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘺
𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳. Out the window, in the field, seven
cows now gather. When I looked ten minutes
ago, only three cows ... Everyone
must know that to be clear means to have lost
something we have loved.

—Victoria Chang, from 'Feb.5.2022'

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

—Nicholson Baker, from an interview

(love this as one of the epigraphs to Sigrid Nunez's The Friend)

Halfway through Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse for the first time... and it might be the most profound, moving, and ecstatic reading experience of my life.

Issue No. 6 is here!! Y'all are gonna love this one. Thanks so much to all ten of our wonderful contributors, and thank you especially to Wojciech Wos for the beautiful cover art 💘

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Edward Chen & Tseng Jing-hua in Your Name Engraved Herein.

takeshi kaneshiro in chungking express (1994)

So excited to announce that we’re launching a new 1-year subscription to & Change! Every subscription will include:

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Adam Zagajewski, translated by Lillian Vallee

“I am astonished by the level of invention that poets demonstrate — and yet fiction writers get so much more credit for making stuff up!”

Our next featured poet is one and only Chen Chen!!! Currently typesetting our interview and feeling a plethora of emotions.

i love, love, love the smell of rice cooking

the fact that encampments are naming their libraries after Refaat Alareer makes me cry but I think would have made him really happy😭😭

Hello everyone, thank you for following this new account.

This account was created out of a need we have seen in the community of fundraiser organizers for Gaza. Organizers work around the clock to get traction on their fundraisers to help our people survive this genocide.

I don’t know how to describe the mass graves in Gaza, or the corpses of patients found buried with catheters and IV tubes still in place. I don’t have the words. This is not rage, it’s not heartbreak, it is something akin to both but far beyond them.

Refaat Alareer wrote a poem called “If I Die,” asking people to fly a kite in his name if he’s killed to give hope to orphaned children.

He wrote it for his daughter, Shaima.

Israel killed him. Months later Shaima had a baby.

Israel killed Shaima.

And her husband and baby.

the u.s. has never stopped committing/abetting genocide. on these lands and around the globe

u.s. universities must divest from israel, the police state, & the u.s. military. but then, this would require a complete dismantling of the u.s. university, as these are/have become the academy’s foundation

any professor or administrator offering less than full support and solidarity towards student protesters on your campus—do you really think you will stay safe from the police? clearly from all these videos they will not hesitate to brutalize and arrest you, too