Featured poem: What is a Country but a Borderless Sentence by Maya Salameh
Featured topics: the fiction of borders, the refusal of direct interpretation, the parallels between (of course) Louisiana and Lebanon, the world functioning as a poem rather than prose, the grammar police, adult identical twins, getting left out because you can’t have a crush on your brother, orphan narratives, and the enneagram test.
Poem read with permission from the author.
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