The author of Small Porcelain Head on how poetry can help us mourn.
Still, I started for the parlor. I’d polished my shoes, put gel in my hair: habits my mother had always wanted me to form and I had always resisted. Walking down the street, I felt conspicuous, as though people were sniggering at my gleaming head and feet.
Race in America, June 15 2013
May 1, 2013
Guernica is now producing quarterly themed issues that follow our regular online format, but that are centered on explicit directions within the intersection of art and politics in which we’ve been working for the last eight years. Submissions welcome.
Work for Guernica
April 22, 2013
We're currently looking for interns for our editorial and publishing departments.
A World Without Guernica?
April 20, 2013
Guernica has big plans for the rest of 2013 and beyond, and your support will be crucial as we invest in the next writers and artists who will challenge, inspire, and provoke you.
Guernica/PEN Flash Series
April 16, 2013
A new partnership with PEN American Center kicks off with a story from Randa Jarrar.
Lisa Germano: Apathy and the Devil
May 22, 2013
The singer-songwriter talks with Dave Evans about her new label, the “protest album,” and her cats.
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy: Somebody Give Bill Gates and Drew Faust a Copy of Citizens Disunited
May 21, 2013
The new book by “class traitor” Robert Monks shows a system at its breaking point—and names the twenty-four Americans who can fix it.
Mimi Hanaoka: Misadventures with the Mukhabarat
May 20, 2013
How can you prove to the Syrian secret police that you’re not an Algerian spy?
