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Still Life

Photo by Veejay Villafranca, text by Lian Sing

Diversity Statement

By Gustav Parker Hibbett

Girls Like You

By Annell López

[To the noise of rain, pushing sleep…]

Dimitri Psurtsev, translated by Philip Metres

Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, novelist, memoirist, essayist, visual artist, and human rights activist. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited around the world. Born in South Africa, he immigrated to Paris in the late ’60s and became deeply involved in the anti-apartheid movement. Breytenbach’s works include All One Horse, Mouroir, Notes from the Middle World, Season In Paradise, Dog Heart, The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, and Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish. His many honors include the Alan Paton Award for Return To Paradise in 1994 and the prestigious Hertzog Prize for Poetry for Papierblom in 1999 and Die Windvanger (Windcatcher) in 2008.
Fiction Conflict

From Catastrophes

By Breyten Breytenbach December 1, 2011
They string people upside down from the verandas and split them with bayonets. Halved people hang in rows and the blood drips pif-pif-paf in the snow.
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