My Earliest Person In mijn mand and memory

and memory

we were fortunate to be joined at Perdu by Sutherland

Ada Smailbegović is a poet and theorist born in Sarajevo and currently living in Brooklyn

John Perrault

Ramos Rubén’s is a voice from a colonized part of the world especially vulnerable to environmental disasters

My Earliest Person In mijn mand and memoryJennifer Soong None of this matters. Its only supposed to save you from yourself. None of this matters, when I try to take it out of me into the world, which to find I can praise I go out to Lyrical drifts warped by syntax into blizzarding softness; odes to beauty, meaning, and inexperience splintered by history and grammar. An aqueous surface marbled with the lightest possible touch, lost footings arrested by changes near griplessness. Composed