Issue Six Contents

Introduction
by Katherine Vaz
Within His Grasp
by Hélia Correia
from Our Joy Has Come
by Alexandra Lucas Coelho
four poems from POESIS
by Maria Teresa Horta
four poems from Jóquei
by Matilde Campilho
three poems
by Rosa Alice Branco
three poems
by Maria da Conceição Evaristo de Brito
two poems
by Simone de Andrade Neves
Depression Has Seven Floors and an Elevator
by Isabela Sancho
About a Book
by Laura Liuzzi
“there is …”
by Alice Sant’anna
copacabana
by Laura Assis
three poems
by Margarida Vale de Gato
Honeymoon
by Raquel Nobre Guerra
How to Write the Revolution
by Susana Moreira Marques
Diatribe of a Mute Eve
by Irene Marques
Frogpondia
About a Book
by Laura Liuzzi
Translated by Dean Thomas Ellis
Laura Liuzzi was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1985. Her first book of poetry, Calcanhar ("Heel," 7Letras), was published in 2010. She published Desalinho ("Unkempt," Cosac Naify), in 2014, and Lançou Coisas, a chapbook (7Letras), came out in 2016 at the International Literary Festival of Paraty (FLIP) in 2016.

Dean Thomas Ellis is a writer and translator living in New Orleans. His work has appeared in Bloodroot, Cosmonauts Avenue, Guernica, The New Orleans Review, The Puritan, Maple Leaf Rag, The Iron Lattice, Working Stiff (PBS.org), St. Petersburg Review, and the KGB Bar Lit Magazine. His translation (with Jaime Braz) of Jacinto Lucas Pires' novel The True Actor was published by Dzanc Books in November 2013.  He hosts the radio programs Tudo Bem and The Dean's List on WWOZ-FM 90.7 (wwoz.org) in New Orleans.
Reading by night

in this room

in half voice

part sound

part breath

lending life

to the book

before a moron

without a murmur

let it employ

my voice

it startles me

with every line

of the English language

until it snarls:

ripples, angulates

takes the curve

and vanishes.
Laura Liuzzi was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1985. Her first book of poetry, Calcanhar ("Heel," 7Letras), was published in 2010. She published Desalinho ("Unkempt," Cosac Naify), in 2014, and Lançou Coisas, a chapbook (7Letras), came out in 2016 at the International Literary Festival of Paraty (FLIP) in 2016.

Dean Thomas Ellis is a writer and translator living in New Orleans. His work has appeared in Bloodroot, Cosmonauts Avenue, Guernica, The New Orleans Review, The Puritan, Maple Leaf Rag, The Iron Lattice, Working Stiff (PBS.org), St. Petersburg Review, and the KGB Bar Lit Magazine. His translation (with Jaime Braz) of Jacinto Lucas Pires' novel The True Actor was published by Dzanc Books in November 2013.  He hosts the radio programs Tudo Bem and The Dean's List on WWOZ-FM 90.7 (wwoz.org) in New Orleans.