Spring 2022
Table of Contents
To Our Readers
Culinary Diasporas
Foodways, Dissent, and the Politics of Place: From Latino Orlando to International Memphis
Purple Patch: My Home away from Home
Warung Indonesian Holds Promise for the South’s Indonesian Diaspora
SoPoCo Emerging Writer Fellowship Winners
Fiction
from Daughters of the New Year
A Straightforward Request
All Errors Are My Own
Busonma
Dennis, Walter, Ryan, Will, Buddy, Henry, Trevor (translated from the Spanish by the author with Daniel Mamarian)
Khí Công with the Wind
Stealthy Freedom
Recipes
Aush-e-Reshteh (Persian Herb, Bean, and Noodle Soup)
Sing to the Lord an Old Song
The Hindu Hillbilly Spice Company: Indolachian Flavors Blend
Vegan Jollof Rice
Interview
Unconditionally Asian Americans: A Conversation on Korean Diasporic Identity in the U.S. South
Poetry
Ablution & Isotopes
Aboard the Steamer SS City of Rio de Janeiro; Manuél Sánchez. In the Eye of San Ciriaco; Leaving, My Husband Crowned in Coquís; & Carla Medina de Sánchez. At Anchor
Futures: Hibiscus & Futures: Stone Mountain
Galveston, Shrinkage, Why Gunmen Are Often Binary Cis-Men
Here’s a Love Poem to the Turkish Coffee Lady; Beautiful Heart; & If I Want to Go There I Have to Watch What I Say
High Holy Days; The First Dybbuk; & I drew the tower from the tarot deck.
I Drive as My Family Sleeps; The Road from the Mountains; Lake Lanier; & Hummingbirds
My Birthright
My Family Tree Pines with Mispronunciation & my cotton too
Self-Portrait as the Virgin after Karaoke; Self-Portrait as the Virgin Cruising the Beach at Night; Epistle (Día de Muertos); & Gloria
The Counting & Muddy Waters
Translating My Great-Grandfather’s Poems at Home with Nora
Virga; Polis; & Variations on a Theme by Stanley Plumly
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