2022 | issue 5.0
Table of Contents
Process.ion 21
Urte Laukaityte
CATEGORIES
Creative Prose
Ichor
I don’t dance, but I did with him that night. The air hung heavy and hot around our heads, and little gnats glanced off our...
An Ending
“Are we allowed to be here?” I asked as I looked down into the hole that would be a grave in a few short minutes. He...
And the Smoke Rises
A pigeon sits atop a tree and gasps for breath back. Novelist Richard Price once gave the advice that “The bigger the...
Via Perpetua
Upon the Aurès Mountains a d VIII Id Jan, VII a r c1 (8 January 256 CE) NumidiaModified after Karten von Römischen...
Uproots
Photograph by Clarissa Fragoso Pinheiro The few tenants left on Piazza di Santa Maria awoke to find a fallen palm tree...
My Heart Between the Seas
I was the last child of four — and the hardest to deliver. I feel a little bad about this fact, but I was getting even for...
Things Just Happened
“A silence like eternityPrevailed, there was no sound to hear;These marvels all were for the eyeAnd there was nothing for...
Perfecting the Art of Blinchiki
“Don’t forget to wash your eggs!” my mama warned me through a WhatsApp video call. Despite the lagging pixels, I noticed...
ਜਿਗਰ
Lungs of the World 2, Artem MirolevichKi? Kithe? Saanu ki? What, where, and why does it matter to us? This particular line...
I Think I Can See
When I was young, I thought I could see well. I could see the bougainvillea planted out front of my childhood home. They...
Essays
Queering the Prisoner Escape Narrative: Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby”
“Industry Baby,” the third single off of Lil Nas X’s 2021 album, Montero, alongside its music video, constitutes a queering...
Lovecraft’s Nameless Things: Understanding Racial Ecologies in “Dagon”
H. P. Lovecraft is everywhere these days, a multimedia star in death that he never became in life. His influence,...
Colonization and the Construction of Patriarchal Ideals in Chicano* Hip-Hop
Beautiful women. Expensive cars. And groups of men standing around enjoying both. These are some of the key images...
Anything, Everything and Nothing
Circle and Star Motif via Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumEvery day I was excited to enter my first-grade...
Contemporary Queer Brazilian Literature You Can Read in English Translation
As a Brazilian translator living in the United States, I often find myself speaking of contemporary writers from my home...
Coming Full Circle: Appreciating Black Educators
Key Blue, Joseph Schillinger My fractured Jamaican and Caribbean identity has long been both an open wound and an...
Poetry
Encounters with the Memory of My Abuelo
Abuelo, going back to the pueblo, the home, the place where I grew up, and not finding you there, makes me feel lost. I...
Circular River Theory
Process.ion 35, Urte LaukaiyteBach and Us When I see a pond, I think of how you saw a koi fish orange...
Three Johnny Carson Poems
Plaque Depicting a Quail Chick, Unknown, Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)The parrot in this one can talk The...
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Process.ion 25, Urte LaukaityteAnd what of that black bat who wove through the yard in the early evening? Did it see...
Hold Me
Blue Gray Violet Wheel, Yvonne Estrada On the train a man tells me I look just like his daughter. He crosses many feet to...
Girlhood Stays
Rogers Fund 1970. Stonepaste; blue and black painted under transparent glaze (Sultanabad ware).Yesterday afternoon I made...
Visual Arts
LARB Fellows Portfolio
Are there any literary works that have inspired you in your practice- whether they’re books about art, books you would want...
Awash in Blue: The Blue Portfolio
While searching for a visual throughline to direct the art we, the Art Directors, stumbled upon blue. Although typically...
Masthead
EDITORIAL
| Alberto Quintero Clarissa Fragoso Pinheiro Shruti Sarkar Livia Azevedo Lima Kaia Sherry Ananya Sikand nat eastman sarah hoenicke flores Sumney Sigler Vinicius Jatobá |
Urte Laukaityte Elina Katrin Fatima Taskomur PJ Zettle Fiona Bewley Mylena Rodriguez Brittney Jimenez-Bayardo Eraldo Souza dos Santos Laura Schmitt Shirl Yang |
COPYEDITING
| Daniel Galley Gisselle Larios Hala Kaddoura Jadie Stillwell Jessica Lee |
Keaton Larson |
ART DIRECTION
Aditya Deshmukh
Donna Ghassemi
Erin Gilbert
Irina Teveleva
PRODUCTION
| Daniel Galley Irina Teveleva Jadie Stillwell Jessica Lee Keaton Larson Marlan Harris Alberto Quinero Clarissa Fragoso Pinheiro Kaia Sherry |
Livia Azevedo Lima Shruti Sarkar Ananya Sikand nat eastman sarah hoenicke flores Sumney Sigler Urte Laukaityte Vinicius Jatobá |
SOCIAL MEDIA
| Aditya Deshmukh Donna Ghassemi Erin Gilbert Gisselle Larios Hala Kaddoura Rudrani Gangopadhyay Vevina-Anne Flores Elina Katrin |
Fatima Taskomur Fiona Bewley Mylena Rodriguez PJ Zettle Brittney Jimenez-Bayardo Eraldo Souza dos Santos Laura Schmitt Shirl Yang |
ADVISORS
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