Issue One Contents

A Retrospective
poems by Alaíde Foppa Moscow Made, American Born.
art by Mark Kelner After Catullus
a poem by Dmitry Kuzmin New Fiction
by Brian Sousa Three Poems from Lithuania
by Giedrė Kazlauskaitė Global South
essays by Mukoma wa Ngugi
and Ngugi wa Thiong'o Counting
by Aylin Barbieri My Life in Prison
by Jiang Qisheng new poetry from NYU
by Jameson Fitzpatrick
and Amanda McConnon Frogpondia
moscow made, american born
by Mark Kelner
Mark Kelner is a visual artist and curator based in Washington, DC. A graduate of George Mason University, where he studied with the novelist Vasily Aksyonov, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Times, and other outlets. In 2010, he was invited to join the Board of Directors of the Hermitage Museum Foundation where he works on international contemporary art projects. His debut series, "Moscow Made, American Born" explores Russian-American duality by means of contrasting and distorting the visual symbols, ciphers, and social systems that define both cultures and their respective art histories.

Hero, 2011

Four Centuries of American Sloganism, 2011

Psalms, 2012

Small White Letters, 2013

Stalinbucks, 2012

Lone Star, 2011

Stalin in Jersey, video installation, 2012

Mark Kelner is a visual artist and curator based in Washington, DC. A graduate of George Mason University, where he studied with the novelist Vasily Aksyonov, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Times, and other outlets. In 2010, he was invited to join the Board of Directors of the Hermitage Museum Foundation where he works on international contemporary art projects. His debut series, "Moscow Made, American Born" explores Russian-American duality by means of contrasting and distorting the visual symbols, ciphers, and social systems that define both cultures and their respective art histories.