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
Depression Has Seven Floors and an Elevator
by Isabela Sancho
Translated by Dean Thomas Ellis
Isabela Sancho was born in 1989 in Campinas, Brazil. She studied visual arts and majored in architecture at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). She is the author and illustrator of the handbook Quem fala em seu nome ("Who speaks in your name"; (Editora Primata, 2019) and of the poetry collections As flores se recusam ("The flowers spurn themselves"; Editora Patuá, 2018, honorary mention for the Prêmio Literário Glória de Sant'Anna, Portugal) and A depressão tem sete andares e um elevador ("Depression has seven floors and an elevator"; Editora Penalux, 2019).

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. 
The groan of the motor,



the elevator slackens

with a wheezing

wrath.



The jolt

then the brake



coarse and abrupt.


.


In two seconds

a drop of oil

drip drip/sound sound
its echo





forlorn, fatal.



.




There are no panels

intercom,

stop button,

the button




that opens those doors
In case of emergency,

there isn’t one.


.



The elevator doesn’t stop.

Presume it perceives

the exact right moment




to jump.
The calculus that knows not
to let you




slice yourself in two.
Isabela Sancho was born in 1989 in Campinas, Brazil. She studied visual arts and majored in architecture at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). She is the author and illustrator of the handbook Quem fala em seu nome ("Who speaks in your name"; (Editora Primata, 2019) and of the poetry collections As flores se recusam ("The flowers spurn themselves"; Editora Patuá, 2018, honorary mention for the Prêmio Literário Glória de Sant'Anna, Portugal) and A depressão tem sete andares e um elevador ("Depression has seven floors and an elevator"; Editora Penalux, 2019).

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.