Issue 11: Spring 2025

From the Editor

consider if a poem existed

by olga mikolaivna

The Sundering

by Monona Wali

Exercises

by Yannis Ritsos, Spring Ulmer

Exercises II

by Yannis Ritsos, Spring Ulmer

Essays/Nonfiction

“Both Apply”: A Reader’s Notes on Paul Celan’s Letters

by Alina Stefanescu

Exercises III

by Yannis Ritsos, Spring Ulmer

Monotypes: Ekphrastic Poems

by David Raskin

“Bay Area Rapid Transit,” “Prayer,” “The Power of Introverts,” and “The Bear”

by Jesse Nathan

The Cavalier

by Jonathan Larson, Nathalie Quintane

“Stone Fruit” and “Memory”

by Robin Myers

“October on the 101,” “A Clean, Dry Container,” and “Everything is Terrifying; Tell Me It’s Spring”

by Sara Fetherolf

Essays/Nonfiction

Old Man Jobs and Thornton Wilder

by Michael Waterman

“The Trans Man Jane Eyre Reflects on Helen Burns at Lowood Institute,” and “On My Way to See You”

by Levi Cain

Between Two Worlds: A Conversation with Chiara Barzini

by David L. Ulin

Essays/Nonfiction

Descending the Staircase

by Chiara Barzini

Air/Light is published quarterly in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California.

The Chowdhury Prize in Literature is an annual international mid-career prize for writers.