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Borders, Boundaries and Belonging

Spring 2020 Special Double Issue


From Our Editors: Welcome to Multiplicity Magazine


Borders: Separating and Joining

The Two Worlds of Bill De La Rosa
By Mel Allen

Finding Hope & Humanity at the Border
By Jennifer De Leon

Reading ‘Us’
By Mia Gallagher

On Being Saved
By Áine Greaney

Your First Deployment: A Primer for Disaster-Relief Newbies
By Yi Shun Lai

Boundaries: Moments in Life

Terminal Love
By Jodie Baker

Two Minutes
By Shahnaz Habib

Can I Just Walk Backward?
By Dinty W. Moore

The Hope Cure: Negotiations with the Peri-fog
By Nuala O’Connor

Second-Hand Past
By Abigail Thomas

Belonging: Connecting and Disconnecting

How Many Have Me
By Wren Bellavance-Grace

Ode to the Ludlow Street Café
By Sari Botton

I Had an Aunt for Three Years
By Susan Ito

The Silence We Keep
By Karol Jackowski

Upstairs Love
By Lisa Romeo

Belonging: Inclusion and Exclusion

No More Fairy Tales
By Leanna James Blackwell

Owning Kobe
By Sophfronia Scott

Władek
by Suzanne Strempek Shea

Why We Play
By Kate Whouley

Poetry of Borders, Boundaries & Belonging

Five Poems in Spanish & English by María Luisa Arroyo

oro/gold
otro mito de la creacion/another creation myth
arrancar/arrancar: to yank
la diosa de las artes/the goddess of the arts
la diosa de las encarceladas/the goddess of the incarcerated

Four Poems by Charles Coe

Night Birds
Mulberries
Capistrano
Love in the Time of Corona

Three Poems by Deborah Kaufman

Vienna
A Father’s Work
Gloria

Three Poems by Jane Yolen

Finishing a Poem
Walking Through Time
Escaping Bonn


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