Chairs and Windows, Sharpe-Walentas Studio, Brooklyn, NY (2024), Kristen Mills
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Translating Mga Larong Pambata
My grandfather is the lone doctor in this mountain town. The day is infinitely / chambered into fifteen-minute intervals in his clinic.
Nocturnal Games
After she left the living room, he glanced at the wall clock. He had two hours to fulfill the mission before the dawn call to prayer.
Jab, Cross, Infidel
Maybe people box for the same reasons they join Sufi orders. To transcend their mortal bodies’ smallness. Find discipline, community, purpose.
A Poet Asks an Interdisciplinary Visual Artist: Kristen Mills
My work can fall into the surreal, like a dream logic, but I feel that my work is most effective, or the strongest, when logic is applied to illogical situations.
Ghazal in which I am read aloud until I tremble
My language has no borders. It tunneled through the floor / of heaven, humming, wet with sinew and syllable. Barakah.
Slowest Hunter
Talia reminds me the Match-Hunt is a chance to start a more authentic life, one far away from the fake glitz of rehearsals, wardrobe fittings, meet-and-greets, and shows.
About Shenandoah
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Recent Blog posts from the Peak
Shenandoah Interviews Zimbabwean Artist Moffat Takadiwa
Moffat Takadiwa is a contemporary Zimbabwean artist who repurposes post-consumer waste such as bottle caps, toothbrushes, keyboard keys, and clothing buttons, and transforms them into large-scale sculptures, tapestries, and installations. Takadiwa’s work has been exhibited all over the world, and his most recent exhibit, Recoded Memories, is currently on view at the Art Museum and Galleries at Washington and Lee University from October 24, 2025 to May 31, 2026. Shenandoah’s Special Features Editor, Nadeen Kharputly, interviewed the artist to discuss how his work embodies language, narrative, colonial and postcolonial history, environmental justice, and memory.
Three Iranians
Shenandoah contributor Parisa Karami presents “Three Iranians,” a companion comic to “The Story Begins with Hana,” which was featured in Issue 75.1.
To Tami
In this letter, Shenandoah contributor darlene anita scott writes to Tami, a childhood friend and a character in her poem “Watershed.”