Published in 16.4
In The Woman Who Could Not Forget, Ying-Ying Chang paints an intimate portrait of her daughter, Iris Chang: an intense, passionate young historian who changed the world’s view of World War II with her exposure of … more »
By Renee Sarojini Saklikar
Published in 16.4
growing season / a glossary
Dimension: March, 2007
Sound: Trans-Canada Highway
Story: Abbotsford
Context: farming
Vehicle: baggy pants, tunic, scarves
Sound: churches / gurdwaras
Materials: tractor, transmitter, siren
Story: Amarjit Kaur Bal, … more »
By Loretta Seto
Published in 16.4
From a dark night of the soul to a play ready to face the world, Valerie Sing Turner has proved that she is here to stay.
VALERIE SING TURNER is a woman of endless … more »
By Nancy Kang
Published in 16.4
The Origin of Cherries
The Bing cherry was named after Ah Bing, Chinese foreman in 1870s Oregon.
In the photograph he looks small, taut
like a dead magpie that lies on a cool … more »
By Nancy Kang
Published in 16.4
Widow
he is here for a moment, then gone
she stays a little while longer
eating onions with red rims, purple smiles
dreaming of one who slipped on an edge near the river… more »
By Nancy Kang
Published in 16.4
Coast: July
I press a finger at the fading pulse
of your indifference a stalk entwined with veined tendrils,
the swell of globed thoughts pungent as crushed garlic
little bellies, each of … more »
By Nancy Kang
Published in 16.4
Yellow Woman
for Leslie Marmon Silko
she speaks of the sparseness of the bees
who visit in the frenzy of season’s shift
seeking veins of water before the summit
of high noon heat. … more »
By Nancy Kang
Published in 16.4
Min, Mine
ghosts are
sentient, austere, ancestral
like ceramic dust, but heavy as bone-meal
seaweed tangle, the cool blue overpass,
the bent grass, the long looks backwards
but it is not anger, a … more »
We’re currently taking in submissions for our Winter issue with the theme “Faith and Philosophy”!
Whatever you think (or don’t think) about philosophy, Ricepaper is interested in learning more from its contributors. If you have a story, a poem, a … more »