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HA&L 15th Anniversary MY COUNTRY IS THE WORLD   The Persistence of Vision • writing and artwork by Gordon Belray Image detail: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy or Hertz 12:30 THREE NATES: What a Friend we Have in Jesus • by Michelene Adams THE CLIMB • by Andy Stanleigh The Story of Aisha • by Aisha D. Journalism in Ankara • A glass of cola, a cigarette and “life” • by Arzu Yildiz   Secure • by Xiao Zhang Living Hyphen As Living Lineage: In Conversation with My Mother by Justine Abigail Yu • Illustration: Across Generations, artwork by Nicole Xu Metis Jigging • by Jesse Thistle • Photo: the Simon L II fishing vessel SHIKARI • by Arif Anwar • Image: based on a design from the Book of Kells whirring of a day replaying in the head.  17 dec 2021 & walking forward into remembering.  26 feb 2022 • by Margaret Christakos Les Estrangers • by Xu Xi • Photo detail: by David Clarke   World in a Word: NOTHING • International Women’s Day, 2021 by Sandra Campbell • IMAGE: UN Women/Yihui Yuan ZOOM ON, MUTE OFF: Pandemic Mothers Around the Globe Collected and Edited by Michaela Anchan RUNNER • by Kimberley Alcock Would Being a Poet Save Me? • by Carol Krause The Aliquando Press of William Rueter Littera Scripta Manet • by Chester Gryski HA&L magazine Membership. This Boat / cannot float / without you.   Editorial Introduction: My Country is The World by Kim Echlin, GUEST EDITOR THREE NATES: What a Friend we Have in Jesus by Michelene Adams RUNNER by Kimberley Alcock Poetry Code Switched by Lillian Allen ZOOM ON, MUTE OFF: Pandemic Mothers Around the Globe collected and edited by Michaela Anchan SHIKARI by Arif Anwar The Persistence of Vision by Gordon Belray World in a Word: NOTHING International Women’s Day, 2021 by Sandra Campbell whirring of a day replaying in the head.  17 dec 2021 & walking forward into remembering.  26 feb 2022 by Margaret Christakos The Story of Aisha by Aisha D. Poetry UNENDING WAR, On this Street Anytime, & Ghost by Cheran Rudhramoorthy THE CLIMB by Andy Stanleigh Metis Jigging by Jesse Thistle Poetry Hanging Around, Balance Sheet, Still Life, and Stealing Back the Dead by Ruthie Vital Gilad Translations from Hebrew to English by Yoni Hammer-Kossoy Les Estrangers by Xu Xi / David Clarke Journalism in Ankara, the Capital City A glass of cola, a cigarette and “life” by Arzu Yildiz Living Hyphen As Living Lineage: In Conversation with My Mother by Justine Abigail Yu Secure by Xiao Zhang ALSO IN THIS ISSUE The Aliquando Press of William Rueter Littera Scripta Manet by Chester Gryski Portfolio The Aliquando Press Books and Broadsides by William Rueter / text by Chester Gryski Would Being a Poet Save Me? by Carol Krause Poetry Passenger Paul, Three Trips on DARTS & The Map by Chris Pannell Poetry Philosophical Cento by Nevena Kovacevic Poetry photo synthesis: pictures of candidate for memory consolidation by Lisa Borkovich Poetry Final Notice, Turnkey, and The Man The Land The Vine The Lawn by Ben Robinson DOUBLE VISION: A Conversation On Their Fictions DOUBLE TROUBLE: Karl Jirgens & Steven Ross Smith Book Review On The Hauntings of Francine Cunningham’s On/Me by Johannah Bird Book Review Poems for Waawiiyaatanong: Reading Place in D.A. Lockhart’s Go Down Odawa Way by Johannah Bird Book Review Karl Jirgens and The Razor’s Edge by Michael Mirolla Book Review THE RAZOR’S EDGE, a collection of short stories by Karl Jirgens review by Stan Rogal HA&L CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!  Mundane is Radical – Black artists and thinkers to the front! Please send by August 3, 2023 CONGRATS to the 2023 City of Hamilton Arts Awards Nominees! BECOME A MEMBER OF HA&L!  RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP! Help HA&L to continue publishing! “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”  ― Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas. London: Hogarth Press, 1938 “Translation has always been an act that defies incomprehension and fear.” ― Kim Echlin, DEFY THE SILENCE 20 Poems by Rasha Omran, HA&L, 2018 Kim Echlin: GUEST EDITOR Paul Lisson: Editor Fiona Kinsella: Editor / Designer Associate Editor: Shane Neilson Founding Art Director: Peter Stevens (1963-2015) Contributing Editor: David Forsee (1944-2017) Hamilton Arts & Letters 15TH ANNIVERSARY issue sixteen.1   ISSN 1916-8454     HAL on Twitter                                            HA&L magazine acknowledges the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council an Ontario Government Agency, and the City of Hamilton. Sincere thanks to all of HA&L's members and sponsors – we wouldn't be here without you!