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Johanna Hedva
JOHANNA HEDVA is the author of the novel, ON HELL. Their collection of poems and essays, MINERVA THE MISCARRIAGE OF THE BRAIN, will be published in September 2020. Their essay, ‘Sick Woman Theory,’ published in MASK in 2016, has been translated into six languages, and their writing has appeared in TRIPLE CANOPY, FRIEZE, BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW, and ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW. Their work has been shown at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Performance Space New York, the LA Architecture and Design Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon. Their album, THE SUN AND THE MOON, was released in March 2019, and they’re currently touring BLACK MOON LILITH IN PISCES IN THE 4TH HOUSE, a doom metal guitar and voice performance influenced by Korean shamanist ritual. Their novel, YOUR LOVE IS NO GOOD is out in May 2023 from And Other Stories.  

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‘They’re Really Close To My Body’: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and their resident mystic Robin Finck

Essay

Issue No. 27

Johanna Hedva

Essay

Issue No. 27

‘We possess nothing in this world other than the power to say “I”. This is what we must yield up to God.’ — Simone...

Book Review

October 2019

She, Etcetera

Johanna Hedva

Book Review

October 2019

Every brainy queer of my generation, especially those born under the sign of Saturn, went through a phase where...

  * * * zieleń jest zielona   z rana przymrozki   czujesz to w ziemi   w białej sukience   dalej przechodzą   nie wiedzą   jak zimno może być   w białej sukience     * * * greenery is green   come morning frost outside   you feel it in the ground   in their white dresses   on and on they pass by   not knowing   how cold it can get   in a white dress       * * * patronko dziewic i producentów świec woskowych daj któregoś z niebieskich pasterzy odetnę mu skrzydła żyletką * * * patron saint of virgins and the makers of ceremonial candles give me one of your heavenly hosts I will cut his wings off with a razor       * * * będziesz go kąpać osuszać ręcznikiem delikatnie kłaść do łóżka karmić jak niemowlę zrywać się nocą gdy zakwili będziesz go znowu miała jak twoje dziecko gdy wyrwiesz ziemi ciało i wtedy minie twoja gorączka * * * you will bathe him towel him off delicately lay him to bed feed him like a baby rise in the night when he moans will again have him like a child when you tear the body from the earth and then your fever shall pass     Genowefa Jakubowska-Fijałkowska’s poems have been published in numerous journals and newspapers, in her native Polish as well as in English, German, Czech, Russian and Slovene translations Her most recent bilingual collection, of me a worm and of the worm verses (2012), was published by OFF_PRESS in London Having twice been awarded the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship, she still lives and works in Mikołów

Contributor

March 2018

Johanna Hedva

Contributor

March 2018

JOHANNA HEDVA is the author of the novel, ON HELL. Their collection of poems and essays, MINERVA THE MISCARRIAGE...

Jonah

Fiction

Issue No. 21

Johanna Hedva

Fiction

Issue No. 21

After The Eliza Battle, I went to Berlin to recuperate, to nurse my pride. I had been there many times at that point, since...

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Interview

November 2011

Interview with Margaret Jull Costa

Sam Gordon

Interview

November 2011

On first impressions, this interview with Margaret Jull Costa, happening as it did – for the most part –...

feature

October 2014

Noise & Cardboard: Object Collection's Operaticism

Ellery Royston

Object Collection

feature

October 2014

The set is made of painted cardboard. Four performers grab clothes from a large pile and feedback emanates from...

Prize Entry

April 2017

The Lovers

Devyn Defoe

Prize Entry

April 2017

Everyone who asks questions, asks in some way about love. The question is one half, the answer the other....

 

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