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I’m tired. (Without formality, wouldn’t every academic article begin like this?) Because of my tiredness, which is both physical and conceptual, I devised a ruse to get me out of…

Introduction IKON was founded with the goal of synthesis, and part of its lasting value lies in the unique ways in which it accomplished that goal — and kept changing….

On the cover of a 1984 issue of Ondobondo, a male figure turns his back to readers, his gaze fixed on the chains in his hands. Dressed all in yellow,…

In 1962, Sergio Mondragón (b. 1935) and Margaret Randall (b. 1936) founded their literary journal El Corno Emplumado (The Plumed Horn) in Mexico City.1 A bilingual, transnational production, it stands out…

Although Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is one of the most remarkable contemporary poets of India, he has consistently refused to be constricted by the obvious or prescribed signs of Indianness. One’s…

The house of knowledge is bookended by a poetics of death. In issue one of Jimmy & Lucy’s House of “K” (1984-1989), the reader learns of two such passings. The…

I. So far in my learning through the Little Magazine in America Collection at University of Denver (DU) Libraries, my process has been this: mapless, I make my way through…