2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (454+ words) Blending Seon Buddhism and French symbolism, Lee Seong-bok pens enigmatic elegies to impermanence. “The rhythm of poetry is like that of a mourner’s,” writes the acclaimed South Korean poet Lee Seong-bok in Indeterminate Inflorescence. “Two steps forward, one step back......

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (150+ words) Inside a Cologne exhibition that treats devotional objects as unfinished until they’re used Rösch’s curation gives the artworks room to hold their own weight—steady and unhurried, the way a devotional object is meant to be approached. The show’s opening…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (269+ words) In experimental elegies for his homeland, Samyak Shertok’s poetry articulates a “ghost language” for grief and loss. Growing up in rural Nepal, Samyak Shertok never thought he would become a poet. In his childhood village where he says the only…...