News and Events
Features
Latest Issue
Highlights from the latest issue
-
MPT’s summer issue ‘The House of Thirst'
EDITORIAL: In 2017 the annual report by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association found that 72 countries around the world criminalise same-sex relationships, including 45 which outlaw sexual relationships between women...
-
Geography
Jayan Cherian 'gather up
love like a full
fishing net watch it
writhe this
muscular wetness
pierce a glory-
hole into the navy
sky...'Translated by Richard Scott
-
A Flyer
Norman Erikson Pasaribu ‘This software will assemble a series of steps that
will guarantee you’ll be happy for the rest of your life.
It was created in response to skewed notions of ‘happiness’
which have caused acute sorrow of pandemic proportions.’Translated by Tiffany Tsao
-
Are These Guys Gay or Merely
Friedrich Chernyshov 'are these guys gay or merely
from Moscow
you enjoy Ukrainian Russian
mixing up the prepositions
hugging in the Tretyakov gallery
diluting Russian with Ukrainian'Translated by Tatiana Retivov
-
Elegy
Sheikh Raza Talabani 'When my dick got hard, he didn’t ask, ‘Relative or stranger?’
He slugged away at whatever he had, from the front or the back.
Though large, I have fit him into so many tight holes that 'Translated by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, Shene Mohammed and Srusht Barzan
-
Grief Eaters
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld 'While one has never known what makes him morose, the other is
morose because of everything he knows and wishes he didn’t, I sit
here on my mattress in the late afternoon with bubble solution in my
hands, see in every soapy bubble myself mirrored and then shattered'Translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
Join us on