Three Fold

three fold issue no. nine—winter 2023

Film screenings by Raven Chacon & Cristóbal Martinez, Sky Hopinka, New Red Order and Miguel Hilari | ThousandSuns Cinema through January 30

Media City Film Festival presents ThousandSuns Cinema, featuring more than 60 films and digital artworks by Indigenous artists from Turtle Island and around the world, co-selected and presented with COUSIN Collective. Short and feature films are screening for free online globally, including new restorations and recent work by Alanis Obomsawin, Anastasia Lapsui, Cecilia Vicuña, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Caroline Monnet, Fox Maxy, Svetlana Romanova, Shelley Niro, and many more through January 30 at mediacityfilmfestival.com

Images: Raven Chacon & Cristóbal Martínez, A Song Often Played on the Radio, 23 min, 2019. All stills, photographs, and artwork courtesy © Raven Chacon & Cristóbal Martínez. Screening co-presented with San Francisco Cinematheque and Three Fold Press, Detroit

Life After Prison: The First Three Months
By James D. Fuson

“I slept that last night, all the way through. I wasn’t sure if I could. Everyone told me I wouldn’t. But I did. I woke up about an hour earlier than normal, but I used that time to get ready by taking a shower, sitting down, and mentally preparing, until my bunkie, Mario, woke up.”

Sweet Extinction
By Francis McKee

“George Herriman’s comic strip Krazy Kat ran in William Randolph Hearst’s newpapers from 1913 to 1944. It began, though, as a footnote in another of the artist’s strips, The Dingbat Family, in 1910. Running in the gutters of that strip, a tiny cat found itself pursued by an even smaller mouse who, on July 26, 1910, threw his first brick at the cat’s head.”

Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Eight
By Lynn Crawford

“Freud wrote ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ in 1917, during World War I, while living in Vienna. The essay is a fascinating lens through which to read and consider Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Georges Perec’s novel, Things.”

This is the eighth installment of Lynn Crawford’s series Imaginary Dinner Party, a work of part fiction, part essay, exploring what happens when books join forces. Read the series from the beginning.

Poetry in the winter issue by Jena Osman, Charles Bernstein, Robert Laidler, Brenda Coultas and Norma Cole

Browse through our growing archive to read works by more than 40 poets we’ve published since the journal’s founding in 2020. Three Fold’s poetry section is edited by Detroit poet and playwright, Chris Tysh.

Previous issues of the journal are now tucked away. Visit the link located at the bottom of this page to peruse everything we’ve published so far.