Sad Mag launches issue two on December 17. Until then, we’re releasing sneak peeks from the new issue.

“In Ghana, there are many more poets who are just throwing politics at you without apology. Here, if we do that, we apologize a lot or we cloud it with some artifice. There, they’ll just say right in the middle of the poem, ‘and the President is a really lousy guy.’ We don’t get that.”

— Rob Taylor, as told to Deanne Beattie

Winter 2009, ISSUE TWO