Issue 25: Summer/Fall 2024 | Masthead

A Word from the Editor

June 1, 2024/in Essays, Summer-Fall 2024, Word From the Editor / Jessica Ballen

Fiction

Stranger Love

May 15, 2024/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2024 / Christopher Labaza

Unrecognizable

May 14, 2024/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2024 / Patricia Ljutic

Restitution City

May 12, 2024/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2024 / Pia Quintano

Two Bags of Cheerios

May 9, 2024/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2024 / Priscilla Thompson

Poetry

Walnut Hill

May 20, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2024 / Soon Jones

The Pink Note God Pinned to My Shirt

May 3, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2024 / Mickie Kennedy

Two Poems

May 1, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2024 / Rachel Walker

Young Adult

Circus Act

June 1, 2024/in Summer-Fall 2024, Young Adult, Young Adult / Deidre Cavazzi

The Manifesto

May 7, 2024/in Summer-Fall 2024, Young Adult, Young Adult / Ilse Eskelsen

Silver Mints

May 4, 2024/in Summer-Fall 2024, Young Adult, Young Adult / Mari Katherine Prieto

Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

Walking the Walls

June 6, 2024/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2024 / Nuha Fariha

Preservation Response

May 7, 2024/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2024 / Kylie A Hough

Flaws

May 7, 2024/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2024 / Jer Xiong

Lunch Special

Nothing is Wasted: Poet Ellen Bass on Craft

May 17, 2024/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2024 / Interviewed by Scott LaMascus

Interviews

What You Write Teaches You: An Interview with Marcia Bradley

July 18, 2024/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2024 / Interviewed by Kevin J. Cummins

A Poet’s Path to Finding Their Voice in Verse: A conversation with poet and translator Christian Gullette

June 23, 2024/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2024 / Interviewed by Paula Williamson

Trust Your Gut: An Interview with Tom Schulman

May 30, 2024/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2024 / Interviewed by Kevin J. Cummins

The Curious Case of a Woman in Hollywood: Robin Swicord’s Path to Adapting Stories for the Silver Screen

May 28, 2024/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2024 / Interviewed by Karen Gaul Schulman

Flash Prose

Mujer de la Luna / Moon Woman

May 4, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2024 / Sarah Chavera Edwards

Sweet Tooth

May 3, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2024 / Melissa Fitzpatrick

You and a Guest Will Fly Round-Trip Coach from Los Angeles to Beautiful Maui

May 3, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2024 / Sarah Freligh

Flight 800

April 3, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2024 / Kathryn Kulpa

Translation

Evangelina’s Vacation

May 29, 2024/in Summer-Fall 2024, Translation, Translation / Fernando Silva, translated by Peggy Morrison

Unrelenting Grief

May 21, 2024/in Summer-Fall 2024, Translation, Translation / Appadurai Muttulingam, translated by Thila Varghese

Today is the Present by Kathy Bruce

Collage person standing in moss and leaves with pink and black background

Visual Art

Object Lessons

July 11, 2024/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2024 / Kathy Bruce

When Horse-Drawn Carriages Still Rattled

May 16, 2024/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2024 / Dibyasree Nandy

Wrecked

May 1, 2024/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2024 / Patty Paine

Solace

April 18, 2024/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2024 / Lawani Sunday

Puzzle Pieces

April 15, 2024/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2024 / Margaret Wilson

Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts

I Don’t Know If You Can Hear the River

August 23, 2024/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2024 / Ximena Gómez, the author, and George Franklin co-translated this poem

Trauma 4DX

May 23, 2024/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2024 / Hendri Yulius Wijaya, translated by Edward Gunawan

The Passivevoicefreeword

April 23, 2024/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2024 / John Tinneny (self-translation)

Creative Nonfiction

In My Arms

June 7, 2024/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2024 / Kelly Gray

Vanilla

May 7, 2024/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2024 / Jennifer Pinto