Issue 14: Winter/Spring 2019 | Masthead

Essays

Word From the Editor

Alone in Company

Migrations

Girl’s Dresser – 1991

Fiction

Laundry Lessons

Again Undine

Making Reubens

Bandar

Do You Wanna Dance?

Walking Down the Grain

In the Yard

Poetry

Q & A

Portrait of a Slave-Owner’s Wife

Mayhem—Arrival and Departure

In Champaign, Illinois

Elegy, yet again

Poem in Which You Are the Church

Plaza Hospicio Cabañas (Guadalajara)

Young Adult

Hombrecito

Chicken

Katie’s Songs

Drought

Our First Market Day

irl

The Players

Lunch Special

Interviews

Ben Loory, Author

Jeff Shotts, Editor

Khadijah Queen, Author, Poet

David Ulin, Author, Critic, Editor

Francesca Lia Block, Author

Creative Nonfiction

Sex Matters

Counting the Beats

Never

Reflections

Hear and Release

Crabbing

Area of Concern

The Right of Way

Flash Prose

How to Brew Tea for a Funeral

Plastic

Magic

O’er the Fields

Butterfly

The Four Walls

Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

Polar Nights

Playing House

Betrayed by Blood

Art

Reimagining My City: Mixed Media

Migrations: Mixed Media

Beyond the Black, Brown and Gold: Mixed Media

Bacon Watercolors: Painting

I Am a Magic Carpet: Mixed Media

Human.Male.Black.: Acrylic Paintings

Floating in the Upmost Corner: Photography

Natural and Organic: Oil Paintings

Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts

Wulf & Eadwacer

Excerpts from Poems from My Diary

Translation

We Were the New Era

Excuse Us & The Dead People of Mogadishu

The Rapids

The Fourth Astral Plane & We Have Arrived

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