Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020 | Masthead

Essays

Word From the Editor

December 22, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Amanda Lopez, Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020

The Sign Language Alphabet, in Words

December 3, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Och Gonzalez

Politics and Art

December 2, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Dara Herman Zierlein

Dog of War

December 4, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Maria Zoccola

How to Be Royal

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Daniel Riddle Rodriguez

The Forgotten Voices

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Emily Mirengoff

Floating

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Benjamin Selesnick

Capillary Action

November 30, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Shanique Carmichael

A Brief History of Drills

November 30, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Paula Lynne

The Things We Grow

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Hannah Abigail Clarke

Torn Between Two Lives

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / by Julya Rabinowich, translated by Claire Storey

Hippotherapy

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Joyce Becker Lee

Big Girls Don’t Cry

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Susmita Bhattacharya

A Periwinkle Yesterday

December 2, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Susan Gillis Yarad

An Inch of Courage

December 2, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Virginia Elizabeth Hayes

Sticky Hands, Wild Hair, Bare Feet/ A Sky Right Above/ Father, where is your heart?/ Until death—

November 30, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Victoria Richards

I Know Who Did It

November 21, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Christina Hoag

From the Trees Full of Birdsong Comes Unripe Fruit

December 4, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Albert Abonado

Waorani Legend (With Appropriation)

December 4, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Lauren Brazeal

My Gardener

December 3, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Benny Sisson

Of a Fixed Nature

December 3, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Ronald Dzerigian

ednos

December 3, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Stephanie Yue Duhem

Not Yet Five / Mother

November 30, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Alafia Nicole Sessions

Post-Partum Jenga

November 30, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Katie Manning

Chris Feliciano Arnold, Author

December 2, 2019/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Buffy Visick

Lilliam Rivera, Author

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Sara Voigt

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Author

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Liz Netto

Sarah Manguso, Author

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Liz Netto

Isha Sesay, Journalist and Author

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Janet Rodriguez

David Groff, Editor

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Buffy Visick

Jaswinder Bolina, Poet and Essayist

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Barbara Fant

R.O. Kwon, Author

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Alexis McCadney

Maggie Smith, Poet

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Ale Cruz

Blas Falconer, Poet

November 30, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Regan Humphrey

Life Only Gets Harder, or Silver Plungers at a Pre-K Graduation

December 3, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mandy Brown

White Man’s Poison

December 1, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2020 / Kelley Jhung

Love in the Archives

November 18, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2020 / Eileen Vorbach Collins

All of Us Are in Pieces

December 6, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Nhung An

Picasso This and That

December 5, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Rey Armenteros

Decay

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Claire Boyer

The Eastern Spadefoot

December 2, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Robin Gow

The Many Uses of Safety Pins

November 30, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Anu Kandikuppa

What I Know to Be True

November 29, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mahdis Marzooghian

Jedi Mind Tricks of an Anxious Girl

November 28, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Autumn Shah

To a Starving Body

November 27, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Shreya Vikram

Two Ways

November 30, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Antonia Angress

Doll Code

November 30, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Amy Lyons

Hematophogous Creatures

November 30, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Melinda Bezdek

Rowboat

November 30, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Josh Krigman

The First One

November 30, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Matthew Mastricova

Everything In Its Right Place

November 21, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Emily James

Rainbow’s End

November 21, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Och Gonzalez

The Habits of Great Predators

November 21, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Michael Schoch

Pinned Butterflies

November 18, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Jenn Powers

The Beauty in Us: Graphite and Charcoal

Famous Umobuarie, 1975 II, 2019, Graphite and Charcoal, 29 inches x 25 inches

Art

Rock and Refuge: Mixed Media

December 3, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Carol Es

Caché Owens: Mixed Media

December 3, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Caché Owens

Still Lifelike: Oil Painting

December 2, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Sourena Zamani

Tandem: Digital Photography

November 30, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Emerald Arguelles

Penchant: Oil Painting

November 21, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Devan Horton

Forbidden Garden: Oil Painting

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Aleksandra Suvorova

Mutations: Mixed Media

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Huaiyi Tsai

The Beauty in Us: Graphite and Charcoal

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Famous Umobuarie

Daydreams: Digital Photography

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Guilherme Bergamini

The Forget Me Nots: Oil Painting

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Roger Allan Cleaves

The Alabaster Cup

December 1, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2020 / Silvia Guerra, translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine M. Pitas

Buwaya (Crocodile)

November 26, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2020 / Enrique S. Villasis, translated by Scott Lee Chua

Remembering Those Whose Names Are Forgotten

November 25, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Ji Yun, translated by Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum

An Oddly Satisfying Existence/ Leading Light/ The Anser

December 4, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mahdi Ahmadian

Lampadophoria

December 3, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by José Castillo Baeza, translated by Allison A. deFreese

The Support Verses, Earliest Sayings of the Buddha/ The Beatitudes

December 2, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Siddhārtha Gautama, translated by Christopher Carter Sanderson

Ghazals of Jahan Malek Khatun

November 30, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / Jahan Malek Khatun, translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian

It is always raining in our memory/ Untitled/ The Island Drank Up All the Air/ The Sunset

November 29, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Sergio Mansilla Torres, translated by Cynthia Steele

Marrow/ Boat People/ Balsero/ Ritual/ Exequias

November 28, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Kelly Martínez-Grandal, translated by Melanie Márquez Adams

The Color of Envy

November 27, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Kemal Varol, translated by Dayla Rogers

Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020 | Masthead

Essays

Fiction

Young Adult

Poetry

Lunch Special

Interviews

Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction

Flash Prose

Art

Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts

Translation

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