Issue 17: Summer/Fall 2020 | Masthead

Word From the Editor

June 13, 2020/in Essays, Summer-Fall 2020, Word From the Editor / Loumarie I Rodriguez

Fiction

Bob’s Bass Turd

December 5, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / C. Christine Fair

How to Skin a Fox

June 13, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Kelly Gray

Sympathy for Wild Girls

June 12, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Demree McGhee

Fault Lines

June 11, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Thomas Pia

Jouma

June 11, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Dor Shilton

Feng Shui and Other Subversive Religions

June 9, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Yong Takahashi

Cappuccino Take U-E

June 7, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Christine Kandic Torres

Poetry

Recipe for Dream Deferred Jambalaya after Langston Hughes / Swimming Lessons

June 13, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Ariana Benson

A PAIR OF PARROTS COME IN FOR SURGERY

June 12, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Ian Cappelli

1973

June 11, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Laura Falsetti

Proclamación de Amores

June 10, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Cesar Galan

Opuntia stenopetala / translation or prayer / luciérnaga

June 9, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / María José Giménez

At the Lynching Museum, Bryan Stevenson Says / Signs Nailed to the Mailbox on Winnequah Road / Reparations

June 8, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Dominic W. Holt

Signs Of Spring / Who Made The World / Black Gold

June 7, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Halee Kirkwood

LOLITA ERASURES: 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 14, 18

June 7, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Eva Della Lana

Whales of the Allegheny / The Crown and Anchor Pub / The Nurse Log

June 6, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Tobias Peterson

Dear Mama / Watercolor / They Tell Us to Live in the Moment Because the Moment is All We May Have

June 5, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Kimberly Ann Priest

Depression Aubade, or My Therapist Has a Breakthrough / Feedback

June 4, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Tyler Raso

An Ode to MC Jin Ending in Response to the Chinese Virus Outbreak

June 3, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Masaki Takahashi

Young Adult

Addressing Why I Didn’t Do My Homework and Other Things

June 7, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Nicole Hebdon

Pulled Apart

June 6, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Lily Neusaenger

Ferris Wheel

June 5, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Rachel Raiola

Pinky Promises

June 4, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Diana Louise Vancura

Lunch Special

Angela Morales, Author and Essayist

June 7, 2020/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Regan Humphrey

Interviews

Jen Brody and Jules Rivera, Authors

June 13, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Adrien Kade Sdao

Victoria Chang, Author, Poet, MFA Program Chair

June 12, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Janet Rodriguez

Alexander Chee, Author

June 11, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Michael Sellar

Genevieve Hudson, Author

June 10, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Louise Rozett

Ilya Kaminsky, Author

June 9, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Janet Rodriguez

Katelyn Keating, Writer, Editor, Publisher

June 8, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Barbara Platts

Aditi Khorana, Author

June 7, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Louise Rozett

Aminah Mae Safi, Author

June 6, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Regan Humphrey

Esmé Weijun Wang, Author

June 5, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Janet Rodriguez

Creative Nonfiction

On Twerking and Writing

June 13, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Rois M. Beal

Ambiguity

June 12, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Storey Clayton

Monstera Deliciosa Variegata: Grief and the Search for a Rare Houseplant

June 10, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Sarah Hoenicke

A Life in Six Thousand, Five Hundred and Forty Songs

June 9, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Pat Hulsebosch

42,844

June 8, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Megan Lea

Returning to My Father’s Kitchen

June 7, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Monica Macansantos

The Story of the Family Samovar

June 6, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Nadja Maril

Flash Prose

Ash Wednesday

June 13, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Janet Albaugh

Shedding

June 12, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Karen Bowers

Casual Contact

June 11, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Alfred Fournier

It Happened at 4:32 pm After Daylight Savings

June 10, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Angie Kang

Thickly Settled / Flight Risk

June 9, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Laura S. Marshall

Necessary Shadows / Flowercrackers / Empty Stomach Full Belly

June 8, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Vikram Ramakrishnan

Before the Shrine of My Fermentation Cabinet

June 7, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Hannah Suchor

Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

Master of Light

June 11, 2020/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2020 / Sue Hann

An Ancestor’s Legacy

June 5, 2020/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2020 / Tom Wade

Festering, 2018

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Art

In the Dark

June 14, 2020/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2020 / Louisa Armbrust

Acabando Nos Vamos

June 13, 2020/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2020 / Noel Becerra

Vulnerability Has No Boundaries

June 11, 2020/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2020 / Jakki Daley

Mi Religión

June 10, 2020/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2020 / Gabi Magaly

The Selfie: A Physical-Digital Hybrid of the Human Face

June 9, 2020/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2020 / Sophia Maggio

Sentiments in Clay

June 8, 2020/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2020 / Hallie Maxwell

Dreams and Fantasies

June 8, 2020/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2020 / Mohammad Shirvanizadeh

Sex After Rape

June 6, 2020/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2020 / Zarra TM

Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts

Panama, whether in the Pacific or the Atlantic, and other poems

June 12, 2020/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2020 / Javier Alvarado and Lucía Estrada, translated by Russell Karrick

Excerpts from Singing Through Clenched Teeth

June 8, 2020/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2020 / Yoysef Kerler, translated by Maia Evrona

Translation

BATALHA DA PRAÇA DA SÉ, 1934 / LETTER TO THE CENSOR, 1939

June 13, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Paula Abramo, translated by Dick Cluster

Forgetting My Mother

June 11, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Barbara Bedin, translated by Rachele Salvini

Untitled Selections From L’Adolescence

June 10, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller

The Doll’s House / Let’s go! To Paris not to live, but to die / No Need to Savor Youth

June 9, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Na Hye-Sok, translated by Tanya Ko Hong

Dead Fox

June 7, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Julia Lukshina, translated by Anne O. Fisher