Issue 14: Winter/Spring 2019 | Masthead

Essays

Word from the Editor

December 7, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Kori Kessler

Alone in Company

November 20, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Chelsea Bayouth

Migrations

November 20, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Tatiana Garmendia

Girl’s Dresser – 1991

November 20, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Kobina Wright

Fiction

Laundry Lessons

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Jerilynn Aquino

Again Undine

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Devan Collins Del Conte

Making Reubens

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Teresa Milbrodt

Bandar

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Kailash Srinivasan

Do You Wanna Dance?

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Cynthia Sylvester

Walking Down the Grain

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Spencer Van Dyke

In the Yard

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Saba Waheed

Poetry

Sasha Fierce asks ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’

November 23, 2018/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Immaculata Abba

Q & A

November 23, 2018/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Chaun Ballard

Portrait of a Slave-Owner’s Wife

November 23, 2018/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Aileen Bassis

Architectural Integrity & Aretha Franklin Has Died

November 23, 2018/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Dalton Day

Mayhem—Arrival and Departure

November 23, 2018/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Kiyanna Hill

In Champaign, Illinois

November 23, 2018/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2019 /by You Li

Elegy, yet again

November 23, 2018/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Clara Paiva

Poem in Which You Are the Church

November 23, 2018/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2019 /by C.J. Strauss

Can You Remove Your Necklace During Work Hours?

November 23, 2018/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

Plaza Hospicio Cabañas (Guadalajara)

November 23, 2018/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2019 /by James K. Zimmerman

Writing for Young People

Hombrecito

November 23, 2018/in Winter-Spring 2019, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Melanie Márquez Adams

Chicken

November 23, 2018/in Winter-Spring 2019, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Diana Clark

Laura, Keeper of the Red Pandas

November 23, 2018/in Winter-Spring 2019, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Laura Gould

Katie’s Songs

November 23, 2018/in Winter-Spring 2019, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Hannah Grieco

Drought

November 23, 2018/in Winter-Spring 2019, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Chihye Naomi Kim

Our First Market Day

November 23, 2018/in Winter-Spring 2019, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Rachel King

irl

November 23, 2018/in Winter-Spring 2019, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Catey Miller

The Players

November 23, 2018/in Winter-Spring 2019, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Lauren Marie Schmidt

Beethoven For Chinese New Year

November 23, 2018/in Winter-Spring 2019, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Morgan Song

Lunch Special

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Author of The Fact of a Body

November 19, 2018/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2019 /Interviewed by E.P. Floyd

Interviews

Ben Loory, Author

November 23, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2019 /Interviewed by Andrea Auten

Jeff Shotts, Editor

November 23, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2019 /Interviewed by Barbara Fant

Khadijah Queen, Author, Poet

November 23, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2019 /Interviewed by Jordan Nakamura

David Ulin, Author, Critic, Editor

November 23, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2019 /Interviewed by Yvonne de la Cruz Sánchez

Francesca Lia Block, Author

November 23, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2019 /Interviewed by Adrien Kade Sdao

Creative Nonfiction

Sex Matters

November 23, 2018/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Mark Hall

Counting the Beats

November 22, 2018/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Jalina Mhyana

Never

November 20, 2018/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Brenda Miller and Julie Marie Wade

Reflections

November 20, 2018/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Marlene Olin

Hear and Release

November 19, 2018/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Wendy Palmer

Crabbing

November 18, 2018/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Helen Park

Area of Concern

November 17, 2018/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Colleen Rothman

The Right of Way

November 16, 2018/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Vonetta Young

Flash Prose

How to Brew Tea for a Funeral

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by J.M. Ellison

Plastic

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Corey Farrenkopf

Magic

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Jose Francisco Fonseca

O’er the Fields

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Andie Francis

The Boy Who Loved Red Bishops Too Much

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Raj M. Isaac

Butterfly

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Sanjana Raghavan

The Four Walls

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by D.H. Valdez

Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

Playing House

November 23, 2018/in DWM, DWM Award, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Alex Myers

Polar Nights

November 23, 2018/in DWM, DWM Award, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Megan Donnelly

Betrayed by Blood

November 23, 2018/in DWM, DWM Award, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Denise Tolan

Migrations: Mixed Media

Tatiana Garmendia, The Melting Pot, 2018, Oils on mylar, 20″ x 14″

Art

Reimagining My City: Mixed Media

November 23, 2018/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Farima Fooladi

Migrations: Mixed Media

November 22, 2018/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Tatiana Garmendia

Beyond the Black, Brown and Gold: Mixed Media

November 21, 2018/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Kiana Honarmand

Bacon Watercolors: Painting

November 19, 2018/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Monika Malewska

I Am a Magic Carpet: Mixed Media

November 18, 2018/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Yasmin Mazloom

Human.Male.Black.: Acrylic Paintings

November 17, 2018/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Lyle Rushing

Floating in the Upmost Corner: Photography

November 16, 2018/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Lindsay Tripp

Natural and Organic: Oil Paintings

November 15, 2018/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Ava Wang

Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts

Excerpts from Poems from My Diary

November 19, 2018/in Gabo, Gabo Prize, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Abraham Sutzkever, translated by Maia Evrona

Wulf & Eadwacer

September 28, 2018/in Gabo, Gabo Prize /by Anonymous, translated by M.L. Martin

Translation

We Were the New Era

November 23, 2018/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Andreas Baum, translated by Catherine Venner

Excuse Us & The Dead People of Mogadishu

November 22, 2018/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Marco Cinque, translated by Alessandra Bava

The Rapids

November 21, 2018/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Concha Espina, translated by Slava Faybysh

The Fourth Astral Plane & We Have Arrived

November 21, 2018/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Alex Galper, translated by Stella Padnos and Thomas Fucaloro

Tights & Buttons

November 19, 2018/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Bronka Nowicka, translated by Agnieszka Gabor da Silva