Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020 | Masthead

Essays

Word from the Editor
Amanda Lopez

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

Fiction

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

Writing for Young People

The Things We Grow

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Hannah Abigail Clarke

Torn Between Two Lives

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

Hippotherapy

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Joyce Becker Lee

Big Girls Don’t Cry

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Susmita Bhattacharya

A Periwinkle Yesterday

December 2, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Susan Gillis Yarad

An Inch of Courage

December 2, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /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, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Victoria Richards

I Know Who Did It

November 21, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Christina Hoag

Poetry

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

Lunch Special

Chris Feliciano Arnold, Author

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

Interviews

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

Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

White Man’s Poison

November 21, 2019/in DWM Award, DWM Award, Winter-Spring 2020 /Kelley Jhung

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

November 21, 2019/in DWM Award, DWM Award, Winter-Spring 2020 /Mandy Brown

Love in the Archives

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

Creative Nonfiction

Decay

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

All of Us Are in Pieces

December 4, 2019/in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Nhung An

Picasso This and That

December 4, 2019/in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Rey Armenteros

What I Know to Be True

December 4, 2019/in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Mahdis Marzooghian

The Many Uses of Safety Pins

December 4, 2019/in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Anu Kandikuppa

Jedi Mind Tricks of an Anxious Girl

December 4, 2019/in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Autumn Shah

The Eastern Spadefoot

November 25, 2019/in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Robin Gow

To a Starving Body

November 25, 2019/in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Shreya Vikram

Flash Prose

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

Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts

Remembering Those Whose Names Are Forgotten

November 18, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo Prize, Winter-Spring 2020 /by Ji Yun, translated by Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum

Buwaya (Crocodile)

November 18, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo Prize, Winter-Spring 2020 /Enrique S. Villasis, translated by Scott Lee Chua

The Alabaster Cup

November 18, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo Prize, Winter-Spring 2020 /Silvia Guerra, translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine M. Pitas

Translation

An Oddly Satisfying Existence/ Leading Light/ The Anser

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

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

December 4, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 /by Siddhārtha Gautama, translated by Christopher Carter Sanderson

Marrow/ Boat People/ Balsero/ Ritual/ Exequias

December 3, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 /by Kelly Martínez-Grandal, translated by Melanie Márquez Adams

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

December 3, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 /by Sergio Mansilla Torres, translated by Cynthia Steele

Lampadophoria

December 2, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 /by José Castillo Baeza, translated by Allison A. deFreese

The Color of Envy

December 2, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 /by Kemal Varol, translated by Dayla Rogers