John McVey. detail of mis-scanned photograph of “Cobblestone and brush dam of Fresno Canal, Kings River”
from Harvard copy of USGS Water-supply and Irrigation Papers no 18 (1898)
(since corrected by Google)
Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“Magic Sand: Fairy-Tales, Technology, and Feminism – A conversation with Andri Alexandriou” — by Andrea Applebee
“In the Empty Theatre: An Interview with Mary Jo Bang & a Portfolio of New Translations”—curated by Nancy Naomi Carlson
“An Experimental Formalist: A Conversation with Alan Michael Parker” —curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Creating subversive work empowers me: A Conversation with Brenna Womer & a Folio of Poems”—curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Una traición más alta: Contemporary Mexican Poets” – edited by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Ezequiel Zaidenwerg
“A Personal Remembrance: Kamau Brathwaite” – by Bronwyn Mills
“This Is What I Would Say if My Own Experience Had Happened to Me: A Micro-Interview with Sally Ball” —curated by Lisa Olstein
“The Way a Map Is a Unit of Time: A Micro-interview with Traci Brimall” —curated by Lisa Olstein
“An Extravagant Permission: A Micro-interview with Chad Bennett” — curated by Lisa Olstein
“To connect figures of isolation and affliction: An Interview with Andrew Hungate” – conducted by Zach Savich
A Special Forum on Poetics: “Poetic Language & the Outside”
“Speaking in Tongues: Poetry and the Residues of Shared Language” by Daniel Tiffany
With Responses By:
Caroline Bergvall
Mike Chasar
Jos Charles
Alexis Chema
Michael Davidson
Jeff Dolven
Edgar Garcia
Rob Halpern
Kate Lilley
Heather McHugh
David Nowell-Smith
Sianne Ngai
Eugene Ostashevsky
M. NourbeSe Philip
Sean Pryor
Lauri Scheyer
Susan Schultz
Barry Schwabsky
Tyrone Williams
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
Sarah Haas – “On Self-Regard”
Curated & introduced by Victoria Chang
Joanna Luloff – “Escape”
Curated & introduced by Seth Brady Tucker
Linda Masi – “American Visa”
Curated & introduced by Seth Brady Tucker
Emily Rosko – “When You Say You Wish You Were Dead,” “Course & Ripple” & “The Marks”
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
G.C. Waldrep – “OVATOR”
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Nancy Woo – “Third Culture” & “The Line Between”
Curated & introduced by Victoria Chang
Editors’ Selections in Visual Art
Each artist chosen & interviewed by Elaine Sexton.
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Kristy Bowen – from unusual creatures
Laura Frare & Mary Kathryn Jablonski – “Nightjar”
Elisabeth Frost & Dianne Kornberg – A Folio of New Collaborative Work
Ryan Mihaly – from B-Flat Clarinet Fingering Chart
Alexandra Huddleston & Robert Huddleston – “Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin”
Poetry
Kirsten Allio – “Dunes” & “Swan Point VII/Noah”
Threa Almontaser – “Muslin Madonna” & “Robbery”
Lilly Beshore – “If I Had Known, All the Time Left”
Nicole Cooley – “After My Mother Dies, I Crave the Seventies”
Gillian Cummings – “House of No Memory”
Rachel Blau DuPlessis – “Diaries”
Jennifer Firestone – “Photograph”
Gabrielle Frahm-Claffey – “Eulogy”
John Gallaher – “Architecture 18: Method Acting” & “Architecture 19: You Are in the Ghosts”
Nicole Caruso Garcia – “The Exterminator”
Christian Anton Gerard – “Moonshine”
Matthew Guenette – “I WAS PLAYING ONLINE CHESS”
B. Fulton Jennes – “Ghazal: To a Wild Child, Grown,” “Black Bread,” & “Eating Dinner, After You Died”
Julia B. Levine – “Hast thou not poured me out,” “Psalm with Lung Cancer,” & “God Speaks from the Almond Orchard”
Edward Mayes – “SAX SEX SIX SOX SUX,” “WELD MADDER WOAD,” & “DAY SHIFT”
Emilie Menzel – “I Approach and Notice” & “Ellis”
Sarah Kathryn Moore – “Witchtending”
Catherine Pierce – “Burrowing Crayfish Ode”
Raena Shirali – “on projection,” “the mountains recall the myth,” & “daayan looks to the earth”
Renee Soto – “Road Trip: Sight Seeing”
Leah Tieger – “Baby’s First Word” & “Poem with Two Mothers”
Kelly Weber – “Abstinence” & “Aroace Girl: Plainsong Elegy”
Prose
Laurie Blauner – “Everything Is Everything Else”
Julia Cohen – from Freak Lip: “Try to Relax Your Body”
Jeff Frawley – “The Malavenda Season”
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter – “Bird = Escape”
Sasha Steensen – “The (Un)Familiar Essay”
Translation
Paula Abramo – from FIAT LUX – translated by Dick Cluster
Daniel Calabrese – “The Soundless Songs” and “Method for Calculating Time” – translated by Katherine M. Hedeen
Hui Di – “Poetry and Life”, “Five Stanzas,”, “In the Country Fed by Lies,” “Magnolia,” & “Han Palace in Autumn” – translated by Miroslav Kirin
Şükrü Erbaş – “Eclipse of the Moon,” “Almond Tree, Two Children, Bee Eaters,” & “Take the Green Windows” – translated by Derick Mattern
Alex Simões – “thousand&Thanatos” & “while i listen” – translated by Carolyne Wright