Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“A Poetics of Relation: A Conversation with Eleni Sikelianos” – curated by Mary-Kim Arnold
A Celebration of New Books: A Multimedia Roundtable — curated by Mary-Kim Arnold
“In Dialogue with Yourself: An Interview with Kate Doyle” – curated by Wendy Chen
“Hypnotized by language: An Interview with Ruth Madievsky” – curated by Wendy Chen
“Hawk’s Cry: A Conversation with Mary Pacifico Curtis” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“An army of fantastical and very resilient witches: A Conversation with Luca de Gaetano about Art, Magic, and Alterity” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Turn Up the Heat: A Conversation with Ruth Danon” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Live in Suspense: A Conversation with David Groff” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“The Plague Doctor: A Conversation with James Morehead” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“My ancestors fought with arms... I fight with words—Interviews with four indigenous-minority poets” —curated by Ming Di
“Injecting new blood into native literature—Interviews with four indigenous poets from Xinjiang” — curated by Ming Di
“My tribal language is my window to see the world—Interview with Indigenous Bunun poet Bukun Ismahasan Islituan” — curated by Ming Di
“The act of translation highlights the impact of the smallest things: A Conversation with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello” — curated by Naoko Fujimoto
“Dead Girls: A Portfolio of Literature in Translation” — curated by Lisa Katz
“A Minoritized Language: A Portfolio of Galician Poetry in Translation” — curated by Lisa Katz
“Poets on Politics: A Portfolio of Literature in Translation” — curated by Lisa Katz
“I Feel Fine: A Conversation with Olivia Muenz” — curated by Christopher Salerno
“An alphabet of cypresses and light: A review of To the Cypress Again and Again: A Tribute to Salvador Espriu by Cyrus Cassells” — by Tiffany Troy
“i strike where my cunning becomes feminine: A Conversation with India Lena González about fox woman get out!” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“(late) towards purple sky: A Conversation with danilo machado about This is your receipt and is not a ticket for travel” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“I’d think about primrose in winter: A Conversation with Eric Stiefel about Hello Nothingness” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“The Show Must Go On: A Conversation with Charles Rammelkamp about A Magician among the Spirits” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“I know how to sever any angel from its vow: A Conversation with Kelly Weber about We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“Question-mark seeds away from the mother tree: A Conversation with Chike Nzerue about Architecture of Dust” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“let me too be flung into that selfsame lucky span: A Conversation with editor and poet Alexis Ivy about Barbara Helfgott Hyett’s Come Thunder“ — curated by Tiffany Troy
“A Conversation with Editors Rebecca Gayle Howell & Ashley M. Jones about What Things Cost: an anthology for the people” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“A Conversation with Editors Carol Alexander and Stephen Massimilla about Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“I cannot continue living in metaphor: A Conversation with Karisma Price about I’m Always So Serious” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“I tell time by counting teeth-marks around the crooked nipple: A Conversation with J. Hope Stein about little astronaut” — curated by Tiffany Troy
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
Geoff Bouvier – A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Virginia Konchan
Julie Choffel – A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Henk Rossouw
Flora Field – A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Maja Lee Langvad – “She Is Angry” – translated from the Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen
Curated & introduced by Ming Di
Blake Z. Rong – A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Carolyne Van Der Meer – A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Virginia Konchan
Simi Singh – from An Agreement of Wonder
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
J. Hope Stein – A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Molly Zhu – A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Editor’s Selections in Visual Art
Each artist selected & introduced by Mary Kathryn Jablonski
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Poetry
Bruce Bond — A Portfolio of Poetry
Emmanuelle Christie — “Sylvia Plath Observes her Wake”
Erin Conway-Smith — “Arctic Summer,” “2018 LA” & “Ox turn”
Brittney Corrigan — “Gray Wolf Elegy” & “Visiting the Cadaver Lab Two Weeks before College Decision Day”
Tianyi Duanmu — “Waiting for Snow”
Katie Gene Friedman — “Just by Looking,” “Supercharged Mutant” & “Third Dimension”
Sara Hovda — A Portfolio of Poetry
Natalie Martell — “Small Mourning”
Milica Mijatovic — “Summers spent back home taught me childhood”
David Moolten — “Rembrandt,” “A Fish” & “Chrysler New Yorker”
Barbara Murphy — “Our Quiet Spring”
Lisa Marie Oliver — “Elegy with Sumac and Praying Mantis” & “Winter Birds”
Ann Pedone — from Hotel Sappho
Mike Puican — A Portfolio of Poetry
Laura Ring — A Portfolio of Poetry
Avia Tadmor — A Portfolio of Poetry
Amish Trivedi — from the stages of dying
Abigail Ardelle Zammit — Daphne: five ways in which to burn
Prose
Brian J. Buchanan — “Old King Cole”
Benjamin Gibbons — “[footwear company name redacted]”
Andrew Ross — “Muslim Sea Burial”
Sam Schieren — “Spaghetti Man”
Lillian Slugocki — “That Summer in Yonkers”
Sharon White — “Minato Sketches”
Literature in Translation
Hazhibek Aidarhan — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated from the Chinese by Al Lim and Chrystal Ho
Renee Char — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated from the French by Eliot Cardinaux
Batsheva Dori — “I swear” — translated from the Hebrew by Lisa Katz
Eli Eliahu — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated from the Hebrew by Marcela Sulak
Chen Nianxi — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated from the Chinese by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and Kuo Zhang
Laura Pugno — “Sirene” — translated from the Italian by Danielle Pieratti
Lyor Shternberg — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated by Lisa Katz
Xiao Shui —“Morning and Evening Unmoving”— translated from the Chinese by Weijia Pan
Hu Xian — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated from the Chinese by Wang Ping
Yasuhiro Yotsumoto — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated from the Japanese by Takako Lento
A Celebration of Literary Criticism
Tara Ballard on Katie Farris’s Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
Miriam Calleja on J. Mae Barizo’s Tender Machines
Shannon Vare Christine on J. Hope Stein’s little astronaut
Shannon Vare Christine on Matt Mauch’s A Northern Spring
Shannon Vare Christine on David Groff’s Live in Suspense
Karin Falcone on James Morehead’s The Plague Doctor
Elizabeth Strauss Friedman on Alicia Elkort’s A Map of Every Undoing
Leslie Friedman on Dan Beachy-Quick’s translation of Sappho’s fragments, Wind, Mountain, Oak
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson on How to Live by Kelle Groom
Shannon Nakai on Nick Courtright’s The Forgotten World
Shannon Nakai on Stronger Than Fear, edited by Carol Alexander & Stephen Massimilla
Cheryl Passinisi on Mary Pacifico Curtis’s Hawk’s Cry
Katie Richards on Natasha Sajé’s The Future Will Call You Something Else
Julie Marie Wade on Omotara James’s Song of My Softening
Julie Marie Wade on Karisma Price’s I’m Always So Serious