Editor’s Note
Editorial Features
“Strangers filled with their own haunting histories: A Conversation with Melora Wolff About Bequeath“— curated by Kristina Marie Darling
Two Innovators in Conversation: Jenny Grassl & Abigail Ardelle Zammit — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
The World Looked Like One Continuous Place: A Conversation with Regina Colonia-Willner on The Intersection of Poetry and Jungian Analysis through the Metaphor: In Creation You are Created — curated by Karin Falcone Krieger
At Work in Unseen Motion: An Interview with Anthropologist Amina Tawasil, author of Paths Made By Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran — curated by Karin Falcone Krieger
“Glaring Miracles Shining: A Conversation with Emily Bludworth de Barrios about Rich Wife”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“The child dreams up a door: A Conversation with Geoffrey Gatza about Self Geofferential”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“Without fear or filter: A Conversation with Jason Koo about No Rest”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“Writing With Outrage: A Conversation with Sophie Maríñez about Spirals in the Caribbean”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“The sharp tips of the orange crescent moon: A Conversation with Jennifer Martelli about Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“Caves, Echoes, and the Slippery Truth: A Conversation with Sameer Pandya about Our Beautiful Boys”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“Drop by drop, a wet knot slipping: A Conversation with Dwaine Rieves about Red Camaro”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“truth beauty”: A Conversation with Scott Ferry about Sapphires on the Graves — curated by Tiffany Troy
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
A Folio of Poetry by Ryan Cruz
Curated & introduced by Anastasia K. Gates
A Folio of Poetry by Jen DeGregorio
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Ark Two Memoir: an essay by J.C. Hallman
Curated and introduced by Erica Buist
“The Cu(l)t”: A Hybrid Text by Ananda Naima González
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
From Death of a Forest by Jónas Reynir Gunnarsson — translated by Mark Ioli
Curated & introduced by Abigail Ardelle Zammit
A Folio of Poetry by Esther Lin
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
From Codex of the Insane by Bronka Nowicka — translated by Katarzyna Szuster-Tardi
Curated & introduced by Abigail Ardelle Zammit
Editor’s Selection in Visual Art
Each artist selected by Kristina Marie Darling.
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Johanna Debiase — Video Poem: “When They Came for Us”
C.R. Grimmer & Ailyn Lee — “My Dearest Smoking Room, My Funnel of Silence,”
Carolyn Guinzio — “Character+Flaw”
Mark Wyatt — “Callisto in Confusion,” “Narcissus,” “Bacchanalian Revels at Sea,” “The Daughters of Minyas” & “Delos”
Tim Petersen — from Mementos Mori
Michelle Yun-Jeong — A Short Film: “Menage a Trois: Flour, Eggs, & Sugar”
Prose
Rebekah Chan — “Wind, Flower, Snow”
Ryan Habermeyer — “In the Necropolis Where Brigham Young Is Buried”
Sarah Ruhlen — “Where the Mile-Long Blazers Fly”
Dana Wall — “The Last Testimony of Glacier B-17”
Literature in Translation
Juanna Bignozzi — “Even in Old Age” — translated by Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman
from Mani Leyb’s Vunder Iber Vunder: “The Bird” — translated by Adam Tapper
Ling Fen — “fractals” — translated by Jonathan Chan
A Journey Through Latin America: Sixteen Voices
Selected, Introduced & Translated by Jeremy Paden
Ivonne Gordon (Quito, Ecuador, 1958)
Álvaro Mata Guillé (San José, Costa Rica, 1965)
Enrique Solinas (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1969)
Mario Meléndez (Linares, Chile, 1971)
Néstor E. Rodriguez (La Romana, Dominican Republic, 1971)
Paura Rodríguez Leytón (La Paz, Bolivia 1973)
Federico Díaz-Granados (Bogotá, Colombia, 1974)
Claudia Magliano (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1974)
Shirley Villalba (Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay, 1974)
Harold Alva (Piura, Perú, 1978)
Gema Santamaría (Managua, Nicaragua, 1979)
Claudia Meyer (San Salvador, El Salvador, 1980)
Jamila Medina Ríos (Holguín, Cuba, 1981)
Mariela Cordero (Valencia, Venezuela, 1985)
Gustavo Osorio de Ita (Puebla, México, 1986)
Zaira Pacheco (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1987)
Poetry
William Archila — “You will read an unknown book in an abandoned library— a piano in a distant room—”
Fez Avery — “Self Portrait as Plumber”
Laura Braverman — A Folio of Poetry
Sarah Carson — from I Kissed Dating Goodbye
Dolapo Demuren — A Folio of Poetry
Sofia Fall — “Sister” & “Passengers”
Al Favilla — “Eco-Dysphoria with Emerald Ash Blower” & “Eco-Dysphoria with Chestnut Blight”
Katherine Huang — A Portfolio of Poetry
Sally Rosen Kindred — “August, 1975”
Marianne Kunkel — “Married People Can’t Write Poetry”
Brian McCabe — A Folio of Poetry
Jill Mceldowney — “Horses When They Run Back into Burning Buildings”
Ugochukwu Okpara — “What We Hold”
Emily Oliver — “Mother Boarding”
Lynn Pedersen — “The Dendrologist’s Lecture” & “The Herpetologist’s Lecture”
Lisa Rhoades — A Folio of Sonnets
Lindsay Rockwell — “A Woman and Her Country”
Sophie Kaiser Rojas — A Folio of Poetry
Amy Wise Rothschild — “Self-Portrait as Luxury Mid-Rise Apartment Complex”
Matthew Thorburn — “Interior with Extension Cord”
Kate Welsh — “Disappearance” & “Mary Magdalene Reading”
Keith Woodruff — “Sympathy Cards”
Hafsa Zulfiqar— “And I’m communicating without a voice,”
A Celebration of Literary Criticism
Craving and Grief: Miriam Calleja Reviews Phantom Number by Spring Ulmer and Blue Atlas by Susan Ric
The Experimental Novel Comes of Age: Karin Falcon on The Visit by Ana T Kralj & Ischia By Gisela Heffes
Breathing Wild Creatures: Karin Falcone on Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return by CAConrad
Katie Manning’s 28,065 Nights: A Retrospective by Jonathan Fletcher
Observations and Astonishments: Rebecca Kaiser Gibson on Paradise Close by Lisa Russ Spar
Kathleen Bednarek on Leslie Ullman’s Unruly Tree
Shannon Vare Christine on Amanda Shaw’s It Will Have Been So Beautiful
Cristina Deptula on Jordan Dotson’s The Ballad of Falling Rock
Lizzy Itkin on Jamie Wendt’s Laughing in Yiddish
Lizzy Itkin on Leah Umansky’s Of Tyrant
Charles Rammelkamp on Cynthia Good’s In the Thaw of Day
Charles Rammelkamp on Steve Mentz’s Sailing Without Ahab
Chantale Van Tassel on Eleanor Kedney’s Twelve Days From Transfer
Cheryl Weaver-Amenta on David Bosworth’s Living in Language