INTERVIEWS Hanif Abdurraqib
interviewed by Ruth Awad
Joy Is Not Promised to You
ESSAYS Joshua Bernstein The Gospel of Dearth
  Tom Larsen The Nightmare Next Door
  Jerome Richard Good and Decent People
  Janette Schafer The Miracle of Ordinary
FICTION Eric Barnes Time Space
  Thomas Jacobs The Death of Z
  Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio

Fighting for His Brother

Recognition

  Matt Whelihan

A Painter's Secret

POETRY Roy Bentley

Orville Wright Lies Prone in a Flying Machine as His Brother Wilbur and Associate Dan Tate Give It a Running Start

  Nandini Dhar

This Allegory Landscape

  Deborah Flanagan

Cross-Country Skiing and Bratwurst: A Brief Study of Angela Merkel

The List of Unusual Deaths

The Right Way Home

  Alice B. Fogel

As If

Epiphyte

Mood Piece

  Marc Frazier Meditation One
  Stephen Gibson

The Art of Poetry: Summer of Love

Dec. 7th, 1941

  Carolyn Oliver

Interlopers

  Sergio Ortiz

Nightbird

Shortcut

  Katherine Riegel

Driving Through Alabama

Helpless

Wonders

  Barbara Kreader Skalinder In Defense of the Marriage Act
  Jane O. Wayne The Hazards
  Tori Grant Welhouse

Scottish Husband

  Michael T. Young

Song

The Mind as a Poor City Planner

What the Mind Hungers for

TRANSLATION

Mirza Sakit
translated by Murad Jalilov
and Kevin Rabas

[The nightingale is plucking out its feathers.]

 

Stanislav Stratiev
translated by Risa Shargel

The Snow Kept Falling

FEATURED
ARTIST
Epiphany Knedler Illuminating Disparity:
Economic Inquality in the Midwest


CONTRIBUTOR BIOS