Issue Four
Cover art by Maya Lin
INSIDE ISSUE FOUR • SPRING 2018
POETRY
Les Murray
The Signboards
Lisa Russ Spaar
Three Poems
— Bald-faced Hornet Madrigal
— Lady Bird Taint Madrigal
— Tristesse Madrigal
Yudit Shahar
trans. by Aviya Kushner
Two Poems
— End of the Season
— Going to Eat the Whole Box
Hanif Abdurraqib
Two Poems
— The Ghost Of Marvin Gaye Stands Over His Father’s Grave And Forgets To Ask For An Apology
— MAN IT’S SO HARD NOT TO ACT RECKLESS
Linda Bierds
Three Poems
— On the Somme
— Lessons of the War: Deviant Identity Formations
— Identity Matrix: Alan Turing, 1952
Donika Kelly
A Poem to Remind Myself of the Natural Order of Things
Randall Mann
Beginning & Ending with a Line by Michelle Boisseau
Anni Liu
Two Poems
— Tracks
— Permaculture
Jessica Hudgins
Two Poems
— Poem with Bougainvillea Losing Its Leaves
— Strandline
Nomi Stone
Two Poems
— On Freezing My Eggs
— Driving Out of the Woods to the Motel
Jiang Hao
trans. by Chenxin Jiang
Spring Festival poem
Hannah Rego
Someone Asked What That, Moving Above Us, Was Called, and I Said, “Cloud”
Joan Naviyuk Kane
Three Poems
— A Few Lines With Abigail Chabitnoy
— A Few Lines With Sherman Alexie
— A Few Lines With Monique Sanchez
Heid E. Erdrich
Two Poems
— Nonfiction Craft Lesson in March
— Wild Turkey
Dong Li
Two Poems
— Mother Moss
— The Spittoon Carrier
Adam Tavel
1946
Kristin Robertson
Mullet Toss
Satoshi Iwai
Nervous Sky
Brian Clifton
Belief
Jusa Peltoniemi
trans. by Susan Bernofsky
Three Poems
— Deer and Children
— [Untitled]
— Self-Portrait
Iliana Rocha
I Watched a Bat Kill Itself in Yuma
FICTION
Lily Hoang
For Deviance
Sean Adams
Back to School
Pilar Quintana
trans. by María José Giménez
Bones and Hair
Leo Ríos
Dirty Dishes
Jeanne Benameur
trans. by Bill Johnston
The Child Who
Marta Zelwan
trans. by Victoria Miluch
Dreaming
Joanna Bator
trans. by Maggie Zebracka
The Comforter
Meng Jin
She and She and I
NONFICTION
Ladee Hubbard
Mafolie Hill
Jeannie Vanasco
Too Rushed
Meehan Crist
Two Pieces
— 10 Thoughts on Water
— 10 Thoughts on Illusion
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Driving the Cadillac to Valhalla
LaTanya McQueen
We Were Never Free
COMICS
Manuele Fior
trans. by Jamie Richards
Class Trip
ISSUE 04 MASTHEAD
Editor-in-Chief
Geoffrey Brock
Guest Editor
Davis McCombs
Managing Editor
Anthony Blake
Development Director
Cheyenne Autry
Outreach Director
Jacob Lindberg
Poetry Editor
Z.D. Harrod
Assistant Poetry Editors
Gwen Mauroner
J. Bailey Hutchinson
Fiction Editors
Frisco Edwards
Sacha Idell
Nonfiction Editor
Elizabeth DeMeo
Translation Editors
Jacob Collum
J.T. Mahany
Assistant Translation Editor
Samantha Kirby
Comics Editors
Rome Morgan
Claire Pincumbe
Reviews Editor
Elizabeth DeMeo
Interviews Editor
Patrick Font
Web Editor
Josh Moore
Assistant Web Editor
Joy Clark
Social Media Editor
J. Bailey Hutchinson
Designers
Anthony Blake
Josh Moore