Issue Four

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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