Issue Seven
Cover Art by Nikolina Petolas
INSIDE ISSUE SEVEN • FALL 2019
POETRY
Caki Wilkinson
Two Poems
— Ullage
— Weapon Salve
Brad Trumpfheller
Time’s not an arrow, more the place an arrow touches us
Salvador Espriu
trans. by Cyrus Cassells
Song of Twilight
Rajiv Mohabir
The King and the Koyal/Raja Aur Kokila
Christine Busta
trans. by Maria Fink
Two Poems
— Hoarfrost
— From a Different Vineta
Sy Hoahwah
Black Haw
Abraham Sutzkever
trans. by Maia Evrona
Today I Saw Mikhoels
George Kalamaras
What We Learn to Bow Down To
Maryann Corbett
A Choral Ode
Murathan Mungan
trans. by Aron Aji and David Gramling
Dreams of a Princess Awake
Major Jackson
Now That You Are Here, I Can Think
Alexandra Teague
Two Poems
— In the Glass Labyrinth at the Nelson Atkins Art Museum, the Rough Beast is Mistaken for the Minotaur
— Adult Coloring Book: Utopia
Sreshtha Sen
ठरक
James Davis May
Ode to a Horse’s Cock
Jerzy Jarniewicz
trans. by Piotr Florezyk
Two Poems
— The Last One to Leave Shuts the Door
— This World is a Fairy Tale
Adam Sol
Manifesto
Diana Khoi Nguyen
from Look
Rick Barot
Marimar
FICTION
Moikom Zeqo
trans. by Loredana Mihani and Wayne Miller
Two Stories
— The Griffin Fish
— Monk ZRC
Pete Segall
Recessional
Alessandro Baricco
trans. by Stiliana Milkova
The Boodman Syndrome
Ivan Shipnigov
trans. by Jasmine Alexander-Greene
Lenin’s Mausoleum
JoAnna Novak
Acacia
Antonio Tabucchi
trans. by Elizabeth Harris
Story of the Man of Paper
Helen Betya Rubinstein
For Fear of Extinction
Quim Monzó
trans. by Peter Bush
Instability
NONFICTION
Jodie Noel Vinson
The Collectors
COMICS
Fred Campoy & Mathieu Blanchot
trans. by Nerina Cocchi and Allison Grimaldi Danahue
A Life with Alexandra David-Néel
FEATURE
Obscure Connections: Two Early Works by Antonio Di Benedetto
translated & introduced by Esther Allen
— The Majority of the Animals in Our Zoo Are Native to Mendoza
— Element of Mystery
ISSUE 07 MASTHEAD
Editor-in-Chief
Geoffrey Brock
Managing Editor
Claire Pincumbe
Development Director
Peter Mason
Outreach Director
David Brunson
Poetry Editor
J. Bailey Hutchinson
Assistant Poetry Editors
David Brunson
Emma Jones
Josh Luckenbach
Peter Mason
Emma Van Dyke
Fiction Editor
Joy Clark
Assistant Fiction Editors
Patrick Font
Jenee Skinner
Nonfiction Editor
Anna Vilner
Translation Editors
Jacob Collum
Samantha Kirby
Assistant Translation Editor
Madeline Vardell
Comics Editor
Claire Pincumbe
Reviews Editor
Madeline Vardell
Interviews Editor
Emma Van Dyke
Web Editors
Josh Luckenbach
Josh Moore
Social Media Editor
Hiba Tahir
Designer
Landon McGee
Copyeditors
Patrick Font
Samatha Kirby