Issue Nine
Cover Art by Karen Jerzyk
INSIDE ISSUE NINE • FALL 2020
POETRY
Antonia Pozzi
trans. by Amy Newman
Offering to a Tomb
Roberto Echeto
trans. by Jennifer Shyue
Lush Vortex
Shara McCallum
Crumbo-Jingle
Jacky Yuen
trans. by Nick Admussen
Dreamwalkers
Iman Mersal
trans. by Robyn Creswell
Five Poems
— Some things escaped me
— Respect for Marx
— It seems I inherit the dead
— Black Fingers
— Map Store
Dario Bellezza
trans. by Peter Covino
Two Poems, from Home
— My House, the Entrance Way
— Practical Activities
Imani Elizabeth Jackson
Hydrography #4
C.D. Wright Prize Winner
John Okrent
Barrows Goldeneye
Lídia Jorge
trans. by Margaret Jull Costa
Three Poems
— The Gentle Guard
— Happening
— The World’s Childhood
Ruth Williams
Sisters, We Must Hold the Water in Our Mouths
Dénes Krusovszky
trans. by Gabor G. Gyukics
The Source
Lucía Estrada
trans. by Olivia Lott
Three Poems
— Quotidian
— Offering
— Mare Nostrum
Tanella Boni
trans. by Todd Fredson
My patience lacks conviction
Safia Elhillo
The Matriarch
Aurélia Lassaque
trans. by Madeleine Campbell
Excerpts from In Search of a Face
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
trans. by Carlie Hoffman
Late Afternoon
Sergey Stratanovsky
trans. by James Kates
Brother-Bear
FICTION
Carol Bensimon
trans. by Alex Ladd
Everything that remains inside
Christopher Linforth
Darkroom
Shin Kyung-sook
trans. by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton
House on the Prairie
Bonnie Nadzam
This Is a Painting of a Man and a Train
Antón Lopo
trans. by Jacob Rogers
Excerpts from Extraordinary
Lisa Locascio
Laszlo's Discernment
Michele Mari
trans. by Brian Robert Moore
The Priest’s House
NONFICTION
Nate Duke
After, I’d Try Becoming a White Parapet
Sayantani Dasgupta
The Church of Santa Maria Nuova
Frederika Randall
Dispatriata
Clinton Crockett Peters
Hiking Tokyo
COMICS
Eun Sung Kim
trans. by Julie Moon
Excerpt from My Mother’s Story
ISSUE 09 MASTHEAD
Editor-in-Chief
Geoffrey Brock
Editor
Bryan Hurt
Managing Editors
Remy Reed Pincumbe
Kait Yates
Development Directors
Peter Mason
Assistant Development Director
Scot Langland
Outreach Director
Lily Buday
Poetry Editors
Victoria Hudson
Emma Van Dyke
Assistant Poetry Editors
Emma Jones
Scot Langland
Peter Mason
Fiction Editors
Kate Davis
Sidney Thompson
Nonfiction Editors
Romie Hernández Morgan
Steven Rybnicek
Translation Editors
David Brunson
Ryan Chamberlain
Comics Editor
Remy Reed Pincumbe
Reviews Editor
Ali Hintz
Interviews Editor
Vasantha Sambamurti
Web Editor
Sarah Browning
Social Media Editor
Hiba Tahir
Designer
Landon McGee
Copyeditors
Louise Cole
Victoria Hudson
Emma Jones
Samatha Kirby
Mackenzie McGee