ISSUE EIGHT
Fame and Obscurity
POETRY
EMILY PETTIT
Alice Aster Approaches
Built Slowly
JENNIFER HASEGAWA
Drippy Leg Mystery Solved
LAUREN SHAPIRO
The Memory
MICHAEL TEIG
At this point my confusion
MAIA SIEGEL
Natasha and Fred
The Kroger Car-Loading Service
MEGAN J. ARLETT
The Fifth Marquess of Anglesey
ELIZABETH HUGHEY
The Matinee
Misty
JACOB MONTGOMERY
Astronomy
Self-Portrait (Me)
ONI BUCHANAN
Just the Other Day
Above This Top-Down Labyrinth
KATHLEEN OSSIP
Bluebird
Stones
ANNE MARIE ROONEY
I was sorrow
Death Party
JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ
The Centaur
The Human Puzzle
jayy dodd
Unlucky Duplex (Slick Mouth)
Every Morning I Have to Make Sure This
Is When I’m From
TROY JOLLIMORE
That Life
KIRSTEN ABEL
The Middle of Your Life
BRENT ARMENDINGER
Saints
CATHERINE PIERCE
Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals
Fable for the Final Days
STEPHANIE HORVATH
Sirens
ROB SCHLEGEL
The Maelstrom
Before the Goddess of Just and Equal
Boundaries
ELLEN MCGRATH SMITH
Pledge
SONG LIN
Remembering Another Journey on the
La Plata River Ferry
(translated by Dong Li)
JARED HARÉL
The Other Side of Desire
ED SKOOG
Morning
Kaw, a River
AMANDA AUERBACH
Plucked Petals
Eyeshadow Petals
IZZY CASEY
I’m Piss Witch
CHRISTOPHER KONDRICH
Resignation Syndrome
JENNY BROWNE
Holy Kamikaze Jackrabbits
TR BRADY
Interlude:
Would you rather
EMILY BROWN
Well I’m Still in My Body
VALERIE HSIUNG
Don’t tell me
ROCHELLE HURT
My Apologies
A Prayer for Containment
Thigh High
CANESE JARBOE
We Only Speak Through Walkie-Talkies with Impossible Range
KIRSTEN KASCHOCK
No Michelangelo
LEORA FRIDMAN
I Hate It
ERIKA MEITNER
This Volatile Taxonomy
SIMONE MUENCH and
JACKIE K. WHITE
Pall
RYO YAMAGUCHI
Saturation #1
Saturation #2
Saturation #3
ELIZABETH WILLIS
My Love Is a Mirror Neuron
What Else in Art Do You Pay For
MELISSA DICKEY
from Plant in Relation to the Spring
[Once church fair music]
[Steam rises outside the window]
ROBERT FERNANDEZ
Arthur Rimbaud
MIGUEL MURPHY
Shakespeare
DAVID LEHMAN
Variations on a Theme
Derby Day
DAVID KIRBY
The 1909 Air Show at Brescia
Don’t Look
ANNIE KANTAR
Diagonal Winds
BARBARA TRAN
Resilient in Rain
JARED STANLEY
Appetite and Forgetting
ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY
Ricardo Flores Magón (1874–1922)
George S. Patton (1885–1945)
JORDAN STEMPLEMAN
No Such Elsewhere
B.J. BEST
from Ornithoncology
[Shake it off, I say to myself after falling]
[Daylight is not a democracy, I tell you]
EMMA BOLDEN
When You’re a Star, They Let You Do It
PATRICK MORRISSEY
Inaugural
DAN ROSENBERG
No Radio No Beloved No
RICHARD JONES
The Blizzard
How It Will End
DANIEL NESTER
The Failed Saratoga Colonic Fable
SEAN SINGER
Two Waves, Brightly Lit
Layers
ELIZABETH LINDSEY ROGERS
Gravida
MOLLY KUGEL
Bluebell, Harebell, Witch's Thimble
KELLY HOFFER
age of decadence//sericulture//
summoning spell
THEODORE WOROZBYT
Subscribed
The End
FICTION
NICHOLAS DELBANCO
Suite
CYNTHIA CRUZ
Steady Diet of Nothing
STUART NADLER
Fania
MARCOS GIRALT TORRENTE
Shedding Skin
(translated by Thomas Bunstead)
SIAMAK VOSSOUGHI
A Sportswriter
LUCY CORIN
Redact
DAVID CROUSE
Equipment for Lovers
PETE SEGALL
Three Moments from My Voyage
NICOLE HAROUTUNIAN
After America
BONNIE CHAU
Chinese Box
NONFICTION
ELISA ALBERT
Early Autobiography via Proximity to
Fame, or When People Ask What It Was
Like Growing Up in L.A.
KELLE GROOM
When I’m Dead I’ll Learn to Travel
KIRSTEN KASCHOCK
The Urgency of Being
ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS
Walks with Auster
(translated by Mara Faye Lethem)
CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER
Practicing Piano
NADIA OWUSU
The Heat of Dar es Salaam
JODY KENNEDY
Quetico
COLIN RAFFERTY
Kansas, She Said, Is the Name of the Star
(#34)
CHRIS SHORNE
Dishes
FILM
JUSTIN PHILLIP REED
Logic & Optics: Gothika (2003)
Awaiting Acknowledgment: Alien 3 (1992)
INTERVIEW
ELIZABETH WILLIS
in conversation with
KATRINA TURNER
COVER ART
DAVID GRACIE
David