Issue 38
Fall 2016
Fiction
George Michelsen Foy, Seven Stories
Sharon Mesmer, The Starry Dynamos
Margarita Mateo Palmer, Gelsomina in the Garden of the City, translated by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed
Nick Kocz, Pacto del Olvido
Matthew Baker, Meanwhile
Tim MacGabhann, Better
Mimi Kawahara, Twenty-Nine Questions for an Intelligent Designer
Tara Deal, Study Abroad
Peter Bichsel, Old Age, Years, Companions of the Same Birth Year
translated by Lydia Davis
Charles Bock, Playing Is Better
Jenessa Abrams, For After
Yuri Herrera, The Obituarist translated by Lisa Dillman
Interviews
Rachel Zucker and David Trinidad, A Conversation
Alisa Koyrakh, An Interview with Lorrie Moore
Cover art by Madeleine Barnes
Poetry
Naomi Shihab Nye, Two Poems
Emily Brandt, Taking Up Space
Leslie Marie Aguilar, Joyland
Iman Mersal, Two Poems translated by Robin Moger
Thomas Dooley, Two Poems
Jonathan Jones, wake-up
Carmen Giménez Smith, Two Poems
Jay Deshpande, Three Poems
Jesse Nathan, Two Poems
Ana Božičević, Santa Mania
Gemma Gorga, [It requires the utmost attention], translated by Sharon Dolin
Jos Charles, from feeld
Ellie Francis Douglass, I Took the Strand of Days and Made a Sparrow
Ursula Andkjær Olsen, from Third-Millennium Heart, translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen
John Bonanni, Reproduction
Toby Altman, Two Poems
Kerri French, Say the Eels Return
Chelsea Dingman, Two Poems
Robin LaMer Rahija, An Iranian Rat Explains Blast Off
Elizabeth O’Brien, Romp
Sam Corfman, I, a made thing
Sam Ross, Modern Medicine
Safia Elhillo, triptych
Flávio de Araújo, from Zangareio, translated by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren
Jessica Jacobs, Post-op, still out of it, you said, I would
Lucia LoTempio, Sirens
Sarah Bates, But Beetles