Issue 8: Summer/Fall 2023
Poetry
“Apostrophe,” “Lottery (I’ll never know)”
by Kristin Robertson
Poetry
“Fallen,” “Mirror and Table”
by Brian Kim Stefans
Poetry
“Racket on the Petals,” “Hedge Man,” “Vanishing Point Canto,” “Freddie Mercury in Paradiso,” “Jeanne Lee, Conspiracy”
by Diane Mehta
Essays/Nonfiction
“Vanguard Mail Operations”
by Kristen Gallagher
Poetry
Morning Without School
by Caitlin Thomson
Poetry
“self-portrait with atmospheric river & cougar sighting,” “self-portrait with hummingbird & beaver moon,” “You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know”
by Marci Vogel
Poetry
Dummy Ventriloquist
by Michelle Bitting
Conversations
Attuning Yourself to Yourself: A Conversation with Victoria Chang
by Matthew Zapruder
Poetry
“Falling Blue, 1963,” “Untitled # 10, 1990,” “Grey Stone II, 1961”
by Victoria Chang
Essays/Nonfiction
Community Is My Poetics: the 2023 Chowdhury Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech
by Victoria Chang
Coming September
Essays/Nonfiction
“In Praise of White Hair”
Diary
“Creve Coeur I”
Coming October
Poetry
“Hunger,” “Red Bath,” It Is Not a Bridge,” “The Hart”
Diary
“Creve Coeur II”
Diary
“Creve Coeur III”
Fiction
“The Depressed Baby”
Poetry
“Hither,” “Submission”
Diary
“Creve Coeur IV”
Conversations
W.S. Di Piero Interviewed by David Biespiel
Poetry
“Nat Turner’s Dream,” “The Morning Sky,” “More Words,” “On Television”
Eye of the Beholder
“Normporn”
Poetry
“LOVE THE FLICKER,” “MOTHERS”
Coming November
Essays/Nonfiction
“Last Day”
Poetry
“So You Want to Travel the World”
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