Issue 4: Fall 2021

From the Editor

Poetry

“Tempelhof” and “Berlin”

by Rachel Mannheimer

Fiction

The Fish Dish

by Kathrin Schmidt, Sue Vickerman

Poetry

Another Life

by Jose Hernandez Diaz

Fiction

Wednesday

by Désirée Zamorano

Eye of the Beholder

How to Build an Artist

by Jackie DesForges

Multimedia

A Meditation on Risk

by Brian Bouldrey, Will Sonheim

Poetry

“Memorial Day in the Post-Apocalyptic Sculpture Garden,” “The Blinding Noise of the Day,” “You Were Running Through My Thoughts”

by Gail Wronsky

Coming October

Essays/Nonfiction

This Frantic Bounty

by Chris Daley

Poetry

“For a Person Who May Not Even Exist,” “Just Another Poem”

by Alexis Garcia

Fiction

Everyone Was Singing “Freiheit”

by Lisa Alvarez

Poetry

Poems

by Dean Rader

Coming November

Collaborations

M’boitata

by Karen Tei Yamashita and Ronaldo Oliviera, translated into the Portuguese by Ana Maria Seara

Conversations

Karen Tei Yamashita Interviewed by Melissa Chadburn

by Melissa Chadburn

Poetry

“Du bout de la pensée,” “Andante Emasculata,” “Emasculata con scratchy”

by Aline Stefanescu

Poetry

“39,” “God of War in the Coin Laundry,” “How to Disappear in America”

by Michelle Franke

Poetry

Smoothing Stone

by Robert Krut

Essays/Nonfiction

Prickly Love

by liz gonzalez

Essays/Nonfiction

A Still Life

by Eva Recinos

Neighborhoods Project

The Neighborhoods Project: Gardena

by Naomi Hirahara and Edwin Ushiro

Visual Art

Amina Cruz Portfolio with Commentary by Racquel Gutierrez

by Amina Cruz

Poetry

“Orbit,” “Becoming Unbecoming”

by Leah Umansky

Coming December

Conversations

Zadie Smith Interviewed by Geoff Dyer

by Zadie Smith

Fiction

The Concrete Slides of Northern California

by Gayle Brandeis

Responses

A Complicated Grief

by S. Kirk Walsh

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