Issue 5: Winter/Spring 2022

From the Editor

“I’ve Come to Pee in Your Lake” and “Fly”

by Angelica Whitehorne

Picture of Spring

by Adalena Kavanagh

Matin

by Marisa P. Clark

“Law of the Letter,” “My Wife Falls Asleep to Friends and It Streams All Night,” and “Quabbin Reservoir”

by Elizabeth Galoozis

Christos Ikonomou and Karen Emmerich Interviewed by David L. Ulin

by David L. Ulin

A Dreadful Consolation

by Christos Ikonomou, Karen Emmerich

“Ode to Billy Idol,” “Prayer to St. Anthony, Patron Saint of Lost Things,” “Ode to my 11-Year-Old’s Shadow of a Mustache,” “Gwyneth Paltrow’s P*ssy,” and “They Teased, If you Love Your Dog So Much, Why Don’t You Marry Him?”

by Sonia Greenfield

Struck or Shaken

by Elda María Román

Essays/Nonfiction

Married in a Hurricane, Divorced in a Drought: On a Loss of Nature, and the Nature of Loss

by Erin Ruffin

Essays/Nonfiction

Exile in Desire

by Lynell George

“In the Beginning,” “Containment,” “The Scene,” and “Poem Beginning With a Line by Wayne Koestenbaum”

by Randall Mann

Eye of the Beholder

Pecking Order

by Rishi Reddi

“Unsolicited”

by Debora Kuan

Man of the House

by Laurel Doud

Eye of the Beholder

Our Bodies, Our Grief

by Ashley Perez

Essays/Nonfiction

Last Home

by Debra Monroe

Days of the Dead: Shrines for the American Dream

by Harryette Mullen

Deliverance

by Janet Sarbanes

The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation Distinguished Speakers Series Presents An Evening with Zadie Smith: Zadie Smith Interviewed by Geoff Dyer

by Zadie Smith, Geoff Dyer

“I’m Driving to Fresno (And I don’t care who knows it)”, “Noir Confession—with Evasions”, and “Noir Stanzas: Pieces of Advice, after Viewing…”

by Suzanne Lummis

Child of Immigrants

by Jia-Rui Cook

I Know You’re There

by Paul Tremblay

Air/Light is published quarterly in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California.

The Chowdhury Prize in Literature is an annual international mid-career prize for writers.