Issue 8: Summer/Fall 2023

From the Editor

Essays/Nonfiction

Last Day

by Jacqueline Herron

So You Want to Travel the World

by Sandra Smith

Eye of the Beholder

Intermezzo

by Karen Tongson

“LOVE THE FLICKER,” “MOTHERS”

by Kirsten (Kai) Ihns

Pursuit Is Everything: A Conversation with W. S. Di Piero

by David Biespiel

“Nat Turner’s Dream,” “The Morning Sky,” “More Words,” and “On Television”

by W.S. Di Piero

“Hither,” “Submission”

by Jessica Goodfellow

Creve Coeur, Part 4

by Robert Fitterman

The Depressed Baby

by Elizabeth Crane

Creve Coeur, Part 3

by Robert Fitterman

“Hunger,” “Red Bath,” It Is Not a Bridge,” “The Hart”

by Sarah Maclay

Creve Coeur, Part 2

by Robert Fitterman

Essays/Nonfiction

In Praise of White Hair

by Catherine Texier

Creve Coeur, Part 1

by Robert Fitterman

“Apostrophe,” “Lottery (I’ll never know)”

by Kristin Robertson

“Fallen,” “Mirror and Table”

by Brian Kim Stefans

“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

Morning Without School

by Caitlin Thomson

“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

Dummy Ventriloquist

by Michelle Bitting

Fluxus on Pulver

by Pearl Abraham

Attuning Yourself to Yourself: A Conversation with Victoria Chang

by Matthew Zapruder

“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

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.