Table of Contents
Editor’s Note: “My Father’s Pen” by David L. Ulin
ESSAYS/NONFICTION
“Notes on Sleaze” by Daniel Torday
“Alias Intrepid” by Melissa Haley
“That LA Bug” by Louise Steinman
FICTION
“God’s Big Mouth” by Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
“Mandy at the End of the World” by Jose Padua
“Pearl” by Tara Ison
“Big Plans” by Shayne Langford
POETRY
“Gal,” “Say What,” Communion” by Adele Elise Williams
“Driven Nail Cure” by Emma Aylor
“Elegy with Two Trees,” “On Eschatology,” “Lines for the Winter Solstice,” “Lines for the New Year (1)” by Christopher Merrill
“Cold Water,” “Forbidden Peak,” “After the Funeral,” “The Farmhouse” by E.J. Koh
“sometimes, the night,” “No Elegy for the Magic,” “Now That I Know What I Had, I Know,” “Sestina for Suzanne Lummis, Empress of Noir” by Lynne Thompson
“Homo Americanus,” “The Charm and the Dread,” “Betimes” by Rodrigo Toscano
“My Father Wes a Firm Believer,” “Listening Wind” by Jim Natal
CONVERSATIONS
Stenio Gardel Interviewed by David Martinez
Natasha Trethewey Interviewed by Danzy Senna
PORTFOLIO
“Give Me Shelter” by Wendy Murray
MULTIMEDIA
“7-10-22” by Anne Germanacos
DIARY
“On Being and On Being the Right Size” by Rob Bowman