Table of Contents

“From the Editor: Ring Out The Old, Ring In The New” by David L. Ulin

ESSAYS/NONFICTION

“Skilled Black Hands” by fahima ife

“This Story Will Change” by Elizabeth Crane

“How to Land” by Gina Frangello

FICTION

“The Dick, Casillas” by Dagoberto Gilb

“Teaching My Mother How to Drive” by K-Ming Chang

 “Lit” by Alex Espinoza

“Dear Cher” by Kathleen Gibbons

“Honey and Ashes” by Jim Lewis

“Rapini” by Tara Ison

POETRY

“January Garden” by Dana Levin

“I Live in a Large Week to Week Hotel” by Romus Simpson

“Toward a Theory of Perception,” “The First Writer in My Family” by Andrew Navarro

“Always Have a Story,” “Field Notes,” “High Drama,” “Chinatown Romeo” by Michael Chang

“Receive,” “A New Book on Fever” by Emily Vizzo

“Prince Edward Island,” “Newfoundland” by Joshua Mensch

“The Rings of Saturn,” “The Old Faith,” “A Man in the Mirror” by David Biespiel

MULTIMEDIA

“ELADATL” by Sesshu Foster

“Clam Backwards” by Kristen Gallagher and Tara Nelson

ART

“Snacks” by Sophia Le Fraga

DEPARTMENTS 

COLLABORATIONS

“Reach” by Jonathan Leal and Michiko Theurer

DIARY

“Digging to Wonderland” by David Trinidad

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

“Step on a Crack” by Amy Wallen

“A Martian Named Smith” by Mark Haskell Smith

“Hunting the Brown Buffalo” by Jorge C. Aguiñiga

RESPONSES

“A Visit from My Mother” by Lydia Kiesling

“Hitched” by Nancy Lord