Issue 4: Fall 2021

Editor’s Note: “Air/Light Turns One” by David L. Ulin

ESSAYS/NONFICTION

“This Frantic Bounty” by Chris Daley

“Prickly Love” by liz gonzalez

“A Still Life” by Eva Recinos

FICTION

“Wednesday” by Désirée Zamorano

“The Fish Dish” by Kathrin Schmidt, translated by Sue Vickerman

“Everyone Was Singing ‘Freiheit’” by Lisa Alvarez

“The Concrete Slides of Northern California” by Gayle Brandeis

POETRY

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

“Another Life” by Jose Hernandez Diaz

“Tempelhof,” “Berlin” by Rachel Mannheimer

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

“Self-Portrait in the Dark,” Meditation on Communication,” “Meditation on Revision,” “Meditation on Transmutation” by Dean Rader, with images by Cy Twombly

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

“39,” “God of War in the Coin Laundry,” “How to Disappear” by Michelle Franke

“Smoothing Stone” by Robert Krut

“Orbit,” “Becoming Unbecoming” by Leah Umansky

CONVERSATIONS

Karen Tei Yamashita Interviewed by Melissa Chadburn

THE NEIGHBORHOODS PROJECT

“The Neighborhoods Project: Gardena” by Naomi Hirahara and Edwin Ushiro

MULTIMEDIA

“A Meditation on Risk” by Brian Bouldrey, with Will Sonheim

PORTFOLIO

“They Are Their Own” a Portfolio by Amina Cruz

“Slow Burn: On Amina Cruz’s Photography” by Raquel Gutiérrez

DEPARTMENTS

COLLABORATION

“M’boitata” by Karen Tei Yamashita and Ronaldo Oliviera, translated into the Portuguese by Ana Maria Seara

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

“How to Build an Artist” by Jackie Des Forges

RESPONSES

“A Complicated Grief” by S. Kirk Walsh