Issue 8: Summer/Fall 2023

Editor’s Note: “Hurriquake” by David L. Ulin

ESSAYS/NONFICTION

“Community Is My Poetics: The Chowdhury Prize Acceptance Speech” by Victoria Chang

“Vanguard Mail Operations” by Kristen Gallagher

“In Praise of White Hair” by Catherine Texier

“Last Day” by Jacqueline Herron

FICTION

“Fluxus on Pulver” by Pearl Abraham

“The Depressed Baby” by Elizabeth Crane

POETRY

“Falling Blue, 1963,” “Untitled #10, 1990,” “Grey Stone II, 1961” by Victoria Chang

“Dummy Ventriloquist” by Michelle Bitting

“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

“Morning Without School” by Caitlin Thomson

“Racket on the Petals,” “Hedge Man,” “Vanishing Point Canto,” “Freddie Mercury in Paradiso,” “Jeanne Lee, Conspiracy” by Diane Mehta

“Nat Turner’s Dream,” “The Morning Sky,” “More Words,” “On Television” by W.S. Di Piero

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

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

“So You Want to Travel the World” by Sandy Smith

“LOVE THE FLICKER,” “imperfectly liquid animal” by Kirsten (Kai) Ihns

“Hither,” “Submission” by Jessica Goodfellow

“Fallen,” “Mirror and Table” by Brian Kim Stefans

CONVERSATIONS

“Attuning Yourself to Yourself: A Conversation with Victoria Chang” by Matthew Zapruder

W.S. Di Piero Interviewed by David Biespiel

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

“Normporn” by Karen Tongson

DIARY

“Creve Coeur” by Robert Fitterman