Subtropics Issue 28/29 Cover
Issue 28/29: spring/summer 2020

Fiction

  • E. O. NessunaThe Meniscus Stone
  • Kosiso UgwuezeMr. and Mrs. Mad Person
  • Dmitry Glukhovsky (translated by Marian Schwartz) – Oppenheimer
  • Joanna PearsonAmo, Amas, Amat
  • Patricia BindertFruits & Gifts
  • Charlie SterchiRescues
  • Wynne HungerfordSacred Window Exhale
  • Kenneth CalhounWeeper
  • Magdalen PowersThe Burning Girl
  • Mark Jude PoirierThis is Not How Good People Die
  • Charlie SterchiFTHR

Poetry

  • Paul MuldoonThe Vikings
  • Sinéad MorrisseyParable
  • Stephen YenserLast Judgment in New York 1961
  • Jake CristTalent, The Old Coaches, Stopping by Rural Decay after Last Call, Advent Quartet for Paul Celan
  • Shuzo Takiguchi (translated by Mary Jo Bang and Yuki Tanaka) – Fairy’s Distance
  • Anna Lena Phillips BellEach Leaf
  • Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Susan McLean) – Progress (Fortscritt), Gravestone of a Young Girl (Grabmal Eines Junge Mädchens), Parting (Abschied), In the Drawing Room (Im Saal)
  • Richard PrinsPantoum by Aimé Césaire
  • Ian PopleSecretariat, The Railway Children, In Consequence
  • Laurence O’DwyerThe Girl with the Shovel, Counter-tiller
  • Jehanne DubrowNaval Reserve Officer Training Corps
  • Natalie ShaperoSay it to My Face
  • Fady JoudahTaurus
  • Scott BaileyBlue Moon
  • Margarita RosaCrimson Collared
  • Parker Hobson[Theme Music Playing], Superterranean, Home Sick, Excused Absence, Specific Gravity
  • Cary MarcousAt the All-Girls Dorm, Coming to Almost
  • Matt MortonRare Snow in Rome
  • Marie McGrathCunt the Stars

Essays

  • Vix GutierrezDark Sky City
  • Chloe LaneFive Swimming Pools in Gainesville, Florida: Reviewed