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Issue 28/29: spring/summer 2020

Fiction

  • E. O. Nessuna – The Meniscus Stone
  • Kosiso Ugwueze – Mr. and Mrs. Mad Person
  • Dmitry Glukhovsky (translated by Marian Schwartz) – Oppenheimer
  • Joanna Pearson – Amo, Amas, Amat
  • Patricia Bindert – Fruits & Gifts
  • Charlie Sterchi – Rescues
  • Wynne Hungerford – Sacred Window Exhale
  • Kenneth Calhoun – Weeper
  • Magdalen Powers – The Burning Girl
  • Mark Jude Poirier – This is Not How Good People Die
  • Charlie Sterchi – FTHR

Poetry

  • Paul Muldoon – The Vikings
  • Sinéad Morrissey – Parable
  • Stephen Yenser – Last Judgment in New York 1961
  • Jake Crist – Talent, 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 Bell – Each 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 Prins – Pantoum by Aimé Césaire
  • Ian Pople – Secretariat, The Railway Children, In Consequence
  • Laurence O’Dwyer – The Girl with the Shovel, Counter-tiller
  • Jehanne Dubrow – Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps
  • Natalie Shapero – Say it to My Face
  • Fady Joudah – Taurus
  • Scott Bailey – Blue Moon
  • Margarita Rosa – Crimson Collared
  • Parker Hobson – [Theme Music Playing], Superterranean, Home Sick, Excused Absence, Specific Gravity
  • Cary Marcous – At the All-Girls Dorm, Coming to Almost
  • Matt Morton – Rare Snow in Rome
  • Marie McGrath – Cunt the Stars

Essays

  • Vix Gutierrez – Dark Sky City
  • Chloe Lane – Five Swimming Pools in Gainesville, Florida: Reviewed