Issue Ninety-Eight

August 2018                                            

 

FICTION

Diorama 1871 (acreage on fire)
Diorama 1871 (prelude)
Diorama 1871 (snowy cabin, plate of meat)
Catie Rosemurgy 

The Boy in the Animal Enclosure
Nicholas Bredie 

10 Dad Stories
Steven Markow 

Molly's Boyfriend
Travis Price 

A Red Winter Shadow
Caitlin Vance 

Anchorage
Justin Brouckaert 

POETRY

Introduction from Guest Poetry Editor Safia Elhillo

soap
Bondage
3 Landays
Fatimah Asghar

A Brief History of the Suburbs
Giving Dap
"I Ain't Mean to Scare You, Lil' Nigga"
Cortney Lamar Charleston

The Gun
Kaveh Akbar

What Do You Day Dream When You're at Work or When You're in a Crowd
Camonghne Felix 

How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This
It Occurs to Me I Am Loved Most for the Things I Refuse
Hanif Abdurraqib 

NONFICTION

The Tree. The Ash. The Ocean.
Maya Sonenberg

BOOK REVIEWS 

Lemur by Andra Rotaru
reviewed by Olivia Cronk

Rail by Kai Carlson-Wee
reviewed by David Nilsen

Thin Rising Vapors by Seth Rogoff
reviewed by Jacob M. Appel 

Locked Gray/Linked Blue by Kem Joy Ukwu
reviewed by Stewart Lindh 

I Am Not Famous Anymore by Erin Dorney
reviewed by Jessica Hudgins

The Color She Gave Gravity by Stephanie Heit
reviewed by Ally Day 

 

 

 

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