Issue 52
Translations
Alexandra K*, “Things Virgin Mary Thinks While Smoking in the Bathroom,” translated by Hannah Kent
Antonio Ungar, “from Eva and the Beasts,” translated by Hannah Kauders
Lena Andersson, “Matilda,” translated by Sarah Death
Marko Tomas, “A Pointless Poem,” “How the Morning Starts” & “Imitation,” translated by Rachael Daum
Adélia Prado, “Abduction,” “Citrine Earrings,” Anything That Shines,” “The Father” & “Sewing Room,” translated by Ellen Doré Watson
Gustavo Osorio de Ita, “Because of Living,” translated by Arthur Sze
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, “Rain Song,” translated by Sam Reichman
Rumi, “Ghazal 1393” translated by Homa Mojadidi
Kim Simonsen, four poems translated by Randi Ward
Interviews
Interview with Aishwarya Mishra by Jonathan Safran Foer
Interview with Leslie Jameson by Katie Rothstein
Craft
Bruna Dantas Lobato, “Horizon Stretchers: Translating Style in The Words That Remain”
Fiction
Julia Brennan, “Slab of Earth”
Julian Castronovo, “A Simple Gift”
Adam Dalva, “Trick Book”
Livvy Jean, “The Unit Circle”
Denise S. Robbins, “Sevilla, Seville”
Allie Mariano, “Speaking in Tongues”
Camilla Grudova, “Our Cousin Henry”
Joseph Paul Alvarado, “The Tenderness”
Meg Elison, “Free Art”
Macky Cruz, “Metro Tarak Organ Scouts”
Sanjena Sathian, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Reality”
Aishwarya Mishra, “Kalpavriksha”
Nonfiction
Jack Skelley, “Gig”
Alexandra Middleton, “Big Sky”
Liza Minno, “Unspeakable Home and the Settler Uncanny”
Billie Pritchett, “The Cost of Living”
Poetry
Ellie Black, “Sodom, Styx, Gomorrah, Mississippi” & “Be Not Afraid”
Kai Carlson-Wee, “Spider Gap” & “House”
Chia-Lun Chang, “Memory Is Fiction” & “Last sound”
Lara Egger, “Crash Test Dummy”
Nilufar Karmini, “Dystopia in Which My Neighbor Wants to Play Turmoil”
Patty Nash, “December 16”
Cynthia Dewi Oka, “Imagining My Mother Imagining Me” & “The Heart Is Also a Lion’s Mouth”
Sanam Sheriff, “Soul” & “Aim”
Timmy Straw, “Method of ascent”
Jake Bauer, “Heroes”
Jamie Thomson, “Four Sonnets”
Philipe AbiYouness, “Deliverances”
Myronn Hardy, “Without” & “Lalibela”
Nen G Ramirez, “Golden Shovel for My Mother”
Rennie Ament, “The Natural World”
Jimin Seo, “Autobiography”
Aaron Fagan, “Values of the Past”