Month: June 2017

Untangling This Question of “How Do I Go On?”: An Interview with Selena Anderson

By Bridget Dooley
photo credit: Jai-Lee Egna

Bridget Dooley (BD): Your story in the Winter 2016 issue, “Wig Violence,” caught my attention because of the potency of your protagonist, Eudoxie, and her role as a catalyst within the narrative’s metaphysical framework. Rather than existing at the mercy …

Bridget Dooley

Bridget Dooley

Bridget Dooley is a PhD student in creative writing and literature at the University of Georgia and a graduate of Western Michigan University’s MFA in fiction. Her writing has appeared in Word Riot, Apt, The Electronic Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature, Goddessmode: a collection of video game writing by women and nonbinary artists, and is forthcoming from Cream City Review and The Atlas Review. You can find her work at bgd.neocities.org

on Landscape with Headless Mama by Jennifer Givhan

By Mary-Kim Arnold
From the Summer 2017 Issue
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Mary-Kim Arnold is the author of Litany for the Long Moment (Essay Press, 2018) and the forthcoming The Fish & The Dove (Noemi Press, 2020). Awarded fellowships from the Rhode Island Foundation and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, she holds an MFA from Brown University and now teaches there in the Nonfiction Writing Program.

on Spells for Victory and Courage by Dana Fitz Gale

By Jeff Gundy
From the Summer 2017 Issue
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Jeff Gundy’s eighth book of poems, Without a Plea, was published in early 2019 by Bottom Dog Press. Recent poems and essays are in Cincinnati Review, River Teeth, Forklift, Ohio, Terrain, and Christian Century. He is at work on a series of lyric essays about the Illinois prairie with the working title “Wind Farm.”

 

Songs of Our Nonselves

By Heidi Lynn Staples
From the Summer 2017 Issue

According to the American Academy of Microbiology, the human body contains about three times more bacterial cells than human cells—to say nothing of viruses, fungi, or other protozoa. These invisible beings are not neutral inhabitants. Rather, they mold our moods, …

Heidi Lynn Staples is the author of A**A*A*A, forthcoming from Ahsahta Press, and co-editor of Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change, slated to appear from BlazeVox Press. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Alabama.

The Wake of Negative Space: Narrating Loss in Two Recent Novellas

By Lindsey Drager
From the Summer 2017 Issue

In The Writing of the Disaster (1986), Maurice Blanchot argues that narrating disaster—global, national, local, or personal—is an impossible task because it cannot be articulated or explained. Writing about disaster, Blanchot argues, is at “the limit of writing” because it …

Lindsey Drager is the author of the novels The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017) and The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015). She is an assistant professor at the College of Charleston, where she teaches in the MFA program in fiction.

Smuggling the Sun

By Eamon Ore-Giron
From the Summer 2017 Issue

For the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Los Angeles–based artist Rafa Esparza transported over three thousand handmade adobe bricks from LA to New York, and with a group of individuals he described as “Brown” built a rotunda inside the museum, obscuring the …

Eamon Ore-Giron (b. 1973) received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. He has exhibited in venues including the Deitch Projects in New York, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, and the SFMOMA in San Francisco.

Against Summer

By Andrea Hollander
From the Summer 2017 Issue
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Andrea Hollander’s first published poem appeared in the Winter 1982 issue of The Georgia Review. Her first full-length poetry collection won the 1993 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize; her fourth was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her many other honors include two Pushcart Prizes (in poetry and creative nonfiction) and two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. After living in the woods of the Arkansas Ozarks for thirty-five years, she moved to downtown Portland, Oregon, in 2011.

Écorché with Terminal Ballistics

By Gabriella R. Tallmadge
From the Summer 2017 Issue
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Gabriella R. Tallmadge is an alumna of the Hedgebrook Writers in Residence program. Her poetry has received a Transitional Artist Residency Award from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts as well as a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Passages North, Indiana Review, Crazyhorse, Best New Poets, and other journals.

The White Poet Wants to Know Why I Don’t Write More Arab Poems

By Leila Chatti
From the Summer 2017 Issue

 

Because, while a war blooms at the margins

of the other country that claims me, still

 

I am here with my ordinary grief and its language.

 

Because every time I open my mouth

I am an Arab

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Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Writing and Publishing at Cleveland State University. She is the author of the chapbooks Ebb (New-Generation African Poets Series, Akashic Books) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya, the 2017 Editor’s Selection from Bull City Press. Individually, her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, the American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

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