ISSUES | winter 2016
39.4 (Winter 2016): "Upstarts"
Featuring work by Sophie Beck, Christopher Citro, Heather Derr-Smith, Sharon Dolin, K.C. Frederick, Pete Levine, Peter Mountford, Alix Ohlin, Brandon R. Schrand, Amy Day Wilkinson, and the heroic expressions of outsider art.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Feb 07 2017
Poetry Feature: Heather Derr-Smith
“Hazel Run”
“Catherine’s Furnace”
“The Quarry”
“XXX”
“You Got to Pray to the Lord When You See Those Flying Saucers”
Poetry
Feb 07 2017
Poetry Feature: Christopher Citro
“Watching You to See How to React to All This”
“Throwing Pebbles into Perpetual Orbit”
“Sick of Sick”
“Returning Home after the Funeral”
“Where You and I Could Get a Coffee Sit by a Lake and Talk”
“Removing the Butter Dish from the Fridge with a Sense of Urgency”
Nonfiction
Feb 07 2017
Through the Glass Clearly
Like a languorous panther, the martini is both exquisite and dangerous. Its strength is only matched by its glamour. But it is not to be trifled with. Lauded by Bernard… read more
Nonfiction
Feb 07 2017
Pinterest for the Apocalypse
In a service-driven economy, in which many of us find ourselves doing work with little in the way of physical or even visible results, the idea of making a durable,… read more
Fiction
Feb 07 2017
The Tongues of Angels
“Pilarski, Pietrzyk, Szymanski . . .” The names roll on. These third graders about to receive their First Communion, where will they be twenty years from now? The boys will… read more
Fiction
Feb 07 2017
You Have to Continue, You Have to Hurry
The day Freddo got hit by the car, I was standing on the front landing in my basketball shorts smoking a joint while my wife cursed at the phone company… read more
Fiction
Feb 07 2017
Charlevoix
When my old college roommate Steve Girardi called me, I knew it was him before he uttered a word. I could hear his smoker’s wheeze echo through the receiver, and… read more
Fiction
Feb 07 2017
Money, Geography, Youth
Kelsey was standing in the foyer, wearing shorts and a hoodie, one foot overlapping the other, and she gave Vanessa a hug and said, “I guess he told you! I… read more
Foreword
Feb 07 2017
Upstarts
This issue is replete with upstarts and transgressors of varying kinds—characters who have crossed boundaries or altered things or who are trying to do so. The subject reminds me of… read more
Poetry
Feb 07 2017
Poetry Feature: Sharon Dolin
“Excerpts from The Pocket Oracle”
“Don’t be bad by being totally good”
“Believe your heart”
“Understand yourself”
“Don’t enjoy the sound of your own voice”
“Immediately find the good in everything”