ISSUES | spring 2021
44.1 (Spring 2021): “What You Live For”
Inside: 2020 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize Winners, a conversation with Camille T. Dungy, Kate McIntyre on the progeny of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, arts features about punk’s influence on contemporary art and the Great British Teddy Girls. Fiction from Mona Susan Power, Gail Upchurch, Jesse Lee Brooks, an essay by Sage Marshall, and poetry from Brandi Nicole Martin and Jane Satterfield, and even more.
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Foreword
Jun 02 2021
Foreword: What You Live For
What You Live For One would like to think the pandemic has inspired us to be more productively introverted, weighing what we are doing and why. But of course, the… read more
Editors' Prize Winner
Jun 02 2021
Keeping
Keeping Thomas Dodson It was a humbling thing, asking for help like this, needing it so badly. But removing his hat, brushing flakes of snow from brim and crown, Guy… read more
Editor's Prize Winner
Jun 02 2021
Poems: Chelsea B. DesAutels
Maybe You Need to Write a Poem About Mercy after Robert Hass Start this one with the woman standing at the edge of the woods. Or the desert, it… read more
Editors' Prize Winner
Jun 02 2021
Opera House
Opera House By Robert Stothart Everything seemed married to everything else. —Gustave Baumann, printmaker, Santa Fe Overture A mere 7,918 miles in diameter, Earth, our home together, travels a minuscule… read more
Interviews
Jun 02 2021
A Conversation with Camille T. Dungy
A Conversation with Camille T. Dungy Jacob Griffin Hall Camille T. Dungy is a poet, essayist, professor, and editor based in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is the author of four… read more
Fiction
Jun 02 2021
Naming Ceremony
Naming Ceremony Mona Susan Power It’s the spring of 1968 here in Chicago, and Mama says Old Mayor Daley has his big fists wrapped around our necks. She says he… read more
Poetry
Jun 02 2021
Poems: Brandi Nicole Martin
No Market for Unfixable Suffering So I watercolor my skin graft and thereby beautify its hue, reframe so I was never “crushed under” or “burned by car muffler” but… read more
Fiction
Jun 02 2021
The Burning
The Burning Gail Upchurch The burning comes right after and all at once. The irony of calling out for a God you swore off back in high school—the day Shawn… read more
Fiction
Jun 02 2021
As Far as You Can See
As Far as You Can See Jesse Lee Brooks What was funny was that despite being a self-proclaimed visionary, a seer of fortune, an intuitivist at cards, Sam never could… read more
Poetry
Jun 02 2021
Poems: Jane Satterfield
Costumery: Cento with Lines from Early Reviews of Wuthering Heights Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë posed as Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell to publish their work and be taken seriously… read more
Reviews
Jun 02 2021
Review: May I Be Frank? Further Hideous Progeny of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
May I Be Frank? Further Hideous Progeny of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Kate McIntyre Frankenstein in Bagdad by Ahmed Saadawi, Jonathan Wright trans. Penguin Books, 2018, 281 pp., $16 (paper). Frankissstein… read more
Curio Cabinet
Jun 02 2021
The Great British Teddy Girls: Ken Russell’s Forgotten Photographs
The Great British Teddy Girls: Ken Russell’s Forgotten Photographs When the Second World War ended in 1945 after six years of conflict, it quickly became evident that Britain had paid… read more
Art
Jun 02 2021
Clash: Punk’s Influence on Contemporary Art
Clash: Punk’s Influence on Contemporary Art Kristine Somerville Punk rock isn’t something you grow out of. Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is “give us… read more
Nonfiction
Jun 02 2021
The Valley of Boys
The Valley of Boys Sage Marshall Boys, boys, a valley of boys. We lived in a small town. The snow rose in silent blankets outside the classroom window. It came… read more