Cover Art by Arghavan Khosravi
INSIDE ISSUE EIGHT (SPRING 2020)
POETRY
Michael Mark
He Asks Me Questions I Can’t Answer
Juan Lamillar
trans. by Don Bogen
Three Poems
—Everyday Objects
— Names for Time
—The Presence of Death
Oriette D’Angelo
trans. by Lupita Eyde-Tucker
Knee on Dirt
Nadia Anjuman
trans. by Diana Arterian & Marina Omar
One Small Kindness
Krystyna Dąbrowska
trans. by Mira Rosenthal
Three Poems
— White Plastic Chairs
— Wall
—First-Floor Windows
Austin Allen
Current Event
Mary Ann Samyn
Three Poems
—Came and Went
—Poem with a Dolphin in It
—Times I Talked to Him About the Weather
Rainer Maria Rilke
trans. by Alfred Corn
The Fifth Elegy
Corrado Govoni
trans. by Paula Bohince
Shipwreck
Claudia Lars
trans. by Philip Pardi
Two Poems
—My Refuge
—Thinking of the Great Dream
Sidney Wade
Fata Morgana
Miguel Murphy
Cy Twombly
Geri Doran
Two Poems
—The Republic of Sleep
—The Clary Mist
Leonora Simonovis
Two Poems
—A Man Held a Gun to My Stomach Once
—Conversation Between Former Revolutionaries
Emma Bolden
Psalm of the Unclean
Garous Abdolmalekian
trans. by Ahmad Nadalizadeh & Idra Novey
Four Poems
—Border
—Pattern
—Poem for Stillness
—On Power Lines
Nan Cohen
Two Poems
—Strand
—Loss
Marlin M. Jenkins
—Pokédex Entry #468: Togekiss
Ana Luísa Amaral
trans. by Margaret Jull Costa
Two Poems
—The Breath
—Symptoms and Syndromes
Sam Stokley
Lizard Boy in Love
Angie Macri
Sandtown Road
Claudiu Komartin
trans. by Diana Manole
Two Poems
—Twelve Lines to Drive Fear Away, Twelve Seconds to the Light’s Disappearance
—Getting Ready for the Centennial of the October Revolution
FICTION
Shih-Li Kow
Mary Anne
Naja Marie Aidt
trans. by Denise Newman
The Cat
Mary Ruefle
Three Stories
—The Translator
—Love Story
—The Stagehand
Molly Gaudry
The Story Cleaner
Carlo Paulo Pacolor
trans. by Soleil Davíd
The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Cockroach
Asha Thanki
Somewhere in Bombay, a Fog Descends
Emerging Writers Prize Winner
Douglas W. Milliken
Sister of Dog Fear
NONFICTION
Taylor Brorby
On Shame
