Issue 45: Spring 2019

Fiction

I WILL NEVER TELL YOU THIS

Flynn slipped into the Pacific and never got out.

SIGNPOST

The leaves of the magnolia were brown and strewn across the lawn.

Madame Flora’s

Victoria’s menses stopped.
Poetry

The In-Between Water

History draws / its lines through / salt water

Things I’m made of

Two Poems

Truth

JODIE FOSTER

Essays

OF VICES AND REARS or Why I’ve Stopped Reading Jane Austen

I’m sick of rereading Jane Austen.
Interviews

“Solution to Forgetting”: Postcards on Narrative and Poetry

The below correspondence between Ben Ladouceur and Onjana Yawnghwe was conducted via email over the course of April, 2019.

“Horizontally Piled Clouds”: An Interview with Paul Herron of Sky Blue Press

Creating a space for oneself is the bridge between spectral living and automation.

Staying with the Trouble

Two old friends on either side of the 49th parallel consider Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (Book*hug, 2018), edited by Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, and Erin Wunker.
Reviews

Lost Sisters: I Become a Delight to My Enemies

Sara Peters’ I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a clever, genre-blending work that portrays a complex and deeply affective picture of feminism and femininity.