Issue 49: Spring 2020

Fiction

Vanishing Point

For the first two weeks of kindergarten, Reagan tells her classmates she has sticky venom palms and two invisible eye stalks sprouting from the top of her head because she is a goblin princess.

Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden

I answered an ad for a summer housesitting job and drove two hours into the hills to get there.

Memories of the Drowned Whale

Mama is dead. She died peacefully in her bed as I lay numb by her side.
Poetry

tankas for a buried town

i. wounds of lost train tracks / burnt into indifferent green –

burrow

Behold This Heap

Two Poems

stockholm

Essays

PHANTOM FLOWER

On Saturday in Prospect Heights I saw a girl slapping flowers. With every slap, she said: Flower.

Modern Fables

I've not known Noah long when I ask if he’s ever killed an animal.
Interviews

Destruction and Renewal: An Interview with Conyer Clayton

Conyer Clayton’s debut full-length poetry collection, We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite, employs dream logic and seemingly disparate images to explore loss and addiction.

Of Re-writing, Reclamation, and Unredacting: An Interview with Sue Goyette

I was living in Toronto when I read my first book by Halifax poet Sue Goyette.

A Conversation Between Kim Davids Mandar and Jeremy Luke Hill

They invoke the process of filtering one iteration of art into another, forming a kind of a reflection on artistic interpretation that echoes with cultural appropriation as a theme.
Reviews

A Floorplan of the Self: Memory and Body in John Elizabeth Stintzi’s Vanishing Monuments

In the last act of John Elizabeth Stintzi’s Vanishing Monuments, the protagonist, Alani Baum, recalls a photograph their mother, Hedwig, took of them as a child, a picture of them digging holes in the backyard.

Hungry, breathing: a review of Noor Naga’s Washes, Prays

Again and again in my life, teachers have tried to explain how a poem separates from prose.