Issue 50: Summer 2020

Fiction

My Life with David Biedermann

Ted picked me up after an evening shift in his mother’s white Nissan Cube.

Toofan Mail

This story is taken from Kakini’s upcoming collection, No Presents Please, published by Tilted Axis Press. Translated by Tejaswini Niranjana, it is the winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
Poetry

Loss +

As far as accounting goes it goes Cornflakes. It goes cucumbers and/ cigarettes.

Living

Meteor Shower

Triptych

True Value

healing ritual with river skin

Two Poems

Three Poems

from “Transfer”

Essays

Writing from Ruins: On Scarborough’s Literary Movement

Something is afoot in Scarborough, Ontario. It’s not a mind-numbing news report about urban violence at an unspecified intersection.
Interviews

In Some Stylized Sense, Vulnerability

Dear Terese, When we were invited to chat together I wondered where we might start.

“The wonder and turbulence of this existence”: Letters between Canisia Lubrin and E Martin Nolan

After Canisia Lubrin’s Voodoo Hypothesis, she and I shared a series of letters grappling with poetry, history, and the then-current state of the world.

In Story, In Root, In Access: Disfigured Author Amanda Leduc in Conversation with Kerry Seljak-Byrne

When I opened Disfigured, I landed in a forest.
Reviews

Living, breathing identity: Kaie Kellough’s Magnetic Equator

Kaie Kellough’s Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection, Magnetic Equator, delves into the experience of working through identity in a diaspora.

“someone else’s disaster:” Sachiko Murakami’s Render

The major thoroughfare that services the City of Philadelphia is Interstate 676. Wikipedia tells me it is 6.90 miles long.

Shedding Myth: David Ly’s Mythical Man

Every myth, from cultural storytelling traditions to urban myths and tall tales, is trying to teach us something.