Volume XLIII, No. 2

Art by Sheila Squillante featuring a black bridge and MAR's letters in yellow
Art by Sheila Squillante

Fiction

Michael Garcia Bertrand, “The Fall of Virgilio”
Jonathan Johnson, “Chorus of the Cold Weather Body Farm”
Ryan Habermeyer, “Gutwise”
Mason Koa, “Dominion”
Jane Camoleze, “Lady Pig”
RJ Steele, “An Incident Requiring the Intervention of Verakov Capital Private Wealth Investment Firm’s Human Resources Department”

Poetry

Philip Pardi, “Only the Living Are Bewildered”
Clayton Adam Clark, “Before Me Is Always Fled”
Maya Jewell Zeller, “Hex as Fairy Tale”
Cora Clark, Two Poems
Cara Dees, Two Poems
Gabrielle Grace Hogan, Two Poems
Jason Fraley, Two Poems
Kristina Faust, Two Poems
Charity Ketz, Two Poems
JoAnne Tillemans, “Pheasants”
Sonja Vitow, “Sevenling (re: Mutualism)”
Kimberly Cloutier Green, Two Poems
Marjorie Saiser, “Jake Showed Up at His Sister’s Place”
Caleb Scott, “Beetle Song”
Ruth Dickey, “[I feel green space]”

Translation Chapbook

Juan Armando Rojas Joo, The Path That Carries Our Names
Translated from the Spanish and Introduced by Paula J. Lambert

What We’re Reading

Smothermoss by Alissa Alering, Reviewed by Matthew J. Kreglow
The Mirror of Simple Souls by Leah Flax Barber, Reviewed by Nathan Fako
Twist: Tales of a Queer Girlhood by Adele Bertei, Reviewed by Melayna Pongratz
Cheap Motels of My Youth by George Bilgere, Reviewed by Garret Miller
Leaving Biddle City by Marianne Chan, Reviewed by Nathan Fako
The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies by Maggie Cooper, Reviewed by Hannah Goss
Arrangement by Merridawn Duckler, Reviewed by Meg Spring
Where Babies Come From by Ori Fienberg, Reviewed by Mary Robles
Don’t Do It—We Love You, My Heart by Jonathan Fink, Reviewed by Jaden Gootjes
You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems by Rebecca Foust, Reviewed by Garret Miller
The Spring Before Obergefell by Ben Grossberg, Reviewed by Liz Barnett
Disapparitions by Joseph Harrington, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson
Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief by B.J. Hollars, Reviewed by Serenity Dieufaite
True Believer by Jeff Kass, Reviewed by Michelle Altstaetter
French Girl by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Reviewed by Amanda McGuire Rzicznek
The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That by Nick Lantz, Reviewed by Elly Luisa Salah
Ninetails: Nine Tales by Sally Wen Mao, Reviewed by Sydney Koeplin
Break Self: Feed by Gabrielle Myers, Reviewed by Anna Vaughn
Bingo Bango Boingo by Alan Michael Parker, Reviewed by Hannah Goss
Camera Lake by Alex Pickett, Reviewed by Liz Barnett
Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek, Reviewed by Jane Wageman
Kin: Practically True Stories by V Efua Prince, Reviewed by Carolyn Hogg
Good Dress by Brittney Rogers, Reviewed by Elly Luisa Salah
Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou, Reviewed by Sydney Koeplin
Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation by Sarah Yahm, Reviewed by Serenity Dieufaite

Volume XLIII, No. 1

MAR 43.1 cover, art by Sheila Squillante
Art by Sheila Squillante

Poetry

Mary Cisper, “Light”
Wendy Drexler, “Notes from Bar Harbor”
Robert Grunst, “Two Andalusian Dogs”
Ayesha Asad, “Second-Generation”
Molly Sutton Kiefer, “The Arrival of a New Glacial Period”
Janée J. Baugher, “Andrew Wyeth’s Footnotes to Baby Owl, 1944″
Alison Thumel, “Orchard”
Blaine Prescott, “Arc”
Teja Sudhakar, “on forgiving”
Cat S. Chen, “Red”
Elisa Karbin, “Nostrum Remedium”
Kate Genevieve, Two Poems

Fiction

Eric Scot Tryon, “When California Finally Breaks Off into the Pacific”
Cameron Vanderwerf, “Municipalities: Three Works”
Brianna Barnes, “The Unbearable”
Alex Capdeville, “Piggies”

Creative Nonfiction

Nicholas Dighiera, “The Book of Love”

Translation Chapbook

Dostena Anguelova, The Emptiness Where Everything Is Born
Translated from the Bulgarian and Introduced by Holly Karapetkova

The 2024 AWP Intro Journals Awards

Em Bober, “Messenger from the Sea God’s Palace”
Natalia Martinez, “El Luchador”

What We’re Reading

Midwestern Poet’s Incomplete Guide to Symbolism by Erica Anderson-Senter, Reviewed by Elly Luisa Salah
Cross-Stitch by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney, Reviewed by Jane Wageman
Skies of Blur by Elijah Burrell, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson
I’m Here: Alaska Stories by David Nikki Crouse, Reviewed by Haley Souders
Enough to Lose by RS Deeren, Reviewed by Ellie Timmins
Bad Mexican, Bad American by Jose Hernandez Diaz, Reviewed by Tyler Michael Jacobs
Dirty Suburbia by Sarah Hosey, Reviewed by Debrah Miszak
In the Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds by Anna Leigh Knowles, Reviewed by Meagan Chandler
The End of Everything and Everything That Comes After That by Nick Lantz, Reviewed by Ahmad Bilal
America Fantastica by Tim O’Brien, Reviewed by William Walton
The Ill-Fitting Skin by Shannon Robinson, Reviewed by Sarah Urbank
Intimacies in Borrowed Light by Darius Stewart, Reviewed by Muhammad Sheeraz Dasti
Lossless by Matthew Tierney, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson
The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi, Reviewed by Aishat Babatunde
Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales by Hannah Warren, Reviewed by Mary Robles


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