Volume XLII, no. 2
42.2 Table of Contents
Fiction
Colten Dom “The Retch”
Naomi Wood “Dino Moms”
Matthew Fiander “Controlled Burns”
Chad Fore “Small-Town Locals”
Toni Judnitch “Undertow”
Poetry
Christopher Citro “Sugar in the Gourd and the Gourd upon the Ground”
Shivani Mehta “Once, in the desert, I searched for manzanitas”
Jeannine Hall Gailey “Crows Splinter the Rain”
Susannah Lodge-Rigal “Drawing Your Hands from Memory”
Michelle Gomez “How to Navigate a Minefield”
Maryam Ghafoor “Islamic Herbology”
Patrick Dundon “Magnificent UFO”
Andrew Robin “Two Poems”
Ösel Jessica Plante “The Chronicle of Three Sisters”
Indrani Sengupta “Two Poems”
Tennessee Hill “Rabbit Test”
Adam Clay “Self-Portrait as Invasive Species”
Vanesha Pravin “Red-Winged Blackbird”
John McCarthy “Our Once Content Father Possesses Regrets for Planting Marigolds”
Christopher Warner “Two Poems”
Maria Himmelman “The Frogs”
Translation Chapbooks
Salgado Maranhão “The Rain That Sweetens the Name of Things”
Translated from the Portuguese and Introduced by Alexis Levitin
The 2023 AWP Intro Journal Awards
Angela Voras-Hills “Three Days after My Mom Starts Hospice, My Son Can’t Sleep”
Ciara Alfaro “Hair”
What We’re Reading
In The Shape of Things to Come by John Blair, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson
Lifeaholics Anonymous by Neil Carpathios, Reviewed by Lucas Dean Clark
The Devil’s Workshop by Xavier Cavazos, Reviewed by Mary Robles
until all you see is sky by George Choundas, Reviewed by Muhammad Sheeraz Dasti
Cravings by Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Reviewed by Debrah Miszak
The Amnesiac in the Maze by Michael Czyzniejewski, Reviewed by Dan Marcantuono
Green Burial by Derek Graf, Reviewed by Meagan Chandler
One Person Holds So Much Silence by David Greenspan, Reviewed by Elly Salah
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject by Jared Harél, Reviewed by Tyler Michael Jacobs
Homelight by Lola Haskins, Reviewed by Jeff Gundy
Do You Remember Being Born? by Sean Michaels, Reviewed by Jane Wageman
Dry Land by B. Pladek, Reviewed by Haley Souders
Volume XLII, no. 1
42.1 Table of Contents
Poetry
Angie Macri “Bone Town”
Pat Daneman “Riddle”
Lauren Camp “Two Poems”
Carlene Kucharczyk “Two Poems”
H.K Hummel “A Short Lecture on Stuckness”
Kim Welliver “A Diorama of a Widowhood”
Hannah Bradley “Hereditary”
Erika Goodrich “Two Poems”
Sarah Destin “Two Poems”
Chelsea Wagenaar “Recurring Dream”
Marcus Myers “Matrices”
Jeffrey Alfier “Mościska in Late March”
Alyse Knorr “Wolf Tours: Special Full Moon Excursion”
Gabriel Vigh “Archetype”
Henry Goldkamp “Forcemeat”
Adam Scheffler “For I Will Consider This Cockroach Belinda”
Ian Cappelli “The Prisoner Sees a Hornet’s Nest Outside the Bars”
Fiction
Justin Thurman “Some Kinds of Drifter”
Christine Ma-Kellams “The Beauty of Xiaohe”
Gabe Congdon “Terrible Be I”
Alyssa Quinn “Character Sketch for the Oil CEO”
Michael Caleb Tasker “Turn the Night into Day”
Translation Chapbook
Salgado Maranhão “Howls Above the Shipwreck”
Translated from the Portuguese and Introduced by Alexis Levitin
Luís Miguel Nava “Slaughterhouse”
Translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin and Ricardo Vasoncelos
The 2022 AWP Intro Journals Awards
K. Janeschek “I Dream of Dressing Your Altar with Slaughtered Meat”
Laura Dzubay “Will You Please Bring It Back to Me?”
What We’re Reading
Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry, Reviewed by Mays Kuhail
Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates, Reviewed by Tyler Michael Jacobs
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa (Mac) Crane, Reviewed by Gen Greer
Ceive by B.K. Fischer, Reviewed by Christopher McCormick
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller, Reviewed by Caitlyn Mlodzik
still true by Maggie Ginsburg, Reviewed by Caitlyn Mlodzik
Tango Below a Narrow Ceiling by Riad Saleh Hussein, Reviewed by Michael J. Morris
Groundcover by Molly Kugel, Reviewed by Allison Turner
The Distortians by Christopher Linforth, Reviewed by Mays Kuhail
The Red-Headed Pilgrim by Kevin Maloney, Reviewed by Tooba Amin
How We Dissapear by Tara Lynn Masih, Reviewed by Sydney Anderson
Twice-Born World: Stories of Lithuania by Wendall Mayo, Reviewed by George Looney
as mornings and mossgreen I. Step to the window by Friederike Mayröcker, Reviewed by Lucas Dean Clark
Here I Am Burn Me by Kimberly Nguyēn, Reviewed by Christopher McCormick
Two Brown Dots by Danni Quintos, Reviewed by Tyler Michael Jacobs
Field Notes from the Flood Zone by Heather Sellers, Reviewed by Lucas Dean Clark
Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters by Maya Sonenberg, Reviewed by Dan Marcantuono
Buffalo Girl by Jessica Q, Reviewed by Michael J. Morris
Helen House by Kayla Kumari, Reviewed by Gen Greer
Kettle Harbour by Kyle Vingoe-Cram, Reviewed by Sydney Anderson
Girl Country by Jacqueline Vogtman, Reviewed by Dan Marcantuono
Volume XLI, No. 1 &2
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Fiction
Dani Diehl “Daughter”
JoAnna Novak “Two Stories”
Drew Calvin McCutchen “On the Cape of Sleep and Well-Being”
Lara Palmqvist “Suhaila”
Shreya Vikram “Mother”
Poetry
James O’Bannon “Two Poems”
Stephanie Duggar “Three Poems”
Chelsea Dingman “Two Poems”
Catherine Arnold “The Walls Will Be Silenced When She Speaks”
Rebecca Jamieson “In the Time Before Worry”
Talia Bloch “Corners”
Emily Banks “Banana Gun”
Bruce Bond “Two Poems”
Benjamin Landry “Time of Asters”
Erik Wilbur “Relativity; or, the Life of a Housefly Is Shorter Than a Solar Day on the Moon”
Katlyn Tjerrild “Aftershocks”
Sara McNally “Snapshots in Which [ ] Is Everywhere”
Hannah Kroonblawd “Two Poems”
Kate Patridge “Two Poems”
Marci Rae Johnson “Alternatives to the Big Bang Theory, Explained”
Patrick Whitfill “Teleology Vol. 1”
Katie Kehoe “Get Results with Real Start Plus for Free Now”
Michael Meyerhofer “Text Messages Between Wildfires”
Regina DiPerna “Two Poems”
Nick Reading “Two Poems”
Jeff Fearnside “What We Call Home”
Brandon Krieg “Bees of the Invisible”
April Goldman “Two Poems”
Danielle Rose “Two Poems”
Dave Harrity “Elegy : Tide”
Rachel Price “How to Identify Birds”
Emma Aylor “Old Moon”
Emily Paige Wilson “Two Poems”
Danielle Zaccagnino “Two Poems”
Nicole Callihan “Days”
Jaimee Hills “Two Poems”
Emily Hockaday “Downsizing”
Anna Girgenti “Tiresias Learns to Write”
Jessica Cuello “Dear Mother,”
Translation Chapbooks
Aigerim Tazhi “Prayers at Full Volume”
Translated from the Russian and Introduced by J. Kates
Aksinia Mihaylova “The Meaning of Visible Things”
Translated from the French and Introduced by Marissa Davis
Salgado Maranhão “Delirica V”
Translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin
The 2020 Fineline Competition
First Prize:
Rachel Morgan “They Go on Living”
Runner-Up:
John Blair “The Bus”
Finalists:
Caitie Barrett “Psyche”
Leonora Desar “Petiteness”
Cory Oldweiler “Pentimento”
Steven Slamoni “Study in Glass”
Alan Sincic “What I Want from the Old Men”
Kristen Smith “this blueball strand,”
The 2020 AWP Intro Journals Award
Jessica Nirvana Ram “i am unfit to raise daughters”
Matthew Morris “Pardo/Ghost Hand”
The 2021 AWP Intro Journals Award
Ae Hee Lee “Would I Rather Soften”
Danielle Harms “The Blood Kettle”
What We’re Reading
Rare Wondrous Things by Alyse Bensel, Reviewed by Mackenna Finley
48 Blitz by Brett Biebel, Reviewed by Matt Miller
The Calling by Bruce Bond, Reviewed by Leslie Benigni
The Cipher by Molly Brodak, Reviewed by Matthew Sweet
Those Who Keep Arriving by Julie Danho, Reviewed by Samantha Fain
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, Reviewed by Felicia Cameron
Mannequin and Wife by Jen Fawke’s, Reviewed by Brenna Hosman
Tales the Devil Told Me by Jen Fawkes, Reviewed by Chloe McConnell
What If We Were Somewhere Else by Wendy Fox, Reviewed by Kelly Kurtzhals Geiger
Oh You Robot Saints! by Rebecca Morgan, Reviewed by Hannah Yerington
Whale and Vapor by Kim Kyung Ju, Reviewed by Turner Wilson
that’s what you get by Sheila Maldonado, Reviewed by Angelica Esquivel
The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne by Michael Martone, Reviewed by Téa Franco
In the Night Field by Cameron McGill, Reviewed by Samantha Fain
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, Reviewed by Jason Marc Harris
Alien Stories by E. C. Osundu, Reviewed by Kangsen “Yassay” Masango
No Mask, No Talk: Corona Poems 2020-2021 by Eve Packer, Reviewed by Austin Alexis
Alias by Eric Pankey, Reviewed by Turner Wilson
Fjords vol. II by Zachary Schomburg, Reviewed by Samuel Burt
Silverfish by Rone Shavers, Reviewed by Molly Weiland
The History of America in My Lifetime by Brooks Sterritt, Reviewed by Nick Gardner
Caw by Michael Waters, Reviewed by Michael Beard
Semiotic Love [Stories] by Brian Phillip Whalen, Reviewed by Molly Weiland
The Wendys by Allison Benis White, Reviewed by Tim Neil
