{"id":3798,"date":"2022-07-21T20:21:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/?page_id=3798"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:28:26","slug":"volume-xl-no-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/volume-xl-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume XL, No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"40.1<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

40.1 Table of Contents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Fiction<\/strong>
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Anne Guidry, “Disrepair”
Grey Wolfe LaJoie, “Mention of Flesh”
E.J. Morris, “Popsicle Sticks”
Teresa Burns Gunther, “Abundance”
Mariya Poe, “No Milk, Just Beef”
Hazel Foster, “A Permanent State”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Doug Ramspeck, “Two Poems”
Joni Lee, Three Poems
Dan Rosenberg, “If You Carry the Book I Will Carry You”
Danielle Pieratti, “Matins”
Heather Lanier, “Bear Leads Police in Wild Chase…”
Paul Howe, “Lost Infinities”\u00a0
Kwame Dawes, Three Poems
Francine Witte, “First conversations, maybe”
Hannah V. Warren “Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve”
Michele Karas, “Tulip Cuttings”
Meg Stout, “Jonagold, McInstosh, Cortland, &c”
M.A. Scott “Mercy, Recurring”
Monica Joy Fara, “Grassland Psalm”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Nonfiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jenniey Tallman, “Our Belmont”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Max Sessner, At Last with a Small Sigh the Mouth
Translated from the German and Introduced by Francesca Bell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khal Torabully, Sentences Staining the Sea
Translated from the French and Introduced by Nancy Naomi Carlson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2019-2020 Fineline Competition<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

First Prize<\/em>
Diane LeBlanc, “Possum”<\/em>
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Runner Up<\/em>
Richard Garcia, “San Francisco”\u00a0
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Finalists<\/em>
Cherie Hunter Day, “Passerine”
Leonora Desar, “The Jennifers”
Merridawn Duckler, “Parable of the Bone”
Jeff Gundy, “Corn”
Diane LeBlanc, “Suddenly You Are Alone”
Nancy Ludmerer, “Fathers”
Carmen Maldonado, “The Origin of Language”
Molly Reid, “Advice for Eating an Animal”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What We’re Reading<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Extinction Events<\/em> by Liz Breazeale, reviewed by Matt Stewart
Night Angler<\/em> by Geffrey Davis, reviewed by Alison Meijas Santoro
The Boy in the Labyrinth<\/em> by Oliver de la Paz, reviewed by Abigail Cloud
Oceanography<\/em>by Jeremy Griffin, reviewed by Annie Cigic
The Snow Collectors<\/em> by Tina May Hall, reviewed by George Looney
American Grief in Four Stages <\/em>by Sadie Hoagland, reviewed by Kari Hanlin
No Good for Digging<\/em> by Dustin M. Hoffman, reviewed by Alise Miller
Requiem with an Amulet in its Beak<\/em> by Elizabeth Knapp, reviewed by Cassandra Caverhill
All Its Charms <\/em>by Keetje Kuiper, reviewed by Cloe Dree Watson
Ivy vs. Dogg<\/em> by Brian Leung, reviewed by Brenna Hosman
Claiming a Body<\/em> by Amanda Marbais, reviewed by Angela C. Kramer
Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability and Medicine<\/em> edited by Dinty W. Moore, Erin Murphy, and Ren\u00e9e K. Nicholson, reviewed by Aryanna Falkner
The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary<\/em> by Molly Reid, reviewed by Chad Merrell
Tiny Journalist <\/em>by Naomi Shihab Nye, reviewed by Julie Webb
Settlers<\/em> by F. Daniel Rzicznek, reviewed by Michelle Bellman
Threshold Delivery <\/em>by Patty Seyburn, reviewed by Turner Wilson
The Lines <\/em>by Anthony Varallo, reviewed by Nick Gardner
As One Fire Consumes Another<\/em> by John Sibley Williams, reviewed by Matt Miller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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