{"id":3973,"date":"2025-08-21T18:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/?page_id=3973"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:34:44","slug":"volume-xli-no-1-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/volume-xli-no-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume XLI, No. 1 &amp; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cover art by Karin Wraley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"211\" class=\"wp-image-3904\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover41.jpg\" alt=\"MAR cover art by Karin Wraley\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover41.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover41-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover41-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover41-768x1079.jpg 768w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover41-1093x1536.jpg 1093w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover41-1457x2048.jpg 1457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>41 Table of Contents<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dani Diehl, &#8220;Daughter&#8221;<br>JoAnna Novak, Two Stories<br>Drew Calvin McCutchen, &#8220;On the Cape of Sleep and Well-Being&#8221;<br>Lara Palmqvist, &#8220;Suhaila&#8221;<br>Shreya Vikram, &#8220;Mother&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>James O&#8217;Bannon, Two Poems<br>Stephanie Duggar, Three Poems<br>Chelsea Dingman, Two Poems<br>Catherine Arnold, &#8220;The Walls Will Be Silenced When She Speaks&#8221;<br>Rebecca Jamieson, &#8220;In the Time Before Worry&#8221;<br>Talia Bloch, &#8220;Corners&#8221;<br>Emily Banks, &#8220;Banana Gun&#8221;<br>Bruce Bond, Two Poems<br>Benjamin Landry, &#8220;Time of Asters&#8221;<br>Erik Wilbur, &#8220;Relativity; or, the Life of a Housefly Is Shorter Than a Solar Day on the Moon&#8221;<br>Katlyn Tjerrild, &#8220;Aftershocks&#8221;<br>Sara McNally, &#8220;Snapshots in Which [ ] Is Everywhere&#8221;<br>Hannah Kroonblawd, Two Poems<br>Kate Patridge, Two Poems<br>Marci Rae Johnson, &#8220;Alternatives to the Big Bang Theory, Explained&#8221;<br>Patrick Whitfill, &#8220;Teleology Vol. 1&#8221;<br>Katie Kehoe, &#8220;Get Results with Real Start Plus for Free Now&#8221;<br>Michael Meyerhofer, &#8220;Text Messages Between Wildfires&#8221;<br>Regina DiPerna, Two Poems<br>Nick Reading, Two Poems<br>Jeff Fearnside, &#8220;What We Call Home&#8221;<br>Brandon Krieg, &#8220;Bees of the Invisible&#8221;<br>April Goldman, Two Poems<br>Danielle Rose, Two Poems<br>Dave Harrity, &#8220;Elegy : Tide&#8221;<br>Rachel Price, &#8220;How to Identify Birds&#8221;<br>Emma Aylor, &#8220;Old Moon&#8221;<br>Emily Paige Wilson, Two Poems<br>Danielle Zaccagnino ,Two Poems<br>Nicole Callihan, &#8220;Days&#8221;<br>Jaimee Hills, Two Poems<br>Emily Hockaday, &#8220;Downsizing&#8221;<br>Anna Girgenti, &#8220;Tiresias Learns to Write&#8221;<br>Jessica Cuello, &#8220;Dear Mother,&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Translation Chapbooks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Aigerim Tazhi, Prayers at Full Volume<br>Translated from the Russian and Introduced by J. Kates<br>Aksinia Mihaylova, The Meaning of Visible Things<br>Translated from the French and Introduced by Marissa Davis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Translation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Salgado Maranh\u00e3o &#8220;Delirica V&#8221;<br>Translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The 2020 Fineline Competition<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>First Prize:<\/strong><\/em><br>Rachel Morgan, &#8220;They Go on Living&#8221;<br><em><strong>Runner-Up:<\/strong><\/em><br>John Blair, &#8220;The Bus&#8221;<br><em><strong>Finalists:<\/strong><\/em><br>Caitie Barrett, &#8220;Psyche&#8221;<br>Leonora Desar, &#8220;Petiteness&#8221;<br>Cory Oldweiler, &#8220;Pentimento&#8221;<br>Steven Slamoni, &#8220;Study in Glass&#8221;<br>Alan Sincic, &#8220;What I Want from the Old Men&#8221;<br>Kristen Smith, &#8220;This blueball strand,&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The 2020 AWP Intro Journals Award<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Jessica Nirvana Ram, &#8220;i am unfit to raise daughters&#8221;<br>Matthew Morris, &#8220;Pardo\/Ghost Hand&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The 2021 AWP Intro Journals Award<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ae Hee Lee, &#8220;Would I Rather Soften&#8221;<br>Danielle Harms, &#8220;The Blood Kettle&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What We&#8217;re Reading<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rare Wondrous Things<\/em> by Alyse Bensel, Reviewed by Mackenna Finley<br><em>48 Blitz<\/em> by Brett Biebel, Reviewed by Matt Miller<br><em>The Calling <\/em>by Bruce Bond, Reviewed by Leslie Benigni<br><em>The Cipher<\/em> by Molly Brodak, Reviewed by Matthew Sweet<br><em>Those Who Keep Arriving<\/em> by Julie Danho, Reviewed by Samantha Fain<br><em>Cloud Cuckoo Land<\/em> by Anthony Doerr, Reviewed by Felicia Cameron<br><em>Mannequin and Wife<\/em> by Jen Fawke&#8217;s, Reviewed by Brenna Hosman<br><em>Tales the Devil Told Me<\/em> by Jen Fawkes, Reviewed by Chloe McConnell<br><em>What If We Were Somewhere Else<\/em> by Wendy Fox, Reviewed by Kelly Kurtzhals Geiger<br><em>Oh You Robot Saints!<\/em> by Rebecca Morgan, Reviewed by Hannah Yerington<br><em>Whale and Vapor <\/em>by Kim Kyung Ju, Reviewed by Turner Wilson<br><em>that&#8217;s what you get<\/em> by Sheila Maldonado, Reviewed by Angelica Esquivel<br><em>The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne <\/em>by Michael Martone, Reviewed by T\u00e9a Franco<br><em>In the Night Field<\/em> by Cameron McGill, Reviewed by Samantha Fain<br><em>How High We Go in the Dark<\/em> by Sequoia Nagamatsu, Reviewed by Jason Marc Harris<br><em>Alien Stories<\/em> by E. C. Osundu, Reviewed by Kangsen &#8220;Yassay&#8221; Masango<br><em>No Mask, No Talk: Corona Poems 2020-2021<\/em> by Eve Packer, Reviewed by Austin Alexis<br><em>Alias<\/em> by Eric Pankey, Reviewed by Turner Wilson<br><em>Fjords vol. 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