{"id":3989,"date":"2025-08-21T20:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/?page_id=3989"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:39:48","slug":"volume-xlii-no-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/volume-xlii-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume XLII, No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover42_2-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"721\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover42_2--721x1024.jpg\" alt=\"MAR 42.2 cover, chicken lady by Jessica Dawnz\" class=\"wp-image-3906\" style=\"width:202px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover42_2--721x1024.jpg 721w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover42_2--211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover42_2--768x1091.jpg 768w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover42_2--1082x1536.jpg 1082w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover42_2--1442x2048.jpg 1442w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MAR-sm-cover42_2-.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>42.2 Table of Contents<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Colten Dom &#8220;The Retch&#8221;<br>Naomi Wood &#8220;Dino Moms&#8221;<br>Matthew Fiander &#8220;Controlled Burns&#8221;<br>Chad Fore &#8220;Small-Town Locals&#8221;<br>Toni Judnitch &#8220;Undertow&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Christopher Citro &#8220;Sugar in the Gourd and the Gourd upon the Ground&#8221;<br>Shivani Mehta &#8220;Once, in the desert, I searched for manzanitas&#8221;<br>Jeannine Hall Gailey &#8220;Crows Splinter the Rain&#8221;<br>Susannah Lodge-Rigal &#8220;Drawing Your Hands from Memory&#8221;<br>Michelle Gomez &#8220;How to Navigate a Minefield&#8221;<br>Maryam Ghafoor &#8220;Islamic Herbology&#8221;<br>Patrick Dundon &#8220;Magnificent UFO&#8221;<br>Andrew Robin &#8220;Two Poems&#8221;<br>\u00d6sel Jessica Plante &#8220;The Chronicle of Three Sisters&#8221;<br>Indrani Sengupta &#8220;Two Poems&#8221;<br>Tennessee Hill &#8220;Rabbit Test&#8221;<br>Adam Clay &#8220;Self-Portrait as Invasive Species&#8221;<br>Vanesha Pravin &#8220;Red-Winged Blackbird&#8221;<br>John McCarthy &#8220;Our Once Content Father Possesses Regrets for Planting Marigolds&#8221;<br>Christopher Warner &#8220;Two Poems&#8221;<br>Maria Himmelman &#8220;The Frogs&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Translation Chapbooks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Salgado Maranh\u00e3o &#8220;The Rain That Sweetens the Name of Things&#8221;<br>Translated from the Portuguese and Introduced by Alexis Levitin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The 2023 AWP Intro Journal Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Angela Voras-Hills &#8220;Three Days after My Mom Starts Hospice, My Son Can&#8217;t Sleep&#8221;<br>Ciara Alfaro &#8220;Hair&#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>In The Shape of Things to Come<\/em> by John Blair, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson<br><em>Lifeaholics Anonymous<\/em> by Neil Carpathios, Reviewed by Lucas Dean Clark<br><em>The Devil&#8217;s Workshop<\/em> by Xavier Cavazos, Reviewed by Mary Robles<br><em>until all you see is sky <\/em>by George Choundas, Reviewed by Muhammad Sheeraz Dasti<br><em>Cravings <\/em>by Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Reviewed by Debrah Miszak<br><em>The Amnesiac in the Maze <\/em>by Michael Czyzniejewski, Reviewed by Dan Marcantuono<br><em>Green Burial<\/em> by Derek Graf, Reviewed by Meagan Chandler<br><em>One Person Holds So Much Silence<\/em> by David Greenspan, Reviewed by Elly Salah<br><em>Let Our Bodies Change the Subject<\/em> by Jared Har\u00e9l, Reviewed by Tyler Michael Jacobs<br><em>Homelight<\/em> by Lola Haskins, Reviewed by Jeff Gundy<br><em>Do You Remember Being Born?<\/em> by Sean Michaels, Reviewed by Jane Wageman<br><em>Dry Land <\/em>by B. 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