{"id":4001,"date":"2025-08-21T21:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/?page_id=4001"},"modified":"2025-08-21T21:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:05:29","slug":"volume-xliii-no-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/volume-xliii-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume XLIII, No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MARcover43_2thumb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MARcover43_2thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Art by Sheila Squillante featuring a black bridge and MAR's letters in yellow\" class=\"wp-image-3970\" style=\"width:144px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MARcover43_2thumb.jpg 600w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MARcover43_2thumb-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>43.2 Table of Contents<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Garcia Bertrand, \u201cThe Fall of Virgilio\u201d<br>Jonathan Johnson, \u201cChorus of the Cold Weather Body Farm\u201d<br>Ryan Habermeyer, \u201cGutwise\u201d<br>Mason Koa, \u201cDominion\u201d<br>Jane Camoleze, \u201cLady Pig\u201d<br>RJ Steele, \u201cAn Incident Requiring the Intervention of Verakov Capital Private Wealth Investment Firm\u2019s Human Resources Department\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Philip Pardi, \u201cOnly the Living Are Bewildered\u201d<br>Clayton Adam Clark, \u201cBefore Me Is Always Fled\u201d<br>Maya Jewell Zeller, \u201cHex as Fairy Tale\u201d<br>Cora Clark, Two Poems<br>Cara Dees, Two Poems<br>Gabrielle Grace Hogan, Two Poems<br>Jason Fraley, Two Poems<br>Kristina Faust, Two Poems<br>Charity Ketz, Two Poems<br>JoAnne Tillemans, \u201cPheasants\u201d<br>Sonja Vitow, \u201cSevenling (re: Mutualism)\u201d<br>Kimberly Cloutier Green, Two Poems<br>Marjorie Saiser, \u201cJake Showed Up at His Sister\u2019s Place\u201d<br>Caleb Scott, \u201cBeetle Song\u201d<br>Ruth Dickey, \u201c[I feel green space]\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Translation Chapbook<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Juan Armando Rojas Joo, The Path That Carries Our Names<br>Translated from the Spanish and Introduced by Paula J. Lambert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What We\u2019re Reading<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Smothermoss<\/em> by Alissa Alering, Reviewed by Matthew J. Kreglow<br><em>The Mirror of Simple Souls<\/em> by Leah Flax Barber, Reviewed by Nathan Fako<br><em>Twist: Tales of a Queer Girlhood<\/em> by Adele Bertei, Reviewed by Melayna Pongratz<br><em>Cheap Motels of My Youth<\/em> by George Bilgere, Reviewed by Garret Miller<br><em>Leaving Biddle City<\/em> by Marianne Chan, Reviewed by Nathan Fako<br><em>The Theme Park of Women\u2019s Bodies<\/em> by Maggie Cooper, Reviewed by Hannah Goss<br><em>Arrangement<\/em> by Merridawn Duckler, Reviewed by Meg Spring<br><em>Where Babies Come From<\/em> by Ori Fienberg, Reviewed by Mary Robles<br><em>Don\u2019t Do It\u2014We Love You, My Heart<\/em> by Jonathan Fink, Reviewed by Jaden Gootjes<br><em>You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems<\/em> by Rebecca Foust, Reviewed by Garret Miller<br><em>The Spring Before Obergefell<\/em> by Ben Grossberg, Reviewed by Liz Barnett<br><em>Disapparitions<\/em> by Joseph Harrington, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson<br><em>Year of Plenty: A Family\u2019s Season of Grief<\/em> by B.J. Hollars, Reviewed by Serenity Dieufaite<br><em>True Believer<\/em> by Jeff Kass, Reviewed by Michelle Altstaetter<br><em>French Girl <\/em>by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Reviewed by Amanda McGuire Rzicznek<br><em>The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That<\/em> by Nick Lantz, Reviewed by Elly Luisa Salah<br><em>Ninetails: Nine Tales<\/em> by Sally Wen Mao, Reviewed by Sydney Koeplin<br><em>Break Self: Feed<\/em> by Gabrielle Myers, Reviewed by Anna Vaughn<br><em>Bingo Bango Boingo<\/em> by Alan Michael Parker, Reviewed by Hannah Goss<br><em>Camera Lake<\/em> by Alex Pickett, Reviewed by Liz Barnett<br><em>Bitter Water Opera<\/em> by Nicolette Polek, Reviewed by Jane Wageman<br><em>Kin: Practically True Stories<\/em> by V Efua Prince, Reviewed by Carolyn Hogg<br><em>Good Dress<\/em> by Brittney Rogers, Reviewed by Elly Luisa Salah<br><em>Sour Cherry<\/em> by Natalia Theodoridou, Reviewed by Sydney Koeplin<br><em>Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation<\/em> by Sarah Yahm, Reviewed by Serenity Dieufaite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>43.2 Table of Contents Fiction Michael Garcia Bertrand, \u201cThe Fall of Virgilio\u201dJonathan Johnson, \u201cChorus of the Cold Weather Body Farm\u201dRyan&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4001","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4002,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4001\/revisions\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}