{"id":4108,"date":"2026-06-09T20:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/?page_id=4108"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:38:19","slug":"volume-xliv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/volume-xliv\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume XLIV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Volume XLIV 1&amp;2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MARcover44_1thumb-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MARcover44_1thumb-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"cover art by M.M. Dupay, feat close-up hand and pendant in blues and pinks\" class=\"wp-image-4100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MARcover44_1thumb-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MARcover44_1thumb-741x1024.jpg 741w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MARcover44_1thumb-768x1061.jpg 768w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MARcover44_1thumb-1111x1536.jpg 1111w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MARcover44_1thumb-1482x2048.jpg 1482w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MARcover44_1thumb-scaled.jpg 1852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Laurie Blauner, &#8220;Are You Still There&#8221;<br>Daniel Cohen,&nbsp;&#8220;Yarn&#8221;<br>Gwen E. Kirby, &#8220;Wanda Wished&#8221;&nbsp;<br>Jennifer Pullen, &#8220;Faery Fruit: The Life of Christina Rossetti in Portraits both Real and Imagined&#8221;<br>Adam Kohut, &#8220;PROXY&#8221;<br>Kenton K. Yee, &#8220;Wormholing&#8221;<br>R. M. Cooper,&nbsp;&#8220;Difficult Conversations&#8221;&nbsp;<br>Schuyler Mitchell, &#8220;The Buffalo&#8221;<br>Mialise Carney,&nbsp;&#8220;The Leftover Girls&#8221;&nbsp;<br>Talitha Greaver,&nbsp;&#8220;The Waiting Woman&#8221;<br>William Woolfitt, &#8220;House Wrens&#8221;&nbsp;<br>Erik Moyer, &#8220;Bear in Mind&#8221;&nbsp;<br>Zachary Tyler Vickers,&nbsp;&#8220;The Ilk of Their Shrewdness&#8221;<br>Alexandra Wingo, &#8220;Angels in the Mississippi&#8221;&nbsp;<br>Thea Swanson, &#8220;Running Women&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Creative Nonfiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexandra Teague, &#8220;The Archaic Torso of My Late 40s&#8221;<br>Meg Thompson, &#8220;Journal of Pain&#8221;<br>Emily Holmes, &#8220;A Case for Looking Directly into the Light&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Poem<\/strong>s<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Janet McNally,&nbsp;&#8220;Cartoon Universe&#8221;<br>Jenny Molberg, &#8220;Elaine by the Sea&#8221;<br>Monica Fields , &#8220;Rhode Island Swans&#8221;<br>David Thacker, &#8220;On contemplating how growing zones will shift with the climate&#8221;<br>Ayesha Raees, &#8220;Anaphora for&#8221;<br>Gaylord Brewer, &#8220;[What if I prefer, Mary, to no longer live in the world?]&#8221;<br>Benjamin S. Grossberg, Two Poems<br>Lex Orgera, &#8220;Treatments for Women&#8221;<br>Alyse Bensel, Two Poems<br>Yetta Rose Stein, &#8220;Letter Regarding My Apocalypse&#8221;<br>Charles Fort, &#8220;The Artist, Wilde, Forgot the Living Things&#8221;<br>Michael Derrick Hudson,&nbsp;&#8220;The Archaeologist Explains Things to the Mummy of Seti II&#8221;<br>Lillian Emerick Valentine, &#8220;Paraglossum&#8221;<br>Katy E. Ellis, &#8220;Cavities at the End of the Earth&#8221;<br>John A. Nieves, Two Poems<br>Scott Frey, &#8220;Subduction&#8221;&nbsp;<br>Jacob Sunderlin, &#8220;Amendment to the Pledge I Signed Promising to Not Promote Radical Theories about the Overthrow of the State While Teaching for the State&#8221;<br>Darla Himeles,&nbsp;&#8220;Jack&#8221;<br>Jason Tandon,&nbsp;&#8220;Reading the New Charles Simic Book I Was Saving for Vacation&#8221;<br>Daniel DeVaughn, &#8220;Orientation at the Alabama Department of Youth Services, Vacca Campus&#8221;<br>David Moolten, &#8220;Subversive&#8221;<br>Gary Young, Two Poems<br>Mark MacAllister,&nbsp;&#8220;Exophony&#8221;<br>Judy Halebsky, &#8220;PROOF. n<em>.\/pruf\/<\/em>&#8220;<br>E. B. Schnepp, &#8220;dishonest in its petals,&#8221;<br>Kayla Pearce, Two Poems<br>Charlie Peck, &#8220;Shucks Fish House &amp; Oyster Bar&#8221;<br>Daniel Bourne, &#8220;On Learning the Old Language [in the Country of Illinois]&#8221;<br>Rachel Mallalieu, &#8220;Entropy&#8221;<br>Danielle Pieratti, &#8220;Introduction to Dante&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Translations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Liliana Ponce, Two Poems, translated from the Spanish by Michael Martin Shea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Translation Chapbooks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Henri Meschonnic, <em>Sentences Prolonged Through Our Erasures<\/em>, translated from the French by Gabrielle Bedetti and Don Boes and Introduced by Gabriella Bedetti<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pavle Goranovi\u0107, <em>A Town No One Has Managed to Leave<\/em>, Translated from the Montenegrin by Will Firth and Introduced by Will Firth and Tijana Rako\u010devi\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The 2025 and 2026 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cela Xi\u00e8, &#8220;\u83ab\u751f Only Absence, No Time&#8221;<br>Josiah Roberts,&nbsp;&#8220;To Shoulder the Weight&#8221;<br>Sophie Nunberg, &#8220;This Is Just to Say I Have Recommended the Last Book You Were Saving&#8221;<br>Selene Hofstetter, &#8220;at\u00e1chuush | ocean coast&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume XLIV 1&amp;2 Fiction Laurie Blauner, &#8220;Are You Still There&#8221;Daniel Cohen,&nbsp;&#8220;Yarn&#8221;Gwen E. 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