Featured
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An Interview with Ji Hyun Joo
“I wanted to write a story about a young man who self-isolates and lives vicariously through his comic book character … As I fleshed out the character of Darwin, themes about power dynamics (whose experience is seen and unseen) came out more significantly.”
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Guest Editor Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian: Nonficton Selections
“We often treat landscapes and other species as replaceable, interchangeable—a tree is a tree is a tree … Each of these four essays involve different stories of encounters with trees, and each is told very differently.”
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New Art on Old Ground: Irish Women Poets
“In work that is witty, subversive, socially conscious, and distinct, these poets navigate intimate subjects such as childbirth and the shock of motherhood, bereavement, rapture, environmental crisis, queer desire, art-making, and selfhood.”
This Issue
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Cover Art: Electric Forest, by Lydia Baker (2021); colored pencil on paper, 26″ x 40″
Courtesy of the artist and Massey Klein Gallery, New YorkPoetry
- Madeleine Bazil
Short Film - Saba Keramati
Ace of Cups - Patrick Dundon
Into the Iron
Fiction/Translation- Jana Putrle Srdić & Sue Vickerman
The crushed-shell beach, dazzling white
Fiction
- Ji Hyun Joo
Chubby Asian Superhero
Guest Editor Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian:
Nonfiction Selections- Editor’s Introduction
- Lilly Torosyan
Remnants of the Soil - Rodney Bailey
The Trees That Grew from Concrete on 148th Street: That’s What It Is - Grace Derksen
The Sound of Sap - Cole Larson-Whittaker
Red Creek
The Back of the Book
- Split the Lark: Shara Lessley on Contemporary Poetry
New Art on Old Ground: New Irish Women Poets
on Tara Bergin, Rosamund Taylor, Jessica Traynor, and Molley Twomey - Book Review
Human Limitations
on Jane Huffman
by Lloyd Wallace
Interview
An Interview with Ji Hyun Joo
by Aki Kuromochi - Madeleine Bazil
