Issue 57: Spring 2022

Fiction

From a Great Distance by André Babyn

Jasmine’s Brows and Cuts by Rachel Lachmansingh

The Death Doula and the Snake by Sarah Lord

Poetry

“Blood Oranges” and “the sugar of knowing” by Michael Russell

what keeps me up at night by Jenna Lyn Albert

fiddling with my chew toy strolling across Matthew Wong’s River at Night (2018) by Jane Shi

“A Dark Told Me (The Empty Ones)” and “Pandemia” by Sarain Frank Soonias

After the Boats by Julian Day

Maturity by Sean Beatty

Terrible Things Are Happening in New Jersey! by Topaz Winters

Make Good by Patrick Grace

Essays

How to Heal a Sunburn by Hattie Hayes

For No Other Reason Than To Teach You About Islam by Hajer Mirwali

Interviews

“On Poetic Origins, Creative Space, and Writing Across Genres”: An Interview with Gillian Sze by Yilin Wang

“On Fighting ASL Stigma and Amplifying Deaf Voices”: An Interview with Sara Nović by Bareerah Ghani

“There Was Fear and Faith”: An Interview with Sanna Wani by Farah Ghafoor

Reviews

“Someone is singing on the steep”: Sanna Wani’s My Grief, the Sun by ALHS

Vulnerability and Self-Defence: A Review of Aaron Schneider’s What We Think We Know by Peter Szuban

There is pain, even in relief: A review of Therese Estacion’s Phantompains by Karla Comanda

Tracing the Shadows of Intimacy: Helen Chau Bradley’s Personal Attention Roleplay by Z.Y. Yang

After the Boats

by Julian Day

Julian Day lives in Winnipeg.

after Catullus and Domenica Martinello

No trace of it
the refrain to your want
anywhere in the slip of this
empty slim and wholly
inexorable world

 


Julian Day lives in Winnipeg.

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