Issue 51: Fall 2020
Thomas Morton Prize: Fiction Winner
Thomas Morton Prize: Poetry Winner
Fiction
Poetry
Essays
Interviews
Reviews
Runner Up: Look Alive
K.B. Thors is a poet, translator, and educator. The author of Vulgar Mechanics (Coach House, 2019), she is the Icelandic-English translator of Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir’s Stormwarning (Phoneme, 2018), nominated for the 2019 PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation and winner of the American Scandinavian Foundation’s Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize. She is also the Spanish-English translator of Soledad Marambio’s Chintungo: The Story of Someone Else (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017) and serves as Translation Editor for Newfound: An Inquiry of Place.
The amber mosquito in Jurassic Park
saw this coming. Remember that cane, that palmed
Atlantis bulb waiting for some stud to come along
and crush it like a shotgunned can of Coors?
Every post on High Arctic Energy Services’
corporate LinkedIn is a blood drive, safety award
or picnic lunch: publicity stunts because the work
is poison, a world-class fleet of melting service rigs.
These days you can get a barrel of crude for less
than a pint of IPA but both containers will sink
the same, settling without a sound on the ocean floor
while upstairs in a bubble bath your best friend’s toddler
smacks her board book of extant fish, squealing
now this is what I call an agenda!
K.B. Thors is a poet, translator, and educator. The author of Vulgar Mechanics (Coach House, 2019), she is the Icelandic-English translator of Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir’s Stormwarning (Phoneme, 2018), nominated for the 2019 PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation and winner of the American Scandinavian Foundation’s Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize. She is also the Spanish-English translator of Soledad Marambio’s Chintungo: The Story of Someone Else (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017) and serves as Translation Editor for Newfound: An Inquiry of Place.