Open a Cocoon: An Interview with Mary Cisper by Karin Cecile Davidson Mary Cisper’s debut poetry collection, “Dark Tussock Moth,” winner of the 2016 Trio Award (Trio House Press, 2017), is a sweeping land, crossed by drought and…
Poetry: Mary Cisper
Memory Demonstrates the Valley Fold Mary Cisper Teleprompting my mother last week— splice question mark hands, migration routes: homecoming takes four generations to arrive in Mexico, polished and shined. Freeze frame: Hold it. I’ve never been there. When…
Poetry: Mary Cisper
Calligraphies Mary Cisper Six-hundredths of an inch last night and here one must borrow less than the thickness of paper to write the rain hinge whiptail lizard white primroses . . . Mist on the seed-coat startles chemistries washes small…
Volume no. 11
Issue 2, Fall 2020: Amie Zimmerman | Aghaghia Rahimzadeh | Leanne Dunic | Brishti Guha | April Sunami | J.L. Lapinel | Emily Finan | John Murillo | Krysta Lee Frost | Janelle Cordero | Christopher Berardino | Eloisa…
Reviews: The Avalanche Path in Summer
Reporting from the Ground A review by Mary Cisper Susan Tichy, “The Avalanche Path in Summer” Ahsahta Press 113 pages, softcover, $18.00 The question is not Does being have meaning, But does meaning have being. What is…
Volume no. 9
Print no. 5: Meher Ali | Hanif Abdurraqib | Nicole Rivas | Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles | Kristine Ong Muslim | Molly Zapp | Octavio Quintanilla | Elizabeth Schwaiger | Maura Pellettieri | Martha Lundin | Suzy González | Mariko…
Reviews: Blue Pearl
Human, Earth, I A review by Mary Cisper “Blue Pearl,” Lesley Harrison New Directions, 2017 2017, 47 pages, softcover, $10.95 There are persistent holes all over Lesley Harrison’s recent collection, “Blue Pearl,” and some of them are…
Issue 2
Volume no. 8, Issue 2 Fiction “O” Kaitlin Solimine, “Sight” “Your first word was gun.” Thaddeus Rutkowski, “Safe Colors” “I had a little bird And its name was Enza. I opened the window And in-flew-Enza.”…
Volume no. 8
Issue 2, Fall 2017: Kaitlin Solimine | Joseph Ernst | Mortada Gzar | Katharine Halls | Molly McCully Brown | Marina Rubin | Dean Liao | Josephine Yu | Thaddeus Rutkowski | Sarah E. Swist & Kevin R. Mercer…
Issue 2
Vo. 7, The Wild Letter from the Editor Fiction “It’s a wise queen who retires willingly, who doesn’t cling to that old joy and pain.” Bonnie Jo Campbell, “Daughters of the Animal Kingdom” “Tell me one…
Letter: V7I2
Letter from the Editor Vo. 7, Issue 2 Des chevaux sans tête, des poules couveuses, des ours tueurs … mais oui. On espère que vous appréciez ce numéro du thème sauvage qui présente l’œuvre sauvagement talentueuse de Bonnie…
Volume no. 7
“The Wild,” Spring 2016: Bonnie Jo Campbell | G. C. Waldrep | Inka & Niclas Lindergård | Kathy Fish | Quinn Grover | Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu | G. C. Cunningham | Steven Alvarez | Pixy Liao | Noel Hoffman…
Issue 2
Letter from the Editor Volume no. 5, Spring – “Borderlands” Poetry Sarah Messer, “Only Sky Animal,” “Homestead Resort Cameo,” and more Craig Santos Perez, “All With Ocean Views” Mary Cisper, “Calligraphies,” “Vase of Red Tulips,” and more Trey Moody,…
Volume no. 5
Print no. 1: Maury Gortemiller | Olivia Cronk | Tom Cantwell | Craig Santos Perez | Yojiro Imasaka | Darrin Doyle | Heather Kirn Lanier | Kate Breakey | Jennifer Baum | Sarah Messer | Harrison Candelaria Fletcher …
Archives
Archives Volume no. 13 “Communities of Care,” Spring 2022: Jim Ross • Kayla Jessop • Patrick Loafman • Autumn Fourkiller • Charlotte Gross • Kate Cohen • S.K. Brownell • Surnaí Molloy • Aiden Baker • Melissa Llanes Brownlee…