Vo. 7, The Wild
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 death thing, but tell it slowly, in little pieces, so I can stop you if it’s too much.”
g c cunningham, “Interior Bedroom Night”
“Of course it was. The King, in the flesh.”
Joseph Bodie, “Chesterfield’s”
Interviews
Poetry
G. C. Waldrep, “Mothers, Hunters, Ghosts” & more
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Steven Alvarez, “exacerbates this Harlem”
“to throw light, / cleave a stone.”
Mary Cisper, “Memory Demonstrates the Valley Fold” & more
“the flags raised at noon now droop”
Trey Moody, “Let Me Tell You How Sorry I Am” & more
Visual Arts
Inka & Niclas Lindergård, “The Belt of Venus and The Shadow of the Earth”
Pixy Liao, “Experimental Relationship”
Flash
“I resemble a horned turtle. But I am safe.”
Kathy Fish, “There is No Albuquerque”
“The tones of a new topography.”
Dan Klen, “Leaving the Valley”
Nonfiction
“You can make anything work, even if you have no idea how.”
Quinn Grover, “The Stump Ranch Fish”
“One cold, clear weekend of essential communion.”
Mary Switalski, “November Interval”
Reviews
“It insults neither art nor truth.”
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, “The Revenant”
“It is about loss and grief, art and the contemporary imagination.”
Alison Hawthorne Deming, “Zoologies”