Journal Archive 2019-2015

FICTION

Drew Johnson, O Luxury
Rachel Hochhauser, Speaking to a Quiet Room
Tricia Yost, Something Good
Jane Renaud, Housework
Colleen O’Brien, All Roads
Caitlin Kuehn, The Extraterrestrial Trauma of Glitter 

POETRY

Shamala Gallagher, When It Is Time to Sell the Pain as a Poem and Poets of Color, I Want My Darker Skin Gold
Randall Watson, Fire on the Plains
JD Scott, Youngblood and As Concord the Hustlers Sing
Tina Barr, Mayhem and Einstein’s Floating World
Candace G. Wiley, Answers for the Hard Questions and How to Lift Him / That Great Gittinup
Joshua Nguyen, Aunt Peach, by No Means, Bruises Easily
Christopher J. Greggs, See Yourself See Me Too and For Pop to get the seeds for Mama’s coral vine it took him all summer
Addie Tsai [I didn’t believe the other children at first.] and [my twin, the nameless one, wild in the woods]
Casandra Lopez, How to Keep Track of San Bernardino’s Homicides and Show and Tell Shame
Annie Woodford, Beauty Shop
Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Cenote
Analicia Sotelo, Separation Anxiety
Jasminne Mendez, When You Ask Me What I Know of Santo Domingo and In the Texas Summer Heat
James D. Autio, Therein My Slender Button and Of Misakakojiish
Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal, Attack del Autorretrato: Infidelities of a Self-Portrait and Office Body
Julian Randall, Verdict
DeShara Suggs-Joe, A Five-Question Survey on Blackness
Lupe Mendez, Un soñador al momento que le dicen que no (Houston, 12.10.16) and To the Priest Who Told One of My Students That Holding a Forum on Campus Could Make the Kids Act Like “the Savage Latinos” He Saw on TV Burning Trump Piñatas
Kimberly Alidio, Dearest, I’m Writing from Inside This Place to You Who Are in a Totally Different Place 

NONFICTION

Angie Cruz, Exposed
Grace Singh Smith, The Haircut
DeShara Suggs-Joe, Home
Renée Branum, Mlsná
Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Times I Didn’t Say Much 

REVIEW

Michael Demson, March, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

Poetry

Jim Daniels, In Defense of a Familiar Story, First Communion
Cynthia Marie Hoffman, from Call Me When You Want to Talk About the Tombstones
Garret Keizer, Oldsmobile, Unloved
Jesse Lee Kercheval, Les Vampires, Paris Sleeps, La Cité des Enfants
Laura Cesarco Eglin (trans. Jesse Lee Kercheval & Catherine Jagoe) Clues, Coming to Terms
Richard King Perkins II, Sociopath Divine, Pirates of the Southern Desert
Jane Craven, Red Star 

Fiction

John Thornton Williams, Lilly’s Voice 
John Oliver Hodges, Grout 
John Picard, At the Southern Baptist Convention 
Clay Reynolds, Balanced Marriage
Gonzalo Baeza (Trans. Joseph D. Haske), The Show 

Nonfiction

Ben Reed, Trigger Warning: Reflections on Politeness, Dystopia, and Concealed Firearms in the College Classroom 
Johnnie Bernhard, The Myth of 1969 Vermilion Parish, Louisiana 
Clay Reynolds, Reaching the Summit: Ruminations on Retirement of a Baby Boomer: A Confession and a Valediction 
Dave Newman, Fuck You, Johnny Depp 

Reviews

Phillip Parotti, Ross Calvin: Interpreter of the American Southwest, by Ron Hamm, Ancestors, by Gladys Swan
Jennifer Buentello, The Magic of Mariachi / La Magia del Mariachi, by Steven and Reefka Schneider
Dennis Mont’Ros, Aguacamino/Waterpath, by Rossy Evelin Lima
John Molina, Freak Show, by Valerie Bandura
George Williams, Don’t Think, by Richard Burgin
Liana Vrajitoru, The Gospel of the Twin, by Ron Cooper
Emad Jabini, Stray Dogs: Interviews with Working-Class Writers, edited by Daniel M. Mendoza

—Fiction—

Erica Abeel Dawn S. Davies Bipin Aurora J. Bob Blacklock Mario J. Jorge

Begin in Gladness     from Wild Girls Anatomy Notes of a Mediocre Man Everything is All Right? Lo, Behold the False Shepherd

—Essays—

Donley Watt George Drew Laurence Lieberman

Mexico Chronicles: Night of the Niño Poems that Jack Took: The Dressing Down of an Editor Igniting Sparks from Tamura's Smithy

—Poetry—

Rita Quillen Margaret Mackinnon Matthew Bruce Harrison Sarah Cortez Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow Taylor Gorman

The Mad Farmer Dances, Canning Ghazal Myrtle Beach, 1960 Sun Eye, Life Between Food Chains, Sadistic At Rest Baton Twirler with Horns Reincarnated (Body), Mirror, Chicken

—Reviews—

Richard Wirick Liana Vrajitoru Andreasen Jorge Hinojosa Daniel M. Mendoza

Lucia Berlin's Up Over Every Dark Thing: A Manual for Cleaning Women Liza Bakewell's Madre: Perilous Journey with a Spanish Noun Casey Clabough's Schooled: Life Lessons of a College Professor William Hastings' Stray Dogs: Writing from the Other America

Errata We neglected to include one contributor: Liana Vrajitoru teaches at South Texas College; she has published fiction in journals such as Calliope, Fiction International, Mobius, Six Minute Magazine, and scholarly articles in journals such as Alecart, Texas Review, American Book Review, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Southwestern American Literature, The CEA Critic. She is the author of the following review which appears on page 153: Madre: Perilous Journey with a Spanish Noun, by Liza Bakewell.

 

—Fiction—

Paul Crenshaw Flight of the Butterflies
Celestin d’Olaine The Recruiter
Michael Gills Emergency Instructions
Doug Haines Meat

—Essays—

Kathy Flann Chapter Seven: Off-Color From Sit, Speak, Stay
Stephen E. Smith A Memory of George Garrett
Robert N. Winship The Fur Cap from Moscow

—Poetry—

Deborah Bacharach in the fairy tale in which i live
Deborah Bacharach To Hold Him
Kai Carlson Wee The Cascade Tunnel
Kai Carlson Wee Riders
Thomas Dorsett The Ginkgoes on Main Street
Thomas Dorsett Who Was That Glum Passer-By?
George Drew Losing Myself at Mount St. Mary College
George Drew The Men
George Drew Not Quite Philadelphia
Kendall Dunkelberg The Cottage
Kendall Dunkelber Great Spirit Road
Kendall Dunkelber Nullah
Kendall Dunkelber The Road to Shu
David Mercier Parsons Sometimes the Darkness
Peter Serchuk Mated for Life
Jeff Worley At the Nursing Home
Jeff Worley Marriage

—Reviews—

Robert Cremins Ted Estess’ Fishing Spirit Lake
Anna Drysdale Rusty Barnes’ Reckoning
Josh Polinard Larry Fondation’s Martyrs and Holymen
Phillip Parotti Gladys Swan’s A Dark Gamble
Trevor Stott William Hastings’ The Hard Way