Contents

Poetry
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Broken Words by Barrett Ahn
Three by Amanda Auerbach
Three by Kellam Ayres
Pavlov’s Dogs by Brian Culhane
Bird Calendar (Earth List) by Kate Fagan
So I Am Little by Hasham Khalid
Three by Jacqueline Kolosov
Three by Daniel Nemo
The Inside Twitch by Robert Okaji
Five by Christina Pugh

​Essay

Doubling Back by Pippa Goldschmidt

Interview

Writing Is Like Finding Which Window to Open
​In conversation with Kristina Andersson Bicher

Poetry (Translations)

​the autobiography between us by toino dumas, tr. Arielle Burgdorf
Two by Marie Lundquist, tr. Kristina Andersson Bicher
L’Alouette by Daniel Nemo, tr. Pryscilla Hebel
Two by Iduna Paalman, tr. Daniel Nemo
A Poem by Fernando Pessoa, tr. Daniel Nemo
Three by Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. Daniel Nemo
Homeric Hymn to Helios, tr. Fortunato Salazar

​Photography

Forest Hanging from Inflection Point

Fine Arts

​Focus on Sacha Carden

Contributors

Barrett Ahn is a senior at Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles. She has been recognized by the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, TeenInk, The Decameron Project, and more. Her debut novel, Of Swords and Seasons, is available now on Amazon Kindle. When she’s not writing, she’s either reading or eating her favorite Korean dish, sundubu.

Amanda Auerbach teaches literature and creative writing at Catholic University in Washington D.C. Her book of poems What Need Have We For Such as We was published by C&R Press in 2019, and her poems have also appeared in The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, and Fence.

Kellam Ayres’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review, Guernica, The Cortland Review, The Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere. She was recently awarded a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant in support of her first manuscript. She’s a graduate of both the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the Bread Loaf School of English. She works for the Middlebury College Library and lives with her family in rural Vermont.

Kristina Andersson Bicher is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her debut full-length collection She-Giant in the Land of Here-We-Go-Again was published in 2020 by MadHat Press. Her chapbook, Just Now Alive, was a finalist in the New Women’s Voices Series (FLP, 2014). Her translation of Swedish poet Marie Lundquist's collection I walk around gathering up my garden for the night was published in a bilingual edition in 2020 by Bitter Oleander Press. For more information, go to www.kristinabicher.com/ 

Arielle Burgdorf is a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz studying feminist and queer translation from Québec. They have work published in Tasteful Rude, Maximum Rocknroll, Crab Fat Magazine, X-Ray Literary Magazine, and others. Their chapbook, I am an Unhappy Male Painter, is forthcoming from Greying Ghost Press. They were also a Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow for 2021.

Sacha Carden's works have been showcased in Europe and the United States for over 30 years, with exhibitions in the Art Institute of Atlanta and Tula Gallery (GA) and Sylva Gallery (NC), among others. 

Brian Culhane’s poetry has appeared in such journals as The Hudson Review, PN Review, Plume, The New Republic, and The Paris Review. His book, The King’s Question (Graywolf, 2008), won the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson Award for a first book from a poet over 50. His second collection, Remembering Lethe, was recently released by Able Muse Press. 

toino dumas resides on the unceded territory of the Omàmìwininìwag/Algonquin nation; her tools include herbalism, poetry, and queer magic. They have published several books, but most of their work is silent, hovering between celebration and betrayal.

© Tony Mott

Kate Fagan is a poet, editor and songwriter whose third book First Light (Giramondo) was short-listed for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Age Book of the Year Award. She is Director of the Writing & Society Research Centre (WSU) where she also leads The Writing Zone, a mentoring program for emerging writers and arts workers from Western Sydney. Her album Diamond Wheel won the National Film & Sound Archive Award for Folk Recording and she supported Joan Baez on her 2013 tour of Australia/NZ.

Pippa Goldschmidt lives in Scotland and Germany. She’s the author of the novel The Falling Sky, the short story collection The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space, and co-editor (with Tania Hershman) of I Am Because You Are (all originally published by Freight Books). Her poetry, stories and non-fiction have been published in a variety of places including Gutter, Mslexia, Litro, The Scottish Review of Books, New York Times, and also broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

​Hasham Khalid is a poet from Pakistan. His poetry is inspired by the organic life of the cities he has lived in. He tweets @afterdoubt.

Jacqueline Kolosov is a poet and prose writer whose awards include an NEA Fellowship. Her book-length words include Memory of Blue (Salmon Poetry) and A Sweet Disorder (Hyperion/Disney), among others. She has coedited three anthologies of contemporary writing, most recently Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Investigation of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. Originally from Chicago, she now lives and works in the Texas Panhandle along with her dogs and horses.

​​Daniel Nemo is an Amsterdam-based poet, translator, and photographer.
More info at www.danielnemo.com

Robert Okaji is a displaced Texan living in Indiana. He holds a BA in history, served without distinction in the U.S. Navy, once won a goat-catching contest, and is the author of multiple chapbooks, including the 2021 Etchings Press Poetry Prize-winning My Mother's Ghost Scrubs the Floor at 2 a.m. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Threepenny Review, Book of Matches, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, Buddhist Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Purifying Wind, Wildness, and elsewhere.

© Sebastian Steveniers

Iduna Paalman (Rolde, 1991) is a poet and writer. Her poetry debut De grom uit de hond halen (Taking the snarl out of the dog) was released in 2019 and nominated for the Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize and the C. Buddingh’ Prize. In 2020 she won the Poetry Debut Prize. The Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant named her literary talent of the year. Her work was published in De Revisor, De Gids, De Groene Amsterdammer and NRC Handelsblad. She has performed her poems at various festivals such as the Nacht van de Poëzie and Lowlands. Her second collection Bewijs van bewaring (Proof of preservation) will be published later this year. Besides her work as a writer, Iduna Paalman is a teacher and a moderator. www.idunapaalman.nl 

Christina Pugh has published five books of poems including Stardust Media (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry; and Perception (Four Way Books, 2017), named one of the top poetry books of 2017 by Chicago Review of Books. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Yale Review, and many other publications. A former Guggenheim fellow in poetry and Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, she is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Fortunato Salazar's translation and other work can be found at jubilat, Plume, Washington Square Review, Guernica, Conjunctions, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He lives in West Hollywood, CA.