SCR Issue 53.1 includes fiction by Kevin Wilson and Evan Lavender-Smith, poetry by Lisa Summe and Elsa Cross, and an interview with Toni Jensen, author of Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land.
CONTENTS
POETRY
1 DWAINE RIEVES Factory
2 OJO TAIYE Last Rite
14 ALINA STEFANESCU Artifice
24 LAURA MINOR Author’s Prayer; In Fractals of Matter on Earth Where Heaven is a Metaphor for Heaven
36 TODD BOSS Never Done
38 JOHNSON CHEU What Would I Do Able-Bodied?
65 ELSA CROSS Footnote; Coda
Translated by SUSAN AYRES
77 LISA SUMME Regret in X Parts; When I spend the night, first time; At My Grandma’s Funeral I Think Only of My Grandfather
91 TODD DAVIS What We Died For
92 BRITTON SHURLEY To Francisco Starks, who Stole my Car from my Driveway, Late One Saturday Night
94 FOX HENRY FRAZIER Silver-Eyed Lilínabalén’s Enduring Curse Is Thought to Be the Reason that the Caxxinoqi Have Preserved Their Ancient Prohibition Against All Practices of Divination
100 BRADFORD TICE Our Affairs
117 RONALD DZERIGIAN After National Public Radio Names Seventeen Dead
118 ALAMGIR HASHMI Garbage News
127 STEPHEN FELLNER Second Attempt at a Cantrip for my Mother’s Dementia
128 MICHAEL MALAN Beside the Waiting River
137 DAVID TROUPES Then Almost an Unbroken Forest
FICTION
3 ALYSSA NORTHROP Thanksgiving
16 KEVIN WILSON The Blue Tiger
26 KOSISO UGWUEZE Frontier
39 EVAN LAVENDER-SMITH Letters from Her Piano Teacher
68 AMY KIGER-WILLIAMS Tybee Island
84 STEPHEN HUNDLEY Abstinence for Arkansas
97 RAYMOND DEEJ Matters of Geese
102 KATHERINE ANN DAVIS Where There Were Cracks
120 ANNA LOWE WEBER Fault
129 CHRISTINA YANG Crossing the Bridge
NONFICTION
140 MIRIAM MCEWEN Carrying Witness: A Conversation with Toni Jensen
BOOK REVIEWS
145 WALT HUNTER That Was What Life Was Like: David Blair’s Barbarian Seasons
148 TARA JO LENERTZ Memories Woven in Space and Time: Julia Koet’s The Rib Joint
152 JENNA RICHARD The Weight of Silence: Lisa Summe’s Say It Hurts
155 JOHN RICHARD SAYLOR A Very Effable Sadness: John McNally’s The Fear of Everything
CONTRIBUTORS
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