SCR Issue 55.1 includes poetry by Ifeoluwa Ayandele and Elizabeth Erin Smith, with fiction by Glenn Bertram and Banzelman Guret, a translation by Maria José Caro, and a book review by Miriam McEwen.
Contents
Poetry
1 EVELYN OLMOS House of Mirrors
5 KATE GASKIN Multiverse with Boybands and Roses; Poem Beginning with a Phrase from Cosmos
9 AZA PACE The Sorceress
19 IFEOLUWA AYANDELE How You Try to Remove the Soil Buried in Your Fingernails
20 BENJAMIN PALOFF Of Cruelty; That Difficulties Augment Our Desires
22 SARAH BROWNING Quarantine, Middle Days
24 DEE MATTHEWS to tell you three things on my mind is to tell you about quarantine and temperance
32 DAVID ANUAR The Health of Insurance; Axial; She Refuses to Die
47 JESSICA POLI Pennsylvania Backwoods Elegy
49 ERNEST O. ÒGÚNYEMÍ About Weaving
59 NYLAH LYMAN The Beds We Make
61 HALSEY HYER Self-portrait as Interrupted Home Alone (1990) Synopsis
62 SHEERE LA PUMA When the Marriage Was Over
74 RODNEY GOMEZ Desert Cold; You Can Build a Person Out of the Desert
85 ISSA M. LEWIS Learning a Foreign Language
86 ADAM TAVEL The Fury of Paintbrushes
87 WILLIAM FARGASON Elegy with Shadows
100 EMILY PAIGE WILSON Vanity
101 ERIN ELIZABETH SMITH When You Ask If I’m Okay; Skin and Bones
104 BEN KLINE Graveside
116 ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT The Egg
117 GAGE SAYLOR Give Me the Trash-Lined Streets of Philly
118 EMMA AYLOR Absent Prayer
128 DAN FLIEGEL The English
Fiction
2 SETH GLECKMAN Sun God
10 RA ‘NIQUA LEE Tread Softly Here
35 DANIEL DONAGHY Underpass
50 BANZELMAN GURET A Plan’s a Plan
63 PATRICK DACEY The Queen Sea
76 ALEKSANDAR STEVIC The Dial Tone
89 THEO YUREVITCH Talisman Magic
120 RESHMI HEBBAR Remember That I Am Good
Book Reviews
130 MIRIAM MCEWEN Hearing Voices: The Mystery of Shared Grief in Tracey Lien’s All That’s Left Unsaid
133 STEPHEN D. CALDES Why Tell Tales: A Review of Erin Swan’s Walk the Vanished Earth
137 KEEN BUTTERWORTH A Question of Redemption: Gordon Van Ness’ James Dickey: A Literary Life
141 JASON DURHAM Life Without a Net: Keith Flynn’s and Charter Week’s Prosperity Gospel
Contributors
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