SCR Volume 55.1 Fall 2022 Is Here!

November 17, 2022

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

26 MARIA JOSÉ CARO Beirut

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

106 GLENN BERTRAM The Gig

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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