SCR Volume 56.1 Fall 2023 Is Here!

December 13, 2023

Our fall issue includes fiction and poetry from Maggie Mitchell, Sean Padriac McCarthy, Rachel Neve-Midbar, Maryam Ghafoor, and many more!

 

Contents

Poetry

1 MARYAM GHAFOOR Turning Metal

3 JENN BLAIR They Take

23 SAMANTHA MARTIN-BIRD Wherever You Go; Siri; âmôwak ka watistwanihkaketwaw

33 VALERIE A. SMITH Application for Angels; Queen and Slim

36 KURT OLSSON Note to an Old Friend; Heart Like a Dog

52 MATTHEW VALADES Kevin the Very Large Octopus; Parakeet

54 DORSEY CRAFT Since You Had a Baby; Taxidermy

71 STEVEN REIGNS Hair

72 STEVEN PAN Distance, for Penguins; Self-Portrait: Oil on Canvas: Van Gogh: 1889

76 RACHEL NEVE-MIDBAR Yellow Jacket; Quilting; Speaking of Women

97 TIWALADEOLUWA ADEKUNLE in relief, in wonder

98 BEN GRONER III The End of the World

107 LEN LAWSON Interlude

108 SARA MOORE WAGNER What Mothers Do

120 LEVI J. MERICLE I Am Disgrace

122 JENNIFER FAYLOR Davy Jones’ Locker

139 DANIEL ROMO Produce; Acupressure

142 JUSTIN CARTER Self-Portrait with Missing Tooth

143 MATTHEW SIEGEL Steak

161 VINCENT ANTONIO RENDONI Istanbul, Winter; Istanbul, Spring

Fiction

5 MAGGIE MITCHELL Tethered

27 JD DEBRIS My Name Is Robert

39 KATHERINE VONDY Prufrock’s

58 MATTHEW TORRALBA ANDREWS To Make Him Happy

81 KARIN KILLIAN The Yellow Door

100 GRACE GLASS Queens and Pawns

110 CAITLIN BRODERICK Corpus Luteum

123 ANTHONY GOMEZ III Phantoms

145 SEAN PADRIAC MCCARTHY Something Salvaged

Book Reviews

164 CANDACE G. WILEY A Passel of: Monic Ductan’s Daughters of Muscadine

167 STEPHEN D. CALDES Flashing, Flashing…Lights, Lights: Matthew Vollmer’s All of Us Together in the End

170 COLLIN KELLEY Redemption Verse: Steven Reigns’s A Quilt for David

173 SCOTT GOULD Brave New Worlds: Stephen Hundley’s The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First