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CONTENTS

Poetry

ALIYAH COTTON Dark Matter

ERIKA ECKART Reaper; Into the Woods; On contingency plans when one cannot release one’s young into the wild

SHARON KENNEDY-NOLLE Bad Still Life With Bob Ross; Kopack and KFC

CARSON ELLIOT Murfreesboro: Redux

STELLA WONG sonnet for pan jinlian

G.C. WALDREP Wilderness of Causes

ENEIDA ALCALDE Daughter’s Grief; Ring of Fire

PROSPER C. ÌFÉÁNYÍ The Last Image of Mercy

GRACE EZRA More Than Ever

ROSS WHITE Ode to the Fabulously Wealthy

ALLISON FIELD BELL You Burn Me

SARA BURGE Luck

JO BEAR Family Cross-Section: Mother; Unwilded

WAYNE CHAPMAN The Butterfly Garden

DANIELLE SHORR Ode to the Walmart Claw Machines

STEFANIE KIRBY Coronary; Traffic

BERNADETTE GEYER Explaing Cremation to Our Daughter at the Dinner Table

JOSEPH BYRD Haunting

LANA SPENDL Through the Window

COLLIN KELLEY Ev’ry time we say goodbye

ALEX LEE Lament for the Doe

EBEB E.B. BEIN Mother’s Day

SAM SZANTO The Spider and the Fly

STEVE DENEHAN Dressed to Go Out

KAISA ULLSVIK MILLER Last Summer

Fiction

ERIK HARPER KLASS The Phenomenology of Leaving

PRACHI KAMBLE The Divers

MAURICE IRVIN Ryan Number Three

BENJAMIN MYERS Wakefield

CYNTHIA NOONEY Sterling Recruit

RYAN LIVINGSTON Mr. Gorski’s Science Club

MATT CASHION Reunions, Atrocious Manners, the Atlanta Airport

MANDIRA PATTNAIK All My Old and New Selves

SUZANNE MANIZZA ROSZAK First Night at Fern’s Spectacular Twenty-Four-Hour Diner

A.M. YANG Something Special

Creative Nonfiction

ANNA B. MOORE You Will Never Be Happy Again, 1986

MARY GRIMM Coming Back from the Dark

 

Contents

Poetry

NATALIE GIARRATANO Farmer’s Almanac: Wildfire Outlook

LAURA VOGT Folklore of Past Lives

MARÍA ESQUINCA Dream In Which I Return Home; Dream in Which My Father Ask For Forgiveness; My Mother Crawls Out of The Ocean

DANIEL OOI My Christian Grandfather’s Taoist Funeral 

ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT The Secret Life of Wisteria; I Carry Wisteria In My Chest

JENNIFER GIVHAN Order of Operations ((or the Viral Equation that “Broke” the Internet) or Mothering Through Chronic/Mental Illness); My Daughter & My Daughter & I Test Positive for Covid

JAVIER SANDOVAL The Last Dozen Drizzled-City Nights

CHARLES BYRNE Everything happens for a reason

ZACHARIAH CLAYPOLE WHITE Medical History as Creation Myth

SHAUN TURNER The Bull Moose Bluff Charges

KENIA CANO Stone;Fiesta

MEGAN J. ARLETT Alhambra Incantation; August Afternoon in the Olive Orchards

JOHN T. HOWARD Our Father

JULIE FUNDERBURK Shoes

MEGHAN STERLING Love Poem for My Husband at 4 AM

JOSH LEFKOWITZ Forty-One Years

EMILY LAKE HANSEN Baby Got Back But It Won’t Fit In The Seat

ROBBIE Q. TELFER Pachyderm

AMORAK HUEY Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Indiana Jones

SARAH BROCKHAUS To the Cockroach

ANGIE MACRI Findings

JEFF NEWBERRY Word Problem

DOUG RAMSPECK River Birch

Fiction

BRADLEY BAZZLE Each Unique Specimen 

LESLIE PIETRZYK Girls Like That End Up Fine

MATT LUMBARD Big River, little river

M.O. WALSH The Staggered

WILLIAM WALKER Chemin de Dieu

ROBERTO ABAD If You Think About It, It’s Not So Bad SCR Series in Latin American Translation 

BHAVIKA SICKA Mooring

VASILIOS MOSCHOURIS The Impact

CLAYTON BRADSHAW-MITTAL Carolina Demon Story

DENNIS MCFADDEN Territorial Imperatives

S.J. LAURO Snake Luck 

Book Reviews

SCOTT GOULD One Foot Here, One Foot There: Khem K. Aryal’s The In-Betweeners 

JON SEALY Implacably Real: Ron Rash’s The Caretaker 

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

Our spring issue includes fiction and poetry by authors Daniel Wallace, George Singleton, Evelyn Berry, Anne Marie Rooney, and many more.

This issue also announces the winners of the fourth annual Ronald Moran Prize in Fiction and Poetry:

Poetry: Evelyn Olmos, “House of Mirrors” (SCR 55.1)

Fiction: Banzelman Guret, “A Plan’s a Plan” (SCR 55.1)

Contents

Poetry

1 MARIA ZOCCOLA the wrongness lies, she said,; ten percent

14 EVELYN BERRY the trans archive self-immolates

16 LUCIAN MATTISON Evacuation Orders

31 JENNA GOLDSMITH Let’s Contribute to a Community Free of Sexual Misconduct

34 CASSANDRA WHITAKER A Wolf Named Kyle

43 KENTON K. YEE Pompeii Casts

44 DANIELLE KOTRLA Tour of Grief; Elm Street

61 RONDA PISZK BROATCH Tonight, You Play Your Country Western Records Backwards

62 DAN ALBERGOTTI Here, Where Men Sit

79 PATRICK KINDIG Tropical Depression

80 ULYSES RAZO Poem Convincing You to Leave Your Husband

91 CARSON COLENBAUGH Passing the Dove Fields, I Think of Those Who Came Before; Economies of Scale

99 ROMANA IORGA what short wicks / we fuel with our blood

114 JENNY MOLBERG Initiation in White; Jenny | Jennifer: Aries Season

129 JEFF WILLIAM ACOSTA Fireflies

132 CANDICE KELSEY Ave, Verum Corpus

134 ANNE MARIE ROONEY That last year in Pittsburgh; Braid

141 ROXANNE HALPINE WARD The Medical Editor on Photo Albums; The Medical Editor Lies Down

Fiction

3 DANIEL WALLACE The Stork

18 YOUN ROURKE The World a Stage

33 ADAM MCOMBER Signs of a House Haunting

35 JEFF EWING Our Erosion

48 M.E. KOPP Timber

64 JAMIE BLACK Sparrow Trapped in Crashing Plane

81 GEORGE SINGLETON Wild Me

94 REBECCA ORCHARD Small Hours

101 TADEO PALACIOS VALVERDE Not Long Until Dawn

118 BILL GAYTHWAITE Certain Healing Properties

136 MICHAEL DON Something to Hold

143 T. S. MCADAMS Forsaking Paul Bunyan

Book Reviews

146 CLARE MULLANEY Disability and Wonder in Emily Rose Cole’s Thunderhead

149 MIRIAM MCEWEN Love Is a Horror: How Adam McOmber’s Fantasy Kit Centers Queer Emotion

151 SADIE HOAGLAND A Midwest with Layers: Jenny Robertson’s Hoist House

154 ADAM MILLION Buy a Membership: Wandering through Rubble Square by Adam Tavel

157 BRIAN MCGRATH Worldlessness and Love: Walt Hunter’s Some Flowers

161 SARAH BLACKMAN When Skies Are Also Walls: Oindrila Mukherjee’s The Dream Builders

Contributors

164

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

145