Our August issue features poems about places and experiences that make us question who we are. In “Days of a Thousand Weathers I: An Epistolary,” Angela Narciso Torres and Lúcia Leão write about the loss of routine: “Little things— // pruning roses, salting a stew, / how the mailbox creaked open.” And in “Transmogrification,” James K. Zimmerman writes about becoming something preserved “for someone / to discover and blast away / in search of clay or gold.”
Still, despite the loss of time, youth, teeth, or even shared humanity, read Vol. 24, Issue 3 to be reminded how people are unique, distinct as a voice that, as George Looney writes, “embodies what we remember.” Gabriela Halas writes about a “west coast bungalow still occupied / by kids who are who we used to be.” And Andrea Rodriguez writes about being “In Between”: “like recovery / Like pending confirmation.”
Our August issue features a collaborative poem by Angela Narciso Torres and Lúcia Leão, as well as poems by Yehoshua November, Andrea Rodriguez, George Looney, Megan Merchant, John-Michael Bloomquist, Barbara Daniels, Gabriela Halas, Rob Cook, Suzanne Allen, Guinotte Wise, Amy Soricelli, V.P. Loggins, Sarah Lilius, Anne Yarbrough, Derek N. Otsuji, Hannah Jane Weber, Margaret D. Stetz, James K. Zimmerman, and Ann Pelletier. We also feature Teresa E. Gallion’s review of i am the rage by Dr. Martina McGowan and Michael Maiello’s review of Glass Bikini by Kristin Bock.
