36.2 Summer/Fall 2024

The 2023 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose

The 2023 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation

The 2023 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing

  • "Fishing for Holes in Water: On the Ecopoetics of Penda Diakité" by Constance Collier-Mercado

Fiction

  • "In the Shape of a Man Whose Feet Face Backwards" by Subraj Singh  
  • "Caribe Oriental" by Mercedes Estramil Translated from Spanish by Travis Price
  • "The Film" by R.M. Cooper
  • "Soup Party" by Han Chang
  • "Summer Dialogue #1" by Sam Schieren
  • "The Conversation Pit" by Aleksia To

Nonfiction

"A Dark Wood" by Stephanie Anderson
"The Listening Rooms" by Sarah Minor
"Dredging" by Asha Dore
"Truck Dance" by Anthony Barilla

Poetry

  • "Miriam" by Elizabeth Muscari 
  • "Kilimanjaro" by Lucas Gonzalez 
  • "Brothers" by Ben Chase 
  • "from Bark, Archive, Splinter",  "from Bark, Archive, Splinter" by Jay Gao 
  • "A Hundred Variations of the Same Landscape" by Gabriel Fine
  • "Islandic" by M. Cynthia Cheung
  • "Ellsworth Schist" by Allison Hutchcraft
  • "Devotion" by Aleks Zywicki
  • "Francisco De Goya and Other Lovers" by Liz Harms 
  • "The IUD", "Waiting for Water" by Kate Gaskin 
  • "Doppelgänger" by Dayna Patterson and Brenda Miller
  • "Hauck" by William Bonfiglio
  • "Translating Hamlet Into a Tissue of Clouds" by Heather Green
  • "Nnnnnnnhhhhhhhhhh! BS Verves!", "Ssssshhhhhhhitttttttt! Worms with PTSD Boff Fond, Fond, Fond Dames" by K. Silem Mohammad
  • "my dog liked your barbeque, Vern" by J. Peter Moore
  • "Geologic Figures" by Emma Wu 
  • "Boxing Day" by Caleb A.P. Parker
  • "?? (Singularity)" by Lizzy ? (Ke) Polishan
  • "Publishing Factory", "Silent Night 2", "Mountain Path" by Cho Ji Hoon Translated from Korean by Sekyo Nam Haines
  • "a land named revelry" by JK Anowe  
  • "Miraculous" by Ira Goga
  • "Origin" by Stephanie Yue Duhem
  • "[Dirt]", "The cables of the heart are tangled up with the night" by Roxana Crisólogo Correa Translated from Spanish by Kim Jensen and Judith Santopietro 
  • "Your Lot" by Caleb Braun 
  • "It’s Time", "Absence", "The First House" by Saadi Youssef Translated from Arabic by Khaled Mattawa 
  • "The Reservoir", "Fallen Tree" by Jalynn Harris
  • "At Some Point" by Tracy Kerr Laughlin
  • "[papa’s worst day ever]" by J. Wang Chu
  • "How to Seek Forgiveness" by Coleman Riggins
  • "Confetti" by Austin Rodenbiker

Creative and Critical Art Writing

  • "A Conversation with the Artist: Dr. Aisen Caro Chacin and Vicki Meek" by Vicki Meek 

Featured Art

Art Folio by Aisen Caro Chacin

Reviews and Interviews

  • "Haunting The Lyrical Trace: On Dorothea Lasky’s THE SHINING" by Adele Elise Williams
  • "The Distance From, Belonging To: A Review of Monica Youn’s From From" by Z.L. Nickels