31.2 Summer/Fall 2019

2018 Barthelme Prize

Something Clear by Sarah Minor (Winner)
Hunger by Yi Jiang (Honorable Mention)
some weather by Aliceanna Stopher (Honorable Mention)

2018 Translation Prize in Poetry

Translation of Matthias Göritz by Mary Jo Bang (Winner)
Translation of Polina Barskova by Valzhyna Mort (Winner)
Translation of Álvaro lasso by Kelsi Vanada (Honorable Mention)

2018 Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing

A Long Dull Shadow: Georg Baselitz's Legacy of Misogyny by Maura Callahan (Winner)

Fiction

Tributary by Jonathan Danielson
The Law of Diminishing Returns by Gbolahan Adeola
Generation Perestroika by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Appleseed: The Monstrous Birth by Matt Bell

Nonfiction

Whens by Chloe Garcia Roberts
Both Ways by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Deep Springs College by Theadora Walsh

Poetry

6 poems by Diane Seuss:

[OD'd on his Suboxone and not on purpose, opened in the kitchen dark a bottle]
[He called from San Francisco, I was nursing the baby, he said I have]
[You know what living means? Tits out, tits in the rain. Tits]
[Back then its hair was Cleopatraed but went toward witch, bach then when]
[Marry dull. Those who retain full access to their imaginations are crosshatched]
[How do you stand being so virtuous? My only vitue is my lack]

Unkindly Kind by Jane Wong
Sonnet in which we remain foolishly hopeful (or, obituary for the top soild) by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Glossary For What You Left Unsaid: Art by Aldo Amparán
3 Poems by Sharon Olds:

Blueberry Ballad
Morning Song
Cold Tahoe Today

Reader, I by Corey Van Landingham
Once We Were Dykes by M.K. Metz
Girl 6 by Joy Priest
Man by Justin Wymer
2 Poems by Cintia Santana

Grief, February
Ode to the J

If Tori Amos Were a Realtor by Maya Jewell Zeller
Walking Alone by the Riverbank Looking for Flowers by Du Fu (Tranl. by Gary Young & Yanwen Xu)
At the Border by Lu Lun (Transl. by Gary Young & Yanwen Xu)
Bone Catalog by Ruth Joffre
[To witness a selkie, owl-grandmother, grief] by Kevin Phan
Poem for the Year by Maggie Millner
Searching by Anthony Cody
When 49 of Our Family Were Murdered by Ian Spencer Bell
The Summer Forecast by Shelley Wong
Manmade Island by Cherry Pickman
Dear Michael by Philip Schaefer
2 Poems by Emilia Phillips:

The Only Thing I Learned from Working at an Italian Restaurant for that one Week when I was Eighteen Was
Memento Doloris

My Love by Rochelle Germond
Why Gear? by Jason Koo

Art

An Artist with a World Unto Itself: An Interview with Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt by Maria Brito
The Ecstasies of Love and Hate: Celeste Dupuy-Spencer's Painterly Transformations by Jess Dorrance & Erin Kimmel

Special Feature: A Ragbag, Curated by Justin Torres

3 Poems by Amber Atiya

in 2 months i've given 20 vials of the stuff
learning to speak english you consume a dozen mother tongues
learning to speak english i become an expert at signing hipaa forms with record speed

Polaroids of Photographs of Paintings of Film Stills by Brontez Purnell
from Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
2 Poems by Jaime Shearn Coan

Do the Math
I'm Sorry

We Can Pretend by Chelsey Johnson
Bald Headed Woman by Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela
Silver Sins by Mariam Rahmani
Moving to Los Angeles by Alex Irene Borinsky
2 Poems by Valentine Freeman

Memphis
I Love You

Reviews & Criticism

2 Reviews by Bruno Río

Unfamiliar Belonging: Bang, by Daniel Peña
Water is not a place: Henk Rossouw's Xamissa

'Brave, or lonely, or free enough to ask': Hoagland in Retrospect by Christopher Kempf
Greatness is All Around Us by Tony Hoagland