Issue 50

Nonfiction

J. A. Bernstein, “Before Dusk”
Kelsey Day, “Her Name Like a Question”
Timothy DeLizza, “Male Mentors”
Athena Dixon, “Mirror, Mirror”
Jennie B. Ziegler, “On Foundation Laying”

Translations

Jarid Arraes, “Mopeds Are for Ladies”
Hans Hagen, “bye”
Tatsuhiko Ishii, “Romance of Moon” and “Riot Police and Treetop Flowers”
Esther Jansma, “Potatology”
Tsang Kam Yin, “Repeated Dance”
Samuel Solleiro, “Civil War”
Mutsuo Takahashi, “In Praise of the Olive” and “The Architect’s Nephew”
Tomas Tranströmer, “Solitude” and “Out in the Open”
Manuel Vilas, “London” and “The Beech Forest”

Poetry

Ralph Angel, “it's harder to be patient”
Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio, “Index of Me”
Hannah Bonner, “Before the First”
Wendy Chen, “Eating Bitterness” and “Arrival”
Brandon Downing, “Sonnet (II)”
Patrick Dundon, “The Morning After a Really Good First Date”
Nathalie Handal, “Her Last Letter, Year after Year” and “History of Hurts”
Sara Kaplan-Cunningham, “Romance”
Vandana Khanna, “[The oracles say there is no hope]”
Nick Martino, “After Self-Portrait in Paris by Vincent van Gogh”
Cate Peebles, “Blue Moon Ouroboros”
Sampson Starkweather, “Survivor’s Glee” and “Nature (Boy Ric Flair) Poem”
Natalie Shapero, “Owner Surrender”
David St. John, “The Rain on Van Buren Street”
Bernardo Wade, “A Fox Appears”
Lloyd Wallace, “Evidence”

Interviews

Nikita Biswal, An Interview with Suketu Mehta
Molly Lambe, An Interview with Tess Gunty
Neha Mulay, An Interview with Ishion Hutchinson

Fiction

Ren Arcamone, “Assassin Snail”
Yvonne Cha, “The Drunkard”
Katie Curran, “Knit (9 Million Hits)”
Lillian Giles, “Droughts”
Janice Furlong, “Safety Check”
Theodore McCombs, “Alien vs. Bachelorette”
Amman Sabet, “Tranquilo”
E. P. Tuazon, “After Bigfoot”
Naomi Wood, “Wedding Day”

Hybrid

Haolun Xu, “Three Winds Passing Over Edison, New Jersey”
Na Mee, “Overboard”
Kristin Ito, “kiss kiss kiss”
John Cotter, “Norwich: Summer of 2017”

Cover

Raisa Nosova, photography by Cheng Gong