42.4 Fall 2018

Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Jeni Bate, Dustin M. Hoffman, Cicily Bennion, Ali Rachel Pearl, Ruth Awad, Kristin Chang, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, and many more.

This project was supported [in part] by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Art Feature

Selections from the series Skyscapes for the Soul
Jeni Bate

Fiction

In Darkness Floating
Dustin M. Hoffman

Nonfiction

On Face Washing
Cicily Bennion
Trees, Familial
Ali Rachel Pearl

Poetry

The one where I beg
Ruth Awad
Customs
Kristin Chang
Facts about the orchid (兰)
Kristin Chang
Sonnet
Emily Pettit
Naked Eye
Christopher DeWeese
Witness
Chessy Normile
The Blue Side of a Broken Mirror
Hussain Ahmed
Nature and Chemistry of Love
Hussain Ahmed
Core of Sisters
Liz Robbins
Development of the Fraud
Kathryn Smith
From Shadow to Light
Kathryn Smith
Ration
Kathryn Smith
fieldnote
TR Brady
Ode to My Stretchmarks
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
Truth or Dare
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
Waves
William Evans
Deconstructing My Birth
Tarik Dobbs
Losing the Vinyl House
Nicole Stockburger
Birthday
Ellen Kombiyil
Pastoral
Ellen Kombiyil

Review

Review of Tunsiya/Amrikiya by Leila Chatti
Asa Drake

Interviews

Interview with Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
Cade Leebron

Interview with Danez Smith

Eliza Smith

Notes on Contributors