FOUR WAY REVIEW

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  • ISSUE 35

    ISSUE 35

    POETRY Sorrow by Megan Pinto Theodor Adorno in Los Angeles, 1941 by Grace Alvino Brusque Recital by Christopher Brean Murray I am the grass of the wind alley by Sarah…

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Latest Writing

  • INTERVIEW WITH K-Ming Chang

    INTERVIEW WITH K-Ming Chang

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    K-Ming Chang
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    I first read K-Ming Chang’s writing in 2018, back when I was Fiction Editor of Nashville Review. Her story, “Meals for Mourners/兄弟”, captured my attention with its embodied, elemental language and stirring portrait of family life. Since that time, Chang has written a novel, a chapbook, and a story collection, among other projects. Currently, she…

  • MONTHLY: Chapbook Conversation

    MONTHLY: Chapbook Conversation

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    The chapbook is a strange and protean form, flickering somewhere between long poem and short book, and though they get little love from reviewers, prize committees and large publishers, many of us write, publish and love them. So, in January, I sat down with three poets whose chapbooks I’ve really enjoyed, to talk with them…

  • INTERVIEW WITH Rosalie Moffett

    INTERVIEW WITH Rosalie Moffett

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    Rosalie Moffett
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    READ THE POEMS PAIRED WITH THIS INTERVIEW FWR: In my first read of “In Sound Mind”, I was struck by how you play with sound throughout the poem (such as the lines “Up there, sky-high,/ do you, as you go, know the feeling/ you slough?”). Can you speak about the growth of this poem? How…

POETRY

  • TWO POEMS by Alexa Luborsky

    TWO POEMS by Alexa Luborsky

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    Alexa Luborsky
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      I was the wet cloth that kept the phyllo damp. I was the rag that lifted and didn’t catchthe edges of things. I was lamplight.In another place, I was shaina maidel.Here, though, I was khokh- memoryand nots- space. I was khokhanots.I was the kitchen, a whole geographywith borders of mother and step-father. Bubbie was nowherehere. She…

  • JANUARY MONTHLY: INTERVIEW WITH MARIA ZOCCOLA

    JANUARY MONTHLY: INTERVIEW WITH MARIA ZOCCOLA

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    Maria Zoccola
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    Any reader with even a cursory understanding of Greek mythology will recognize her name: Helen of Troy—daughter of Zeus, the most beautiful woman in the world, a “face that launched a thousand [war]ships.” Now take that image and fast forward about, oh, 3200 years, and you get Maria Zoccola’s raised fist of a debut, Helen…

  • DECEMBER MONTHLY: INTERVIEW WITH JIMIN SEO

    DECEMBER MONTHLY: INTERVIEW WITH JIMIN SEO

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    Jimin Seo
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    Jimin Seo is the author of OSSIA, his debut collection of poetry. Winner of the The Changes Press Book prize, judged by Louise Glück, OSSIA blends the voices of the dead with the living, resulting in a symphonic exploration into migration, dislocation, familial bonds, love, and loss. Seo textures his manuscript with poems in both…

FICTION

  • TOO BEAUTIFUL TO BE BELIEVED by April Vazquez

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    April Vazquez
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    “Teo, Teo, Teo,” Álvaro sings into the phone. “You’re not going to believe what I did today. Even after I tell you you’re still not going to believe it.” His voice is all keyed up, like he’s calling to tell me it’s my turn to collect on la tanda. Chingao, I think. Now what? “You…

  • LEFTOVERS by Leslie Pietrzyk

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    Leslie Pietrzyk
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    My English teacher said yesterday there’s no gift that doesn’t come with chains. No one was listening because she’s always spouting stupid crap but she, right at that exact second, started giving me her sharp-eye and I wrote it down and she smiled this tight way that prickled me. I think she knows who my…

  • FRANCIE AND SAMANTHA by Janice Obuchowski

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    Janice Obuchowski
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    In her early 20s, she left the Midwest for Los Angeles, thereby startling her parents, who’d assumed that once her schooling was over she’d settle into her adult life as a schoolteacher in Indiana, find a husband, and raise some children. But her time at the University of Michigan had broadened her sense of life’s…

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