Latest Writing
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INTERVIEW WITH Christian Kiefer
Christian Kiefer is the director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Ashland University and is the author of The Infinite Tides (Bloomsbury), The Animals (W.W. Norton), One Day Soon Time Will Have No Place Left to Hide (Nouvella Books), and Phantoms (Liveright/W.W. Norton). Photo by Christophe Chammartin. FWR: Let’s start with your pieces for Literary Hub, where…
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INTERVIEW WITH Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a multimedia artist, poet, and writer. Griffiths is the author of Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books 2010), The Requited Distance (The Sheep Meadow Press 2011), Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose 2011), which was selected for the 2012 Inaugural Poetry Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and…
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INTERVIEW WITH Kelly Grace Thomas
FWR: To start, I want to give you an image of my reading of Boat Burned. I was getting a pedicure and reading. I think part of what had me so enraptured in your writing in that moment was that I was already in a place where I was thinking about my body, and the…
POETRY
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PARIS by Elly Bookman
At seventeen I gazed a good ten minutes at Saint Catherine Labouré’s incorruptible palms around a rosary. Soon I’d learn to drive a manual transmission, the backward N of the ascending gears. The still-war had been on for more than a year, and there was something so similarly earned in her un-atrophied grip. I…
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FLEVATO by Richard Siken
We are going to poison the rats, announced the Transit Authority. They had posted fliers but no one was reading them. The subway was crowded. I was late and trying to think diagonally, up and around the corners. I wasn’t used to it. I grew up in a flat land where there was no descending.…
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TWO POEMS by Alexa Luborsky
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…
FICTION
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The Landlord by Peace Adzo Medie
“Asanka,” sneered Emma’s landlord, his bony frame planted in front of the staircase that led to her apartment. It was dawn and she had just returned from walking with her friend, Martin, to the bus stop. He had tutored her throughout the night, in preparation for the entrance exam that she would take in a…
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PIVOT by Wendy J Fox
In the office, coworkers Sabine and Michael sat quietly at their cubicles. In the office, there was flux. For example, sometimes the temperature waffled between tropical and arctic…
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THE OCEAN INDOORS by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Remember that time the ocean came in through my bedroom window? Remember that time I woke up choking on sea salt spray, my bed a boat on the sea that had replaced the stained gray carpet?
TRANSLATION
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AND WHAT HAPPENS IF I WANT TO NAME EVERYTHING?, ASKS THE FEMALE DISCIPLE by Mayra Santos-Febres trans. Seth Michelson (from SPANISH)
what happens if i want to speak childrensay belovedembrace this solitude? the signs will kill you, warn far-sighted voices,the parallel paths of the law will kill you many women have tried and failedtheir names are the names of names they come from everywhereare written in every tonguesing from every tribe of the species the voices…
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from RED MELANCHOLIA by Helena Boberg trans. Johannes Göransson (from SWEDISH)
They have grabbed me opened up cut loose reshaped my nature spared a cypher from being extinguished begun a protracted illness The room tightened brought my life sphere one step closer to my body underneath was a…
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Rajiv Mohabir: FROM “SWAGGERMAN, FLYMOUTH” A DEVIANT TRANSLATION
Introduction by Rajiv Mohabir: The poems that follow are from a forthcoming manuscript. These poems are a type of translation of a Caribbean chutney song called “Na Manu” by the Surnamese singer Bidjwanti Chaitoe Rekhan in the early 1960s. The song “Na Manoo Na Manoo Re” from the 1961 Bollywood film Gunga Jamuna in which Lata…
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