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MAY INTERVIEW WITH SOPHIA TERAZAWA
When readers first meet the narrator of Sophia Terazawa’s novel, Tetra Nova, published by Deep Vellum Publishing in March, they have just been trampled by an elephant, returning to consciousness inside what seems to be the body of a panda. Soon after, the narrator tumbles again, this time awakening as Emi, a young girl with…
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FEBRUARY MONTHLY: INTERVIEW with CLAIRE HOPPLE
From the first sentence of Claire Hopple’s latest novel, Take It Personally, you know you’re in for a ride—in this specific case, you’re sidecar to Tori, who has just been hired by a mysterious and unnamed entity to trail a famous diarist. Famous locally, at least. What sort of locality produces a “famous diarist”? One…
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JANUARY MONTHLY: INTERVIEW WITH MARIA ZOCCOLA
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…
POETRY
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ODE TO THE LAUGHING DOVE by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad
Memory trundles across her face, rippling beneath her eyes like a loose thread pulled, pleating the fabric skin behind it, on the rare occasion a nest call hums in the background of a series maman watched as a child: it was the musa, ku taghi? bird, she’d explain when she found an episode online, a…
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TWO POEMS from Rosalie Moffett
from TO HEAR A WAR FROM FAR AWAY This is the beginning, I am told, if we let it be. Arrests if you disagree. Deportations. Sacrifice, I am moved again to think, must come from how small we have been in the face of the enormity (the trembling ground, heartache, the sound a barge makes,…
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AT THE PUNK BAR IN ASHEVILLE by Nick Soluri
hundreds of thousands of bubbles spill over the rim of the glass my lover drinks from. Of course, I love this about the bar, the way they pour beer too fast so the foam comes up heavily, all at once. Possibility requires mess, someone had said to me once. I was thinking of a topiary…
FICTION
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THE JUNIPER 3 by Trudy Lewis
No one even remembered our dad’s sad song until Tate brought it back on TikTok. The angst and the ecstasy. The emo vocals and the math rock chord progressions. The long and whining bridge between curt, accusatory verses. My mother killed me My father ate me My sister gathered up my bones I’d heard it…
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FALL FOR IT by Claire Hopple
After they escort us out, we are told to wait here. The here being a square of sidewalk. If you could see the two of us on this sidewalk square. Trying to maintain appearances. It’s a delicate operation. A heavy quiet. Some convenience store employees switch off who gets to peer out the window at…
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GIFTS by Samantha Neugebauer
Marie and Ms. Simpkin’s unexpected meeting on the park’s northwest corner got their lunch off to a bad start. Neither felt quite ready to commit themselves to conversation, yet what else could they do? They would need to proceed around the gated park and down Irving Place together as if the ten minutes of solitude…
TRANSLATION
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SLUMROYAL by Yahya Hassan, trans. Jordan Barger
INFECTIOUS INSANITY AMONG TODAY’S MEN AND WOMEN WORRYFREE FARMERS ENTWINE THEMSELVES WITH DIRT CATTLE AND COUNTRY WIVES NEPOTISM AND INBREEDING GO HAND IN HAND NOT JUST WITH THE ROYAL POLICE BUT ALSO RECRUITING OFFICERS AND MARINE MINISTERS AND CORVETTE CAPTAINS AND FIELD MARSHALS AND FIELD MISTRESSES REQUISITIONED FROM THE RESERVES MISERABLE SOULS DIG THEIR OWN…
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ECOPOETRY FROM JAPAN with Ryoichi Wago and Rumiko Kora, trans. Judy Halebsky & Ayako Takahashi
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION by Judy Halebsky THREE POEMS by Rumiko Kora, trans. Judy Halebsky & Ayako Takahashi FOUR POEMS by Ryoichi Wago, trans. Judy Halebsky & Ayako Takahashi
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INTRODUCTION TO KORA RUMIKO & WAGO RYOICHI by Judy Halebsky
FIVE POEMSby Ryoichi Wago, trans. Judy Halebsky & Ayako Takahashi THREE POEMSby Rumiko Kora, trans. Judy Halebsky & Ayako Takahashi This folio shares recent translations from two Japanese poets, Kora Rumiko (1932-2021) and Wago Ryoichi (1968-). Kora’s poems are from the second half and 20th century, and Wago’s were written following the 2011 earthquake, tsunami,…
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