POETRY EDITOR’S NOTE

POETRY
CYNTHIA CRUZ  Twilight / The Riddle of the Modern World / Ether
KWAME DAWES  Softly Falling
BRANDON SOM  from Asawa’s Loop
TARFIA FAIZULLAH  Ode to Maa / Alien of Extraordinary Spelling Ability / Dear Jen,
HELENE ACHANZAR  La Farge / O my loneliness, your arms are outstretched / The Post-Song Era
MARIANNE BORUCH  The Leaf Studies
MATTY LAYNE GLASGOW  hyperpastoral, or softball pastoral / hyperpastoral, or hyperphagia
JENNY JOHNSON  Whelm / Whelm / Whelm
CYDNI THOMPSON  Personal History / The Old Usher Viola Is Dead
JENNIE MALBOEUF  The Bible Isn’t Kind to Dogs

FICTION
OLANIYI OMIWALE  Parenthesis
SHAAN SACHDEV  The Discomposures of Solomon Shah
LAURIE LATHEM  The Ring
DOUGLAS SILVER  The Children’s Museum

NONFICTION
Reflections
NATALIE BAKOPOULOS  The Breaking of That Sea
LAURENCE DE LOOZE  A Mill Between Two Worlds

Testimonies
L. F. KHOURI  The Quiet Task of Speaking Our Palestine

Reckonings
YERRA SUGARMAN  Because Here

Reader’s Notebook
LEATH TONINO  Becoming Nobody: An Essay in Quotes

BRAZILIAN BADLANDS: SEVEN WOMEN WRITING THE BRAZILIAN NORTHEAST

guest edited by Bruna Dantas Lobato
BETHÂNIA PIRES AMARO  Bye-Bye, Electricity
translated by Padma Viswanathan
JARID ARRAES  Mothers
translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato & Julia Sanches
CAMILA SANTOS  Fifty Words
LUCIANY APARECIDA  Bull-Butcher
translated by Juliana Barbassa
MARÍLIA ARNAUD  Saturday
translated by Ilze Duarte
RACHEL DE QUEIROZ  Tangerine Girl
translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato
MARIA VALÉRIA REZENDE  Gray and Red
translated by Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey

REDISCOVERIES
WILLIAM HAZLITT  The Judgment of the Public

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

COVER ART  
GUSTAVO AMARAL