Spring 2024, Issue 38

Issue 38 includes:

A Symposium on the work of poet Reginald Shepherd, featuring seven poems by Shepherd and critical appraisals by National Book Award–finalist Tommye Blount, Rilke Prize–winner Rick Barot, PEN Open Book Margins Award–winner Timothy Liu, Guggenheim Fellow Paisley Rekdal, Lama Rod Owens, Camille Rankine, and Charles Stephens.

Translation Folios with work by South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, translated by Cindy Juyong Ok; Italian poet Vivian Lamarque, translated by Geoffrey Brock; German poet Jan Wagner, translated by David Keplinger; Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, translated by Khaled Mattawa.

New Poetry by Hurston/Wright Legacy Award–winner Myronn Hardy, Whiting Award–winner Diannely Antigua, Guggenheim Fellow Geoffrey Brock, Amy Lowell Fellow Rebecca Lindenberg, Rome Fellow Mark Halliday, Eric Gregory Award–winner James Conor Patterson, Alice Fay di Castagnola Award–winner Melissa Kwasny, Ruth Lilly Fellow Matthew Nienow, NEA Fellows Traci Brimhall and Chris Forhan, Iowa Poetry Prize–winner Stephanie Choi, and relative newcomers Mya Mateo Alexice, Katie Condon, Saúl Hernández, Dana Isokawa, James Jabar, Tyler Raso, and Cintia Santana.

New Fiction by Betty Gabehart Prize–winner Jennifer Militello, Fulbright Scholar Matthew Lawrence Garcia, Anthony M. Abboreno, Rebecca Entel, Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind, Randy F. Nelson, and Allyson Stack.

A New Essay by Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award–winner Hasanthika Sirisena.

Cover Art by Oakland-based artist Stephanie Syjuco.

  • Poetry
  • Allison Adair
  • Mya Matteo Alexice
  • Diannely Antigua
  • Jan Beatty
  • Cynthia Boersma
  • Traci Brimhall
  • Geoffrey Brock
  • James Brunton
  • Joseph J. Capista
  • Stephanie Choi
  • Emily Cinquemani
  • Andrew Collard
  • Katie Condon
  • Chris Forhan
  • Mark Halliday
  • Myronn Hardy
  • Dana Isokawa
  • James Jabar
  • Christen Noel Kauffman
  • Cindy King
  • Melissa Kwasny
  • Rebecca Lindenberg
  • Maja Lukic
  • Matthew Nienow
  • Carolyn Orosz
  • James Conor Patterson
  • Isaac Pickell
  • Carol Quinn
  • Tyler Raso
  • Cintia Santana
  • Rhett Iseman Trull
  • Laura Paul Watson
  • Fiction
  • Anthony M. Abboreno
  • Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind
  • Rebecca Entel
  • Matthew Lawrence Garcia
  • Jennifer Militello
  • Randy F. Nelson
  • Allyson Stack
  • NonFiction
  • Hasanthika Sirisena
  • Translation Folios
  • Kim Hyesoon (trans. Cindy Juyoung Ok)
  • Vivian Lamarque (trans. Geoffrey Brock)
  • Jan Wagner (trans. David Keplinger)
  • Saadi Youssef (trans. Khaled Mattawa)
  • Criticism
  • Rick Barot
  • Tommye Blount
  • Timothy Liu
  • Lama Rod Owens
  • Camille Rankine
  • Paisley Rekdal
  • Charles Stephens