Issue Number 7, 2017

Anonymous Raincoats:
on the Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney
and Tomaž Šalamun in Translation
an essay by David Blair

Late in November
a story by Conor Robin Madigan

Looking Back in Lisbon
Cristina Baptista reflects on the literary past and future of Portugal

Detroit, Circa 20teens
by Paul D. Blumer;
a subterranean turnstile of disco and dearth—
an in medias res renaissance of rehashed ruin and romance.

Literary Despatches:

• Lisbon, Portugal by Scott Laughlin
• Tunis, Tunisia by Ali Znaidi

A Romantic Melancholy Trio, translated by Michael Ferber:

• To the Muse (Alla Musa, Sonnetti 11)
• by Ugo Foscolo, from the Italian
• The Leaf (La feuille)
  by Antoine Vincent Arnault, from the French
• The Last Leaf (La dernière feuille)
• by Théophile Gautier, also from French

Poetry:

• Living By Example, All Life Is Furniture, and Holy, Holy
  by Kristen Bulger
• Maria's House for Dinner, Madrid
  by Mollie Chandler
• you can see it
  by James Stotts
• My Great-Grandfather's Toes
  by Abigail Adams Elias
• from an untitled mural (after Darwish)
  by Jesús Castillo
• Lethe, Thebes and Moon River
  by George Kalogeris
• First Spring Days on a Basketball Court and Free Variation on Yehuda Amichai
  by David Blair
• At the Crossroads and Inside the Marble Drawer of Oblivion
  by Mike Riello
• The little cafe by the tiny river and Home, where houses flicker like candleflames
  by Ben Mazer

Original illustrations by Ágnes Győrfi, Arghavan Khosravi, Edward McGowan and Lawrence Mascia

Photography by Milan Kovacs and Lauren O'Donnell

A stand-alone chapbook insert comprising three new poems by Jack Hanson

Essays:

• Minorities Gone Global by Xurxo Borrazás
• Mazer's Spirit, an extract from Ben Mazer and the New Romanticism by Thomas Graves

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