Issue Number 8, 2017

An Extract from The Taletellers
fiction by Peter Caputo

Feature: Six poems from the Spanish of Jorge Luis Borges
translated by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes

Borges Comes to Dinner
a reminiscence by Flaminia Ocampo

Literary Despatches:

• Buenos Aires, Argentina by Salvador San Juan
• Seoul, South Korea by Soojin Kim

art and a color postcard tuck-in by Rikki Ducornet

Sonnets on the Dole
a sequence by Umit Singh Dhuga

Poetry:

• Continuum by Jennifer Barber
• Warm Springs and Rendezvous Ditch by Jeff Griffin
• Imitation of Silence by Jayce Russell
• Spring Equinox and So many bridges crossed, as evening falls by Ben Mazer
• Mud and Stool by Greg Lawless
• Self Portrait as the Rip Current and I Am Not a Religious Man by Ari Wolff
• 09.27.2018 by Melissa Castillo Planas
• Moccasins by Larry Spotted Crow Mann
• Hudson Line and Do-Right Man, from Ravage and Snare by Matthew Salyer
• The Futility of Lordly Assistance by El Habib Louai
• Selves Gone By by Philip Nikolayev
• Meet me by the purple fence by Meia Geddes
• Proverbs by Daniel Bosch
• For Phyllis by Elisabeth Horan

Butterfly, a story by Melissa T. Zobel

Short fiction from Kasia Buczkowska, Austin Sanchez-Moran, Meghan Lamb and Joanna C. Valente

Original artwork by Cat Dossett, Paul A. Rowe, Don Stewart and Stanislav Marmysh

A stand-alone chapbook insert, Against Darkness, with new poems by Ali Znaidi and art by Erika B. Hess

Essays:

• Fred Marchant on Cathy Strisik's The Mistress and Max Ritvo's Four Reincarnations
• Thomas Graves on Ben Mazer, Poetry, and Painting

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