Issue 31/2 is a special double issue, featuring nationally
renowned American writers and nine translation folios with
generous selections of work by internationally known writers from
Argentina, French-Speaking Belgium, Germany, Greece,
Mexico, Poland, the, South Korea, and the Galician Region of
Spain.
The issue includes:
Poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa; National Book
Award finalist and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Carl
Phillips; Guggenheim Fellows Terese Svoboda, David Kirby, and
Mark Halliday; two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Maureen
Seaton; Rockefeller Foundation Fellow Pablo Medina; Lenore
Marshall Prize winner Craig Morgan Teicher; Kresge Arts Foundation
and Kundiman Fellow Matthew Olzmann; Ohioana Book Award winner
Ruth Awad; Kundiman Prize winner Janine Joseph; Alice Fay Di
Castagnola Award winner G. C. Waldrep; Lambda Literary Award
finalist Randall Mann; as well as Michael Bazzett, Jehanne
Dubrow, Sarah Gridley, Joy Katz, Hailey Leithauser,
Claire Wahmanholm, and many others.
Fiction by Maxim Loskutoff, an NPR Best Book author and New York
Times Editor's Pick; as well as by Cara Blue Adams, Gerri
Brightwell, Aidan Forster, Ryan Habermeyer, Nihal Mubarak,
and Carolyn Oliver.
Nonfiction by PEN Center USA Literary Award and California Book
Award winner Victoria Chang, art and literature critic Robert
Archambeau (writing on the "spirituality" of Andy Warhol), and
relative newcomer Caroline Plasket. Translation Folios with
poetry by Filipino poet Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (translated by
Kristine Ong Muslim), Mexican poet Cesar Cañedo (translated by
Whitney DeVos), (translated by Jennifer Kronovet), Franco-Belgian poet
Guy Goffette (translated by Marilyn Hacker), Greek poet Dimitra
Kotoula (translated by Maria Nazos), Polish poet Ewa Lipska
(translated by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, South
Korean poet Moon Bo Young (translated by Hedgie Choi),
Galician/Spanish poet Chus Pato (translated by Erín Moure), and
Argentinian fiction writer, journalist, and political martyr Rodolfo
Walsh (translated by Cindy Schuster).
The cover features work by New York-based artist and Gordon Parks
Foundation fellow Derrick Adams, whose work has shown nationally and
been featured on the television shows Empire and Insecure.
