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Issue 27 | Fall 2022
Issue twenty-seven invites you to a chimeric gathering of wanders, misfits, rebels, playboys, and survivors.
Featuring entrancing new short fiction, poetry, CNF, translations, and art from Robert Glück, Julia Kohli (translated by Rob Myatt), Jasleena Grewal, Solomon Samson, Dominic Blewett, Laurie Stone, Stacey Levine, Nina Schuyler, James Warner, Carla Bessa (translated by Elton Uliana), Alvin Lu, Lorelei Bacht, Beatriz Rocha (translated by Grant Schutzman), Réka Nyitrai, David C. Hall, Rolla Barraq (translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp), Eva-Maria Sher, Cameron Morse, and Richard Hanus.
A Chinese Temple in California
Alvin Lu
Did the workmen who received the pieces carried by cart and mule know what they were doing? There would be, and still are, strict rules for feng shui. Did the delivery come with instructions? Or did the builders just go by their infallible memories?
“Proposal for the Construction of an Ethnic Strip Mall” by Alvin Lu in New Sinews
This is the wrong place. No one’s turning back, which is a kind of courage. Location! location! location!
Issue 20 | Summer 2019
Issue 20 features work by Luisa Valenzuela (translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz), Alvin Lu, J. Weintraub, Jessica Love, Keith Carver, Karen An-hwei Lee, Christopher Clubb, Mike Dressel, Jorge Enrique Botero (translated by David Feller Pegg), Talal Alyan, Carl-Christian Elze (translated by Caroline Wilcox Reul), Bijan Najdi (translated by Parisa Saranj), and Amy Forstadt. Cover art by Jerry Seguin.
Review: Sonata in K by Karen An-hwei Lee
By Alvin Lu
“Not a poet-novelist,” a fictional Franz Kafka calls himself in Sonata in K. This hard-to-classify work about the misadventures of Kafka and a 38-year-old polyglot Japanese American interpreter named K in Los Angeles, Amerika’s weirdest city, is also poet Karen An-hwei Lee’s first novel.
Contributor News: Alvin Lu
Alvin Lu (“Early Spring,” Issue 1) will be readingat the Bazaar Writers Salon, in San Francisco’s Richmond District.Sunday, October 5, 6 p.m.Bazaar Café5927 California Street, San Franciscoreading with Kim Addonizio and Solmaz Sharifhosted by Peter Kline
Alvin Lu reads an excerpt from Early Spring
Alvin Lu was born and lives in San Francisco. He attended Brown University, where he received an MFA in writing, and has worked as a journalist, a salaryman in Tokyo, and a publisher of manga. He is the author of a novel The Hell Screens, and has been at work on a...
Issue 1 | Fall 2013
Your Impossible Voice publishes brash and velvety new work from around the globe. The debut issue features new work from award winning authors and poets, including Jessica Hagedorn, Gillian Conoley, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Arisa White, and more.