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Issue 27 | Fall 2022

Nov 1, 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.

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The Gorge

Nov 1, 2022

James Warner

“I remember buying Guy Dieppe’s novel—at a bookstall beside the Seine, one spring afternoon—more clearly than I recall my first reading of it. It included some enjoyable phrases, which I now forget, but made no impression otherwise.”

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Issue 16 | Winter 2018

Jan 16, 2018

Featuring work by Clemens J. Setz (translated by Susan Thorne), Sara Kachelman, James Warner, Tahseen Béa, Dan Morey, Daniel Rivas, Jasper Henderson, Luise Maier (translated by Frances Jackson), Justice McPherson, Dahna Cohen-Schwartz, James Kramer, Karla Reimert (translated by Patty Nash), Marina Massenz, (translated by Johanna Bishop), Iacyr Anderson Freitas (translated by Desirée Jung), Luisa A. Igloria, Rey-Philip Genaldo, and Dallas Woodburn. Cover art by Mattina Blue.

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Reception Theory

Jan 15, 2018

By James Warner

Is there intelligence out there, or will we always be alone? Once, I longed to make contact. I felt a thrill each time the radio telescope in our observatory picked up an unexplained fast burst, that buzz of are-we-the-first-ever-to-connect-with-an-extraterrestrial?

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases”

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