This new collection by Chad Hanson is populated with interesting characters in the tradition of Edgar Lee Master’s Spoon River Anthology or Dave Etter’s Sunflower County.
New from Chad Hanson: This Human Shape
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Michelle Lewis reviews Prop in DrunkenBoat
Readers, if you order your poetry strictly off the standard menu, Grace Shuyi Liew’s Prop (Ahsahta Press, 2016) is not for you.
From Dick Cluster: “Fictions of the Cuban Diamond”
Two New Translations By Dick Cluster in Words Without Borders
The Burning Hour: A New Novel By Jessica Barksdale Inclan
“Maria Romero Rodriguez Spies on the Oligarchy” by Kent Monroe in Mandala Journal
“One of the Men” by Lana Spendl in storySOUTH
New From Daniel Borzutzky: The Performance of Becoming Human
New From Lauren Camp: One Hundred Hungers
“It’th a Beautiful World” by Kent Monroe in Gravel
“Playing With Dolls” by Monica Macansantos in Day One
Abeer Hoque Awarded NYFA Fellowship
Abeer Hoque has been awarded a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for a sample of her manuscript, Olive Witch. Olive Witch, a memoir, is scheduled for publication in 2016 by HarperCollins India. For the past 29 years, the New York Foundation for the Arts...
Voice Clocks by Chen Li, translated by Ting Wang in inTranslation
Available Now: Loquela by Carlos Labbé
Loquela, the fourth novel from Carlos Labbé — and his second translated into English — is available now from Open Letter. Loquela is translated by Will Vanderhyden who previously translated Labbé's Navidad & Matanza.From the publishers:At a basic level, this book...
2016 Pushcart Nominees
We at Your Impossible Voice are thrilled to announce this year's nominations for the Pushcart Prize. The Origin of the Species by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa...
Love Lets Us Down by Suzanne Heagy
Congratulations to Suzanne Heagy whose novel Love Lets Us Down was published by All Nations Press. From Amazon: Love Lets Us Down is a humorous look at broken hearts and doomed love. For a single day, newlywed Ghosts haunt a room in an aging hotel, the Meridian Inn....
“MEMENTO MORI” / Bobby Neel Adams @ Gspot GALLERY
“The Road to Alpullu” by Aysegul Savas in Guernica
“Amina’s Friend” by Raymund P. Reyes in Expanded Horizons
Two Lyric Essays by Chen Li, translated by Ting Wang
Three New Stories by Cristina Vega
Cristina Vega has new work appearing in Body Parts Magazine, Bird's Thumb, and Person Suit, an anthology from Dreaming Big Publications. Cristina's story "Neither/Nor" appeared in Your Impossible Voice #8, Summer 2015.
Better Than War: A New Collection from Siamak Vossoughi
“Rhapsody in Black and White” appearing in Beltway Poetry Quarterly
Violent Outbursts: A New Collection of Flashes From Thaddeus Rutkowski
“Five Arrows” by Heinz Insu Fenkl in The New Yorker
By Heinz Insu Fenkl Yongsu and I launched the flat-bottomed boat from a muddy part of the river I didn’t recognize. It seemed the bank of the river had moved much closer to the village, though I knew it hadn’t rained much that year. We took our places and, as Yongsu...
Darren C. Demaree’s “Eat the Hummingbird #10” in Houseguest Magazine
By Darren C. Demaree The ego that ridesthe just-felt spasms of heatfrom the sun’s last lightdoesn’t disappearonce the roof’s edge becomes the limitof our vantage point. We will inventwhole other worldswith a thousand different suns,
Smeary Flowers, 1983 by Lauren Camp in Hobart
By Lauren Camp All I wanted was the haze of a worn gown of sleep after the scrape of that honey-sipped night. I laid backon the seat to the space around thinking, to the stitch of each parcel and limb. That night
The Lovers and the Leavers by Abeer Hoque
Congratulations to Abeer Hoque, whose new novel in stories The Lovers and the Leavers is out now from HarperCollins India, Bengal Lights Books.From Bengal Lights Books, "Komola is a maid from rural Bangladesh working in Dhaka. 'Before You Eat' is the beginning of her...
Soul Retrieval in The Southwest by Lana Spendl appearing in Hobart
By Lana Spendl At my friend’s bonfire on a chilly Southwestern night, a blond woman in Birkenstocks approached me and said that her name was Singing Humyn.“Singing Human?” I asked.“Singing Humyn, with a ‘y,’” she said. She was a shaman, she explained.Questions sprang...