Issue 29 | Fall 2023

I am writing the dream

Stella Vinitchi Radulescu
Translated by Domnica Radulescu

I am printing on paper in golden letters

the flights

the passing of hours

the growing grass and the secret

of the dead

I am folding and unfolding the line

of the horizon

the dream is watching me on its deserted

paths

a body           an other       is waiting for me

at the crossroads

it’s dark it’s late

and that’s all

About the Author

Stella Vinitchi RadulescuStella Vinitchi Radulescu, a Romanian-American poet with a PhD in French, is the author of many collections of poetry published in the United States, Romania, and France. She writes poetry in English, French, and Romanian, though she does not translate any of her work between languages. Her poems have appeared in a variety of literary magazines in the United States, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Romania. Her two latest poetry collections, I Scrape the Window of Nothingness (2018) and Traveling With the Ghosts (2021), were published by Orison Books. A Cry in the Snow, translated from the French by Luke Hankins (Un cri dans la neige, Editions du Cygne, Paris), was published in 2018 by Seagull Books Press.

About the Translator

Domnica RadulescuDomnica Radulescu is a Romanian-born American writer and distinguished service professor of French and comparative literature at Washington and Lee University. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Train to Trieste (Knopf 2008 & 2009), Black Sea Twilight (Transworld 2011 & 2012), and Country of Red Azaleas (Hachette 2016), and of award-winning plays. Train to Trieste has been published in thirteen languages and is the winner of the 2009 Library of Virginia Fiction Award. Radulescu also published fourteen nonfiction books, edited and co-edited collections on topics ranging from the tragic heroine in Western literature to feminist comedy to studies of exile literature, and three collections of original plays. She is twice a Fulbright scholar.

Issue 29 Cover

Prose

Excerpt from novel-in-progress Plastic Soul: On the Destructive Nature of Lava James Nulick

About the About Mary Burger

Ellipse, DC Denis Tricoche

Excerpt from My Women Yuliia Iliukha translated by Hanna Leliv

In the East John Gu

Fire Trances Iliana Vargas, translated by Lena Greenberg and Michelle Mirabella

Excerpt from Concentric Macroscope Kelly Krumrie

Autumn Juan José Saer, translated by Will Noah

Pen Afsana Begum, translated by Rifat Munim

The Game Warden Michael Loyd Gray

Current and Former Associates William M. McIntosh

Take Care Laura Zapico

Poetry

I am writing the dream Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, translated by Domnica Radulescu
and finally, life emerging
and the night begins

Letter to the Soil Skye Gilkerson

A Flight Adam Day

The World Ariana Den Bleyker

What We Held in Common Justin Vicari
The Shame of Loving Another Poet

How to Keep Going Rebecca Macijeski
How to Lose Your Fear of Death
How to Paint the Sky

Eternal Life Cletus Crow

Cover Art

Deep Dive Ayshia Müezzin

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