CQR #38, Fall 2023
Featuring work by: Melissa Andrés * Justin Aoba * Harold Bordwell * Anna Braverman * Finn Briscoe * Paola Bruni * Marisa Campbell * Xochiquetzal Candelaria * Maria Castell-Greene * Morris Collins * George Cotkin * Kwame Dawes * Shawna Ervin * Paul Farwell * Gustavo Pérez Firmat * Rebecca Fox * Sekyo Nam Haines * Morgan Hamill * Miles Harvey * Dennis Hauck * Cho Ji Hoon * Gloria L. Huang * Jesse Lee Kercheval * Luke Johnson * David Philip Mullins * Sarah Nance * Natalia Nebel * David Nikityn * Lauren Page * Hearne Pardee * Roy Parvin * Michael Pearce * Jessica Powell * E.I. Pruitt * John Robinson * Ed Ruzicka * Daniel Saalfeld * Neal Snidow * David Susman * Nathan Winer * Reggie Scott Young * Annie Zhu
CQR #37, Spring 2023
Featuring work by: Greg Ames * rose auslander * Drew Calvert * Harrison Copp * Mark Crimmins * Dante Di Stefano * Michael Downs * Patrick Dundon * Josh Emmons * Philip Eskenazi * Kirk Glaser * Justin Groppuso-Cook * Colton Huelle * Richard Huffman * Richard Jacobs * Stephen Earley Jordan II * Markus Kirschner * Amy Marques * Jessie Ren Marshall * Paddy McCabe * Eireene Nealand * Pablo Neruda * Kristy Nielsen * Jack Norman * Darren Oberto * Marcus Ong Kah Ho * Andrew Porter * Melissa Pritchard * Orel Protopopescu * Jessica Nirvana Ram * Tim Raymond * William V. Roebuck * Malcolm Rothman * Varun U. Shetty * Paul Skenazy * Wally Swist * Ernie Wang * Thomas Wawzenek * Maud Welch
CQR #36, Fall 2022
Featuring work by: Chris Arp * Jennifer Bannan * Keri Bentz * Barbara Blades * Alan Bodnar * Jessica Breheny * Ricardo Cazares * Jinwoo Chong * Stephen Cramer * Jose Hernandez Diaz * Kerry James Evans * Shannon Fandler * Mohan Fitzgerald * Stephen Gibson * Henrietta Goodman * Benjamin S. Grossberg * Joe Imwalle * Juan Ramón Jiménez * Elizabeth Kadetsky * Scott Karambis * Peter Kessler * Chuck Kramer * Dorianne Laux * Brian Ma * Ken Malatesta * Michael Milburn * Julie Murphy * Devin Thomas O’Shea * Zack Rogow * aureleo sans * Lisa Sardinas * Devin Schiff * David Sheskin * Scott Spencer * Wally Swist * Sara Truuvert * Gemini Wahhaj * Charlie Watts * Ian Randall Wilson * Laura Budofsky Wisniewski
Cover art by Barbara Blades
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CQR #35, Summer 2022
Featuring work by: Prad Aphachan * Ann Voorhees Baker * A. J. Bermudez * Anthony Berris * Sheldon Costa * William C. Crawford * Alicia DeRollo * Terri Drake * Mark Duncan * Banzelman Guret * Barbara Haas * Charlie Hahn * Stephanie Hayes * Gary Houston * Ulrica Hume * Amy Kiger-Williams * Federico Garcia Lorca * Michelle Massie * Michael Mattes * George McDermott * Sam Meekings * Jane Morton * Dipika Mukherjee * Jan Nakao * Yoram Naslavsky * E. Nolan * Jack Norman * Ann Pedone * Matt Polzin * John Robinson * William Roebuck * Malcolm Rothman * Andrew Schofield * Susan Shepherd * D. James Smith * Wally Swist * Kristine Thatcher * Michael Trocchia * Francis Walsh * Whitney Watson
Cover art by Jan Nakao
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CQR #34, Fall 2021
Featuring work by: Jordi Torres Barroso * C Dylan Bassett * John Blair * Laurel Blossom * Erika Brumett * Christopher Buckley * Kwame Dawes * Stephen Gibson * Charles Holdefer * Richard Holinger * Jack Hurst * Lowell Jaeger * Dorianne Laux * Zhengqian (Ian) Li * George Looney * William Luvaas * Michael Malan * Susan Mathison * Deborah Moreno * Yxta Maya Murray * Steve Nam * A.D. Nauman * Amy Newman * Christopher Notarnicola * Dan Pinkerton * Antonia Pozzi * Elisabeth Preston-Hsu * Elizabeth Richardson * William Roebuck * Melinda Rooney * Victor Ladis Schultz * Kylee Sibilia * Diane Sunden * Wally Swist * Giuseppe Ungaretti * Lavanya Vasudevan * Siamak Vossoughi * James Whorton Jr. * Henry Clayton Wickham * John Sibley Williams * Ian Randall Wilson * Gregory Wolff * Pui Ying Wong * Rogers Worthington
Cover photograph by Susan Mathison
CQR 33, 2021
Guest edited by Charles Johnson, this anthology of Black American literature features work by: Jeffery Renard Allen * Steven Barnes * Arthur Burghardt * Cyrus Cassells * Louis Chude-Sokei * Aaron Coleman * celeste doaks * Rita Dove * Rachel Eliza Griffiths * Peter J. Harris * Le Van D. Hawkins * Tsehaye Geralyn Hébert * David Henderson * E. Hughes * Charles Johnson * Jamiel Law * Clarence Major * John McCluskey, Jr. * E. Ethelbert Miller * Yesenia Montilla * David Nicholson * Delia C. Pitts * Mona Lisa Saloy * Sharyn Skeeter * Clifford Thompson * Jerald Walker * Jan Willis
Cover Art by Jamiel Law
Vol. 32, Fall 2020
Featuring work by: Walid Abdallah * Matt Baca * Gabriella Bedetti * Chris Bentley * Sebastian Bitticks * Don Boes * Don Bogen * Paola Bruni * Jessica Campbell * Kevin Clark * Mark Crimmins * Robbie Curry * Ron Dean * Dante Di Stefano * Raoul Felder * Sonia Feldman * Andy Fogle * Mike Gillis * Farouk Goweda * João Luís Barreto Guimarães * Stephen D. Gutierrez * Samina Hadi-Tabassum * Becky Hagenston * Harrison Hill * Charles Hood * Fred Hood * Julie Jones * Robert Kerwin * Ronald Kovach * Jessie Kraemer * Nasma Kublawi * Lynn Martin * Michela Martini * Bruce McKay * Elizabeth McKenzie * Henri Meschonnic * Tom Miller * Yxta Maya Murray * Jonathan Muzzall * Calvin Olsen * Romeo Oriogun * Derek N. Otsuji * Cassandra Passarelli * Micah Perks * Andrew Porter * Jory Post * Kristel Rietesel-Low * Giacomo Sartori * Vandana Sehrawat * Neal Snidow * Eleanor Spiess-Ferris * Joseph Thomas * Andreas Trolf * Marcos Villatoro * Maria Zocco
Cover Art by Eleanor Spiess-Ferris
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CQR #31, Summer 2020
Featuring work by:
Karen Ackland * Evan Anders * Aaliyah Bilal * John Blair * Jaswinder Bolina * Lilah Clay * George Cotkin * Brad Crenshaw * Tandy Cronyn * Donna L. Emerson * Ethan Feuer * Amy A. Foley * Tim Griffith * Alan Gross * S. Afzal Haider * Syed Ishaq Haider * Shen Haobo * Bella Hayes-Roth * Raymond Hummel * Kristopher Jansma * Stephen Kessler * Thomas Lee * Michael Milburn * A. Molotkov * Jacob Anthony Moniz * Delia C. Pitts * Sarena Pollock * Richard Prouty * Molly Quinn * Malcolm Rothman * Yan Sham-Shackleton * Matthew Socia * Cutter Streeby * Shoshana Surek * Gabriella R. Tallmadge * Amanda Uhle * Anthony Varallo * Primo Ventello * John Walser * Zachary Watterson * R. Hunter Whitworth * Jennifer Wortman * Liang Yujin
CQR #30, 2020 The Australian Issue
Cover Art: “My Story is Your Story” by Jandamarra Cadd
This special Australian edition of the Chicago Quarterly Review, guest edited by Paul Williams and Shelley Davidow, presents a mosaic of diverse and exceptional writers’ voices from a multi-faceted multicultural land. Featuring work by: MICHAEL MOHAMMED AHMAD * ROSE ALLAN * VAN BADHAM * YASAMAN BAGHERI * BEHROUZ BOOCHANI * HILARY BURDEN * JANDAMARRA CADD * SARAH CASEY * SIMON CLEARY * CLAIRE G. COLEMAN * SHELLEY DAVIDOW * QUINN EADES * ALI COBBY ECKERMANN * ANNAH FAULKNER * NIGEL FEATHERSTONE * PETE GOODLET * ARIA IQBAAL * ANNA JACOBSON * LEAH KAMINSKY * KRISSY KNEEN * MICHAEL LEUNIG * BELLE LING * KIM MAHOOD * DAVID MALOUF * FIONA KELLY MCGREGOR * PATRICK NUNN * FELICITY PLUNKETT * CANDY ROYALLE * INGA SIMPSON * SHERIDAN STEWART * MARIA TAKOLANDER * DEVI A. TELFER * OMID TOFIGHIAN * MARK TREDINNICK * DEWA WARDAK * SAMUEL WAGAN WATSON * PAUL WILLIAMS * EIRA WOLFF * JOHN WRENCH
CQR #29, Fall 2019
Our 25th Anniversary issue. Cover design by Alvaro Villaneuva, and featuring new work by:
Featuring work by: Judith Aller, Christopher Todd Anderson, Billy Baites, Ann Voorhees Baker, Deni Ellis Bechard, Max Berwald, John Blades, Harold Bordwell, Steven Carrelli, Michael Collier, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, William Virgil Davis, Michael Day, Marcy Dermansky, Regina DiPerna, Christina Drill, Patricia Engel, Peter Ferry, Robert Long Foreman, Luke Geddes, Bob Glassman, Syed Afzal Haider, Liam Heneghan, Charles Hood, Gary Houston, Hugh Iglarsh, Cheryl Collins Isaac, Robert Kerwin, Waqas Khwaja, Chuck Kramer, Yumiko Kurahashi, Louise LeBourgeois, David Lehman, Bronte Lim, Kathleen McGookey, Elizabeth McKenzie, Michael Miner, Faisal Mohyuddin, Roberta Montgomery, Dipika Mukherjee, Gregg Murray, Scott Nadelson, Natalia Nebel, Naomi Shihab Nye, Harry Mark Petrakis, Elina Petrova, Genevieve Plunkett, Jory Post, Signe Ratcliff, Alyssa Ripley, Chuck Rosenthal, Craig Sautter, Emily Schulten, Moazzam Sheikh, Brian Allan Skinner, Christine Sneed, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, Patricia Stacey, James Stacey, Umberto Tosi, Alvaro Villaneuva, Jake Young.
A full list of all contributors since 1994 included.
CQR #28, Spring 2019
With cover art by Rumi Hara, and featuring new work by:
Farah Ali * Mir Anis * Samuel Rafael Barber * Andrew Beckner * Ryan Bloom * David Booth * Brett Busang * Hamida Banu Chopra * Kim Farrar * Bill Gaythwaite * Renny Golden * Deborah Gorlin * Emily Greenberg * Rumi Hara * Harry Hutson * Muhammad Iqbal * Peter Joseph Koch * Michael Lavers * Trudy Lewis * Louise Marburg * Jen Michalski * Jonathan Andrew Perez, Esq. * Andrew Porter * Jory Post * Jane Ratcliffe * Zack Rogow * Malcolm Rothman * Michael R. Schrimper * Eric Severn * Ashley Shelby * Irene Hoge Smith * Robert Solomon * Matthew J. Spireng * Janferie Stone * Hema Surendranathan * Barbara Sutton * Patrick Sylvain * Thomas Wawzenek * Catherine Wong * Alexi Zentner
CQR #27, Fall 2018
Featuring work by: D.M. Aderibigbe * Bryce Berkowitz * Christopher Yohmei Blasdel * Beverly Burch * Steve Carrelli * Wayne Conti * Heather Cousins * Corey Davidson * Doug Dibbern * Fred Dings * Noah Dobin-Bernstein * Andrew Fague * Shawn Fawson * Joan Frank * Pamela Morneault Gemme * Toni Graham * Benjamin Harnett * David Harrell * Laura Heffington * Florence Homolka * Richard Huffman * Guillermo Lanza * Lara Markstein * Ben Masaoka * Karen McPherson * Isidra Mencos * Linda Downing Miller * Andrew Mulvania * Teresa Burns Murphy * Natalia Nebel * Chika Onyenezi * Frances Park * Juan Parra * Robert Leonard Reid * Jim Ringley * Leona Sevick * Micah Ruelle * Richard B. Simon * Theadora Siranian * Marjorie Skelly * Seth D. Slater * Eleanor Spiess-Ferris * Adam Sullivan * Lisa Taddeo * Rebecca Turkewitz * Daniel Uncapher * Mitchell Untch * Bradley VanDeventer * Larry Watson * Wang Wei * Ian Randall Wilson * Yanwen Xu * Gary Young * Fan Zhongyan
CQR #26, Winter/Spring 2018
Featuring work by: Kathleen de Azevedo * Michael Blades * Christopher Buckley * Danny Calegari * Tyler Corbridge * Jennifer Dorner * Ken Drexler * Julie Esther Fisher * Randy Fowler * Jared Garland * Michael Griffith * Aliete Guerrero * Stephen D. Gutierrez * Colin Hamilton * Alison Harris * Richard Hedderman * Catherine Abbey Hodges * Carlie Hoffman *Charles Hood * Nathan Isaksson * Sharon Kennedy-Nolle * Robert Kerwin * Hank Lawson * William L. Lederer * Catherine Mao * Susan Mathison * Margarita Meklina * Megan Moodie * Daniel Mueller * RCA O’Neal * Rebecca Pelky * John Robinson * Zack Rogow * Dennis Saleh * R. Craig Sautter * Susan Sensemann * Ryan Elliott Smith * Moez Surani * Jackie Thomas-Kennedy * Sean Towey * Siamak Vossoughi * Daniel Webre * John Sibley Williams
CQR #25, Summer 2017
Featuring work by: Leslie Marie Aguilar * Ronald Alexander * Saskia Anderson * Renée Branum * Jackson Onose Braun * John Chandler * Kevin Clark * Mark Crimmins * Thomas Dodson * Christina Drill * Donka Farkas * Robert Fay * (Corinne) Renny Golden * Eva Sage Gordon * John S. Green * Rumi Hara * John Harn * Karl Harshbarger * James Kelly * Stephen Kessler * Chris Gordon Owen * John Stanford Owen * Clarke W. Owens * J. Ray Paradiso * Harry Mark Petrakis * Carol M. Quinn * Robert Sachs * Kevin Sampsell * Renate Stendhal * Alison Carb Sussman * Clark Theriot * Yukiko Tominaga * Russell Working
CQR #24, Winter 2017, The South Asian American Issue
“There was a time when the South Asian writer treaded the linguistic register rather carefully. Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children shook things up and made many of us his children. Not anymore! The new South Asian American writer is a wild beast.”—from the Introduction by guest editor Moazzam Sheikh
Featuring Vidhu Aggarwal, Kazim Ali, Meher Ali, Neelanjana Banerjee, Nadia Chaney, Sayantani Dasgupta, Tara Dorabji, Ali Eteraz, Saadia Faruqi, Mala Gaonkar, Madhushree Ghosh, Ro Gunetilleke, S. Afzal Haider, Syed Ishaq Haider, Minal Hajratwala, Soniah Kamal, Kirun Kapur, Maya Khosla, Swati Khurana, Waqas Khwaja, Anu Kumar, Aditi Machado, Amit Majmudar, Shikha Malaviya, Zafar Malik, Vikas Menon, Faisal Mohyuddin, Dipika Mukherjee, Somnath Mukherji, Naomi Munaweera, Shabnam Nadiya, Shivani Narang, Ifti Nasim, Sophia Naz, Toni Nealie, Mahmud Rahman, Reema Rajbanshi, Roshni Rustomji-Kerns, Chaitali Sen, Moazzam Sheikh, Ravibala Shenoy, Ranbir Singh Sidhu, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Sadia Uqaili, Sachin Waikar, Tanu Mehrotra Wakefield.
“This rich issue of Chicago Quarterly Review is the perfect antidote for the cultural ignorance of those who demonize immigrants and fear the inevitable browning of America. In these memorable stories, essays, poems, and photos, we see past differences of culture, country, and religion straight into the heart of South Asian Americans, realizing that it is our own heart, one that powerfully reminds us of our shared humanity.” –Charles Johnson, author of Middle Passage and The Way of the Writer
“In a time of mounting distrust of foreign cultures and unprecedented attacks against immigrants, this sweeping collection of writing by a new wave of South Asian writers is an antidote that both transports and illuminates. The irrepressible voices within rage against widely diverse assumptions and stereotypes and yet unite to remind us of the universality of the human condition.” –Manil Suri, author of The Death of Vishnu
CQR #23, Fall 2016
Contributors include: Robin Barber, Andrew W.M. Beierle, J. A. Bernstein, Lisa Bloomfield, J. Scott Brownlee, Claudia Buckholts, Lucas Carpenter, Dounia Choukri, Emily Culliton, Patricia Engel, Robin Estrin, Katharine Haake, Stanley Horowitz, Michael Hutchison, Greg Jenkins, Charles Johnson, Laura Jok, David Kear, Robert Kerwin, Jen Knox, Chuck Kramer, Shane Lake, Dorianne Laux, Thomas Lee, Joan Li, Margit Liesche, Joseph Millar, Rod Val Moore, Eireene Nealand, W.P. Osborn, Cassandra Passarelli, Harry Mark Petrakis, Sofi Stambo, Jim Swierzynski, Jake Tuck, and Ian Randall Wilson
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CQR #22, Spring 2016
Featuring work by Michael Alenyikov, Greg Allendorf, Jennifer Bannan, F. Douglas Brown, Craig Buchner, Kevin Callaway, George Choundas, Thomas Cook, Geffrey Davis, Willer de Oliveira, Toby Donovan, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Carol Edelstein, Kyle Ellingson, Panio Gianopoulos, Sharon Goldberg, Yen Ha, Jared Harel, Laura Heffington, Rage Hezekiah, Lowell Jaeger, Tim Keppel, Marianne Kunkel, Laura Legge, Christine Lehner, Gotham Mamik, Taylor Mazer, John Milas, Erica Mosley, Jan Nakao, Youmi Park, Glen Pourciau, C.R. Resetarits, Sara Schaff, Susan Sensemann, Craig Shaw, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, Jason Tandon, Ronald Tobias, Qianyue Xu
CQR #21, Fall 2015
Fall 2015 issue: Cover illustration, “House on Fire,” by Rumi Hara. Featuring work by Aliki Barnstone • Sharon Barrett • Heather Bowlan • Margaret Chula • Stephen Cloud • Douglas Cole • Diana Crane • David Downie • Peter Ferry • Mauricio Montiel Figueiras • Victor Florence • Edward Garner • Rumi Hara • Natalie S. Harnett • Charles Holdefer • Gary Houston • Suzanne Jill Levine • Erin Lillo • Julia Malye • Michael P. McManus • Devin Murphy • James Paradiso • Charles Parsons • Harry Mark Petrakis • Nicolette Polek • Trenton Pollard • Richard Rapaport • James Reiss • Timothy Richard • Jonathan Rose • Ryan Salazar • Jay Shearer • Peter Stine • Goro Takano • Barbara Tannenbaum • Alison Touster-Reed • John Twohey • Josh Wardrip • Joe Weil • Luke Whisnant • Jerry Whitus • David Winner • Gary Young • Eric Zurita
CQR #20, Spring 2015, The Italian Issue
Cover illustration by Rossana Campo, “Il leone della piccola Pauline” from L’arte soppianta tutti gli altri enzimi, Opere 2000-2011, Il Canneto Editore, 2012.
| Michela Martini | Editor’s Note |
| J. Rodolpho Wilcock | The Exile; Innocent Dream; To Dismantle Myself; Space; The First Ones; The Night of San Giovanni |
| Guido Morselli | The Communist |
| Mauro Castellani | The Pier’s Flowers; Dream on the Wall; Never Again |
| Aldo Palazzeschi | Melodrama; The Writer; To Be or Not to Be |
| Patrizia Vicinelli | [gold and laments]; [oh evidence mock me]; [like beasts “the lions”]; I will not return |
| Edoardo Sanguineti | A Novel; The Ballad of the Wind; For H.C. |
| Rosebud Rosabella | Glory 04; One Way; Rebus |
| Valerio Magrelli | [this page is an uninhabited room]; [Some books can be used] |
| Giacomo Pilati | The King’s Cock |
| Biancamaria Frabotta | [O deceitful sleep who reawakens]; [I dreamt of the Muses of the other hemisphere]; Post Coitum Test |
| Emanuele Trevi | The Star of Dejection |
| Francesco Verso | Celestial Formatting |
| Sciltian Gastaldi | One-Winged Angels |
| Rudi Dundas | Leccino; Love-in-a-Mist; Moon Through Cypress Oaks |
| Mara Cini | [the song shawl]; [gala of ice, see]; [the glare of the name]; [he brings the day] |
| Patrizia Cavalli | [I fall and fall again] |
| Angela Scarparo | The Walk |
| Massimo Migliorati | [Only the surprise of bells tolling]; [Who knows if the wind intriguing us]; [Then we recognize ourselves, now and then]; {And then, if you think about it, the rest]; [The panes streaked by the rain]; [Today is a day of wind] |
| Alessandra Lavagnino | One Winter 1943-1944 |
| Rossana Campo | Never Felt So Good |
| Mauro Casiraghi | Requiem Deluxe |
| Ernesto Livorni | Coded Message; The Widow’s Dream; Playing Dead |
| Gabriele Pedulla | Miranda |
| Franca Di Muzio | Arise and Walk |
| Cristina Alziati | To My Father; The Chemo Curls |
| Nicola Skert | Hitorizuma |
| Fabio Donalisio | [to himself]; [manifestino]; [unbelievably alone]; [some things are gaping]; [Rome] |
| Nicola Manuppelli | Summer! |
| And featuring translators: | Bonnie Costello, Frederika Randall, Katia Pansa, Olivia E. Sears, Robert Hahn, Michela Martini, Margaret Brose, Ellen Nerenberg, Elizabeth McKenzie, Georgia Emma Gili, Silvana Mastrolia, Patrizia Villani, Adam Elgar, Adria Frizzi, Traci Andrighetti, Jacob Blakesley, Alta L. Price, Michael Kirylo, Deborah Davies, John Domini |
Volume 19, Winter 2015
| Octavio Solis | Sonia’s New Smile |
| Chuck Rosenthal | The Legend of La Diosa |
| David William Hill | Les Boules de Hong Kong |
| Patty Houston | You Bacon Me Crazy |
| Alan Cheuse | Taste |
| Gary Houston | Gateway |
| Catherine Segurson | Flower Storm |
| RL Goldberg | In the Flesh |
| Temma Ehrenfeld | Before Some Beauty |
| Eleanor Spiess-Ferris | The Art Store |
| Zack Rogow | Havana Twilight |
| Jack Nicholls | Hospital Smoker |
| Randall Brown | Oh, Oh, Oh |
| Katherine Heiny | Cranberry Relish |
| Coby Hoffman | He Will Rise Again in Mariveles |
| Evie Rucker | The Wonderful Day |
| Johnny Damm | Twenty-One Essays on Alberto Cavalcanti |
| Trilby Kent | Heroic Couplings |
| Benjamin E. Golden | Murricuh: A Recon Mission |
| David Frankel | This Is All I Remember |
| Jacques Prévert | Birds At Random |
| Romana Iorga | Out of the Labyrinth |
| Luis Cernuda | Full Moon Night |
| Roy Bentley | Byron and Shelley, Maintaining Beautiful Ohio |
| Gail Wronsky | For Not In the Vain We Name the ConstellationsThe Light and Shade Upon the Globe |
| Myron Ernst | Encounter |
| Diana Reaves | Heron |
| Lucia Stacey | I Read My Mother’s Journal Once |
| Esteban Rodriguez | Tamales |
| Stephen Kessler | Camden Drive Doris Avenue Coyoacán The Floating World |
| Kathryn Delancellotti | San Simeon State Beach, California |
| Christine Kitano | Years Later, Washing Dishes, A Vision Friday Night Affair |
| Osip Mandelstam | The Age |
| Nick Courtright | There Was Very Little Doubt |
Cover photograph by Lucien Hervé
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Volume 18, Summer 2014
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| Joao Melo | The Usurper |
| Naomi O’Hara | A Pure Brain |
| Willer de Oliveira | The Urologist |
| Ali Eteraz | The Price of Paradise |
| Claire Harlan Orsi | The Accidental Suicides |
| Peyton Burgess | Auction |
| Ilya Leybovich | Fear of Heights |
| Peter Ferry | The Dead |
| Christina Yu | Brief Moments of Confusion |
| John Byrne | Jackets and Hats |
| Thomas Lee | Ghost of A Tiger Mother |
| Jordan J. Coriza | Garcia and Sons |
| Thomas A. Dodson | The Death of Elpenor |
| Joseph Holt | Sing Along |
| Jill Birdsall | The Secret Life of Darling Biddy |
| Anthony Feggans | The Observation of Children |
| Dan Moreau | Personal Bubble TM |
| Yoon Choi | The Door Guardian |
| Cathleen Maza | Flammable |
| Carrie Mullins | Last Trade |
| Ed Pavlic | Verbatim: Routes |
| Colette | Loves |
| Michael Milburn | Home Grown |
| Harmony Button | Dear Spider(s) |
| Ryan Michael Johnson | Love in July |
| Paul Verlaine | My Familiar Dream |
| Jon Veinberg | The Ethereal Coffeemaker Stealing Pomegranates |
| Jacob Newberry | Reading Flaubert in Tel Aviv |
| Christopher Buckley | The Usual Existential Subjects Gambler’s or Monte Carlo Fallacy |
| celeste doaks | Dad’s Golf, a Foreign Language to Me Memory Before Body |
| Bryn Homuth | Overheard in Leaves |
| Kenny Tanemura | Suiseki Trauma – A |
| Natalie Solmer | Floral Department Checklist No. 3 |
| Sierra Golden | It’s Raining, Again Fisherman and Wife Father |
| Samantha Killmeyer | Thunderstorms |
| Mary Doria Russell | Choices Not on the Probate Inventory Common Ground |
| C. Wade Bentley | In Re: A Good Day’s Work |
| Katherine Vondy | Basic Drawing |
| Matthew Huff | Elegy with 8 Legs |
| Philippe Desportes | Icaru |
Volume 17: The Chicago Issue, 2014
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| Paul Skenazy | Crossing the Street The World Left Behind |
| Don De Grazia | Black Was Missing |
| Natalia Nebel | It Hurts |
| Joe Meno | Dares |
| Cecillia Pinto | Automatic |
| Gina Frangello | This Is The President’s Son |
| Steve Trumpeter | The Candidate |
| Jack Fuller | True With Time |
| Christine Sneed | Time Machine |
| Syed Afzal Haider | Half Moon |
| Sharon Solwitz | The Place of No Pain |
| Liz Radford | Pea Cannery |
| Donald G. Evans | The Princess of Portage Park |
| John Blades | The Fourth Dimentia |
| Paul Nicholas Jones | A Secondary Hallucination |
| Jane Lawless | The Fence Broccoli |
| Signe Ratcliff | Eppy & Tuba Forever |
| Dipika Mukherjee | The Jazz Bar |
| Umberto Tosi | Onion Station |
| Rogers Worthington | Bugroast |
| Melanie Villines | Windy City Sinners |
| Micki Lesueur | Splinters |
| R. Craig Sautter | The Walker |
| Olga Domchenko | Dancing in the Abattoir |
| J. Wentraub | Not Many Trees Out There on Peachtree Street |
| Andy Holt | A Big Red Jumble of Lines |
| Rosellen Brown | The Eyes |
| Stuart Patterson | From Where I Sit |
| Jan Herman | The Paradox of Ben Hecht |
| Marcia Cavell | Waiting |
| Harry Mark Petrakis | Writing and Publication |
| Garnet Kilberg Cohen | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell in the Midwest |
| James Stacey | Colo |
| Louise Lebourgeois | Horizon |
| Jason Economus | Burning Mind An Interview with Erasing the Distance Founder Brighid O’Shaughnessy |
| Robert Kerwin | Brothers |
| Gary Houston | Class Notes |
| James Crizer | The Dermatoid “I”Panacea |
| Robert Brown | Composite Character Snow From The Illusion That Is With Its Costume On |
| L.M. Kell | The Explorer Knows Fused Glass They Don’t Teach This in Girl Scouts |
Volume 16, Spring/Summer 2013
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| Amy Bitterman | Breeding Grounds |
| Donna Luff | Sirens and Roses, a memoir |
| Doc Suds | Ebisu; Back Then; Lupus |
| Moazzam Sheikh | Invisible Strands |
| Jory Post | Worm Tag |
| Geffrey Davis | A Third Grader Draws Texas; What I Mean When I Say Chinook Salmon |
| Alfredo Vea | Every Goat On Earth |
| Douglas Cole | The Lie Detector |
| Richard M. Lange | The Golden Opportunity |
| Yumi Wilson | The Dog Park, an essay |
| Spencer Golub and David Hancock | Peoria |
| Karen Kates | Dunk Tank |
| Christopher T. Anderson | Haphephobia: The Fear of Being Touched; Heaven, A Tour |
| G.H. Smith | The Gravity of Desire |
| Mark Wisniewski | Tender |
| Robert Savino Oventile | How The Flowers Fall, an essay |
| William L. Alton | Civilization; Collard Greens in the Middle of the Night |
| Sherrie Flick | Horizon |
| Robert Yune | April First |
| Sjohnna McCray | Bedtime Story #1; Midlife Crisis in Boots |
| Susie Mee | RUBYRUBYRUBY |
| Julianne Hill | Kudzu, an essay |
| David James Keaton | Egg Tooth |
| Nancy Lord | It Takes A Wolf |
| Michael Bazzett | Stephen |
| Thomas Brian | Provincials |
| Kimberly Farrar | Dear Pluto |
Volume 15, Fall/Winter 2012
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| Charles Haddox | The Turned-Into’s |
| John Wilmes | Davey |
| Donald G. Evans | Family Update |
| Samson Stillwell | This Way of Being Awake |
| Judith Aller | The Beast With Five Fingers, a memoir |
| Nicola Manuppelli | Bowling |
| Robin Curtiss | The Kissing Booth |
| Idra Novey | Joan of Arc Takes Over the WTO |
| Mark Hage | Gnat |
| Alta Ifland | Lost in Shanghai |
| James O’Brien | The Father’s Lament, a translation from Beowulf |
| Shelley Davidow | The Violin Teacher |
| Wallace Baine | Connecticut |
| Alice Phung | At Eighteen |
| Signe Ratcliff | The Answer Girl |
| Lynn Melnick | Historical Accuracy |
| Scott Solomon | Waiting for Sweetcorn |
| Jennifer Firestone | From Ten |
| Erik Hanson | Just One Drop |
| Abe Aamidor | My Stupid Life Dot Com |
| Andy Austin | Entropy |
| Howard Altmann | The Defining Punch |
| Craig Hartglass | The Tens |
| Lois Barliant | Remembering Pepper Furey, an appreciation |
| Pepper Furey | Good Morning, Mr. Dog |
Volume 14, 2012
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| Cindy Adrian | Lynn |
| Deni Y. Béchard | An Opera of War |
| Mark Burke | Matchmaker |
| Elizabeth Crane | Justin Bieber’s Hair in a Box / Colonel Sanders Has a Choice |
| Laura Deily | Hospital Poem |
| Chidelia Edochie | Family Trip |
| Graham Foust | Broken Poem / The New Things |
| Janet Freeman | Perfect Blemish |
| Molly Giles | Bothered |
| Ryuta Imafuku, translated by Yukiko Terazawa |
The Resonance of Immigrant Voices, an essay about the writing of Karen Tei Yamashita |
| Robert Kerwin | The Place, a memoir |
| Ben Levaton | A Conversation with Amanda Field, CQR Poetry Editor |
| Christopher Linforth | Father and Son, Inc. |
| Andrea Malin | A Quiet Insurrection |
| Pamela Martin | Sutton Hoo |
| Kelly McNamara | This Is How Much You Need A Dog, a memoir |
| Todd Melicker | King & Queen |
| Karen T. Miller | Men’s Briefs |
| Micah Perks | The Comeback Tour |
| Andrew X. Pham | Lost Hours, a memoir |
| Elizabeth Robinson | If my Interlocutor were my Judge / If my Interlocutor were Grace (Sewing and Spinning) / If my Interlocutor were Faith (Midwiving) |
| Jack Ryan | Superheroes |
| Laura Sims | Haiku for the End of Time |
| Adriano Spatola, translated by Beppe Cavatorta and Polly Geller |
The Porthole |
| Najm Hosain Syed | A Translator’s Note / Chronicle of a War / Stump / You / Khayal / Road / Goki |
| Vito Victor | Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen, an essay |
| Ken Weisner | Emigrant |
| Paul A. Williams | Promise Me This, a memoir |
Volume 13, 2010
| Liz Abraham | We Have Always Done This |
| Jody Azzouni | Way Back When. A Long Time Ago. When Colors Could Sing. |
| John Blades | Bad Job, Tommy |
| John Chandler | Tourettes |
| Timothy Crandle | Night Vision |
| Olga Domchenko | All I Want is My Mother and Viggo Mortenson |
| Malon Edwards | Off the Wall |
| Temma Ehrenfeld | Definition |
| Michael Fessler | Montage for Marianne |
| Ruth Goring | Arc |
| Caitlyn He | Persephone |
| Vanessa Hemingway | The Package |
| Eric Lee | On the Way to Gasparilla |
| Lynn Martin | Cosmos & Love; Ocean; The Old |
| Roberta Montgomery | Updike’s Lawn |
| Ifti Nasim | A Boy Taught Me How to Kiss a Girl |
| Maria Nazos | Watching Bergman Films with My Mother |
| Anthony Opal | Monk’s Thought |
| Laura Wine Paster | The Gasp |
| Jake Ricafrente | Concerning Stars |
| Brad Rohrer | Handcuffs |
| Peter Sheehy | That Dance People Do |
| M.E. Silverman | The Freak from Kulkousky Street |
| Don Skiles | Archimedes Smokes Camel Straights |
| Robert McClure Smith | A Turkey |
| Randolph Splitter | Gorilla Boy |
| James Stacey | My Functional Family: A Memoir |
| Brent Weinbach | An Evening Out On the Town |
| Paul Wellons | Brothers in Arms |
Volume 12, 2009
| Ruth Bavetta | Now Is the Time of Black Lizards |
| Randy Blythe | Lying on My Back Looking Up |
| M.L. Brown | Ways of Being: the Empty Cup, Coyote Fire |
| Susan Howard Case | Remission |
| William Eisner | The Retirement Party |
| Donna Emerson | Destination Well Known |
| Margaret B. Ingraham | Tidewater, Remembering Papa |
| John Philip Johnson | My Uncle and I Chatted |
| David Joseph | Into the Gulf |
| Elizabeth Kay | Drowning Girl |
| David Kinsbourne | Paramedic |
| Carolyn Kraus | Running in Place |
| Sarah McKinstry-Brown | Letter to the Land of My Birth |
| Kat Meads | Among the Wakeful, These |
| Greg Przekwas | Or All That Close |
| Ingrid Satelmajer | Some Strange and Unlikely Coincidence |
| Catherine Ennis Sears | Wide Wide Wide |
| Pete Shanks | One More June |
| Alice Stern | About Food |
| Helen Wickes | Day After Easter, Point Reyes |
| Ilona Yusuf | miniature |
Volume 11, Spring 2008
| Edoardo Sanguineti | Poetry translations, plus translators’ statement. |
| David Fleming | Negro Boy, 14 |
| Gary Miller | Truest Curse |
| Michael Davis | The Man in Africa |
| Arthur Fox | Three Poems |
| Jody Azzouni | Sirens |
| Anne-E Wood | Drinking and the Dead |
| Paul Luikart | Three Poems |
| Deborah Guerra | The Interview |
| Carrie Messenger | How the Romanians Ruined Christmas |
| Camillo Sbarbaro | Poetry translations, plus translators’ statement. |
Volume 10, Fall/Winter 2007
| Richard N. Bentley | Hallowe’en Afternoon Soaring Will this Poem be on the Final Exam? You Want Fries with That? |
| Alexander Boldizar | Before the Law |
| J.E. Boles | Rona Pagliaro |
| Jane Carter | Good Food |
| Casey Comstock | Lengua |
| Suzanne Franklin | His Beautiful Face |
| Richard Huffman | Risk of the Open Sea |
| Greg Jenkins | Double or Nothing |
| William E. Meyer | New Man in Town |
| Annis Shivani | After 9 p.m. No Visitors Allowed |
| Dorothy Stroud | Diaspora Hawk Factor |
Volume 9, Summer/Fall 2006
| Paul Kaidy Barrows | Ground Zero |
| Richard N. Bentley | On the Barge Marie Jose |
| Marsha Lee Berkman | Acts of Mercy |
| Michelle Brooks | Every DayHow to Own and Operate a Haunted House Love One Another Constantly |
| Paul Donahue | Dead Baby |
| J.B. Hollander | Victory, a Tale of Tbilisi |
| Jane Adams Hull House After School Matters | Young Eyes, Wise Visions |
| Mary Jones | When You Get There |
| Jim Kudrick | Story of a Parking Meter |
| Cortwright McMeel | Bus Driver |
| J.E. Ogle | The King of Fish Castles |
| D’Arcy Ann Pryciak | To a Friend From a Writer Growing Older True Northern Coldblood |
| Jenene Ravesloot | In Order to Describe You The Deaf Girl Triptych |
| Jeff Schmidt | The Dollar Store Bargain |
| Dwain Voorhis | Slitherlove |
Volume 8, Winter 2005
| Mary Bartek | Monday’s Mail |
| Richard N. Bentley | Collateral Damage Flight How to Make a Wasp TrapMemo to the Accounting Department Now |
| June Rachuy Brindel | Five Poems on Grief |
| Mark W. Brown | The Magic Words |
| Glen Chestnut | Walling Out the Light |
| Joe Ducato | Out in the Moonlight Alone |
| Rich Hallstrom | The Ruin of Rose |
| Amy Harke-Moore | Ten-Mile Drive |
| Kathryn Kefauver | Salvaging |
| Annam Manthiram | Somesh and Padmani |
| Nancy McCoy | The Barrier |
| Even E. Mingle | Notes from 22B |
| Gregory Phillan | A Night in the Woods |
| Jenene Ravesloot | From My Sketchbook |
| Jay Todd | Goodnight Reilly |
| Vito Victor | Treason |
Volume 7, Winter 2004
| Melanie VanBeck | Chasing the Coyote |
| Richard Lee Zuras | Your Father and Mine |
| J.E. Bennett | Winter Moon Sculptural Bias In the WoodsBridge in July |
| Rebecca S. Mills | As Simple as That |
| Diana López | Rita’s Monkey Head |
| Les White | Julie Joined the Navy |
| Rita O’Hara | —paintings— |
| Sandy Tanaka | Edgar and Ramona |
| Rose Rappoport Moss | Agave |
| Jane Lawrence | Hospitality |
| Mary Beth Leymaster Matteo | Whoever Heard of Such a Thing, Anyway? |
| Halcyon Mancuso | Children of Summer |
| Kenneth G. Allen, Jr. | A Chocolate Kiss-Off |
| Guy Gauthier | Water & Earth: A Journal |
Volume 6, Winter 2003
| Richard N. Bentley | Too Far Away Post-Freudian Dreaming |
| Darren DeFrain | Public Displays |
| Jim Zervanos | Oh, Captain |
| D.E. Laczi | Scape: For Edward Hopper |
| Barbara Hammer | Nedlog |
| Charles Rose | D.T. |
| Jim Mezzanotte | Aloha From Honolulu |
| Kenneth G. Allen | My Listening Corner |
| Rachel Eve Moulton | Monkey and the Purple Dragon |
| Jim Henry | New Scales of Magnificence |
| Peter Moore Smith | The Coward |
Volume 2.2, Summer 1997
| Jane McClellan | Where Life Comes Together |
| Luigi Monteferrante | The Lone Traveler |
| Elizabeth McKenzie | What’s Happening in My Eyes |
| Michael H. Brownstein | Aftermath Nursing the Baby |
| Errol Miller | Suburban Westside Concerto Berkeley Avenue This Side of Chicago |
| Daniel Green | Zeal Snows |
| Leona Green | Sketches |
| Jessica Gilliam | Mattress |
| Henry L. Jones | Sun: One Abstractions Heal I am |
Volume 1.2, Winter 1994
| Joseph A. Barda | Living Memories |
| G.S. Kaplan | That’s Got me Through Intimacy At Seven O’Clock, an April Evening |
| Deborah Morris | Acceptable Addictions |
| Les White | Julie Joined the Navy |
| Karen T. Miller | Quietly Out the Door |
| James Blair | Tradition |
| B.F. Helman | Construction untitled |
| S. Afzal Haider | You Waited Too Longuntitled |
| Faith Miller | When He Comes Home |
| Grace Lane | Green Dress |
Volume 1.1, Spring 1994
| Sunday, Crimson Sunday | Syed Afzal Haider |
| Tim W. Brown | Race Fletcher |
| Deborah Morris | Self-Portrait |
| Jane Lawrence | Snakes The Woman in the Corn |
| Tim Winchester | Grapes |
| Lois Barliant | The Morning Service |
| Greg Anderson | Acclaim |
| Brian Skinner | My Advice to Young Writers |
| Noreene Walsh | Prophecies |
Hello there:
I am a student from Algeria. I only need to find out the exact bibliographic note for Eteraz Ali, “The Price of Paradise”. Apparently, it is a piece published in your journal. But i need exactly which issue and when.
Thanks in advance.
Respectfully,
Fouad