Issue 31/2 is a special double issue, featuring
nationally renowned American writers and
nine translation folios with generous selections of work by
internationally known writers from
Argentina, French-Speaking
Belgium,
Germany,
Greece,
Mexico,
Poland, the,
South Korea, and the Galician Region of
Spain.
The issue includes:
Poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner
Yusef Komunyakaa; National Book Award finalist and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner
Carl Phillips; Guggenheim Fellows
Terese Svoboda,
David Kirby, and
Mark Halliday; two-time Lambda Literary Award winner
Maureen Seaton; Rockefeller Foundation Fellow
Pablo Medina; Lenore Marshall Prize winner
Craig Morgan Teicher; Kresge Arts Foundation and Kundiman Fellow
Matthew Olzmann; Ohioana Book Award winner
Ruth Awad; Kundiman Prize winner
Janine Joseph; Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award winner
G. C. Waldrep; Lambda Literary Award finalist
Randall Mann; as well as
Michael Bazzett,
Jehanne Dubrow,
Sarah Gridley,
Joy Katz,
Hailey Leithauser,
Claire Wahmanholm, and many others.
Fiction by
Maxim Loskutoff, an NPR Best Book author and New York Times Editor's Pick; as well as by
Cara Blue Adams,
Gerri Brightwell,
Aidan Forster,
Ryan Habermeyer,
Nihal Mubarak, and
Carolyn Oliver.
Nonfiction by PEN Center USA Literary Award and California Book Award winner
Victoria Chang, art and literature critic
Robert Archambeau (writing on the "spirituality" of Andy Warhol), and relative newcomer
Caroline Plasket.
Translation Folios with poetry by
Filipino poet Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (translated by Kristine Ong Muslim),
Mexican poet Cesar Cañedo (translated by Whitney DeVos), (translated by Jennifer Kronovet),
Franco-Belgian poet Guy Goffette (translated by Marilyn Hacker),
Greek poet Dimitra Kotoula (translated by Maria Nazos),
Polish poet Ewa Lipska (translated by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska,
South Korean poet Moon Bo Young (translated by Hedgie Choi),
Galician/Spanish poet Chus Pato (translated by Erín Moure), and
Argentinian fiction writer, journalist, and political martyr Rodolfo Walsh (translated by Cindy Schuster).
The cover features work by New York-based artist and Gordon Parks Foundation fellow
Derrick Adams, whose work has shown nationally and been featured on the television shows
Empire and
Insecure.