Summer/Fall 2016
Imagine Being
Issue 42
Imagine Being pushes at boundaries and challenges the comfort zone with intriguing works by Chris Campanioni, Martin Nakell, Aila Olsen, and Kim Chinquee, among others. Readers will also enjoy poetry by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, Kevin Hart, Andres Rojas, and Carol Lischau to name a few. Combined with new translations, reviews and essays, Issue #42 will satisfy the soul and mind.
Here is our web extra from the print edition, "Making Poverty More Bearable," by William O'Rourke.
Geng Xue
cover art
Mr. Sea
Susanne Davis
story
The Appointed Hour
Matthew Landrum
poetry
Fragments of Granada; The Last Page
Martin Nakell
story
He Lay
Aila Olsen
catalog entry
There's No Place Like Time: A Retrospective on the Films of Alana Olsen (an excerpt)
Author Photo (Andi & Lance Olsen)
Donald Platt
poetry
Death & Crocuses
Alex Dreppec
poetry
The Rearguard of the Passers-By
Kate Bernheimer and Bret Nye
interview
Kate Bernheimer in Conversation with Bret Nye
Suzanne Parker
poetry
It Is Raining Inside My Skin
Jorge Luis Borges translated by Pablo Medina
poetry
Ars Poetica; Hengist Wants Men (A.D. 449)
Robert Levy
poetry
Zappa en Regalia
Jacob Boyd
poetry
Elegy With Chorus Singing Al Green
Mark Statman
poetry
Collapsing Question; Meeting; Spires
Jade Walker
story
Lupita
Cait Weiss
poetry
Spring in Genesta; Portrait of Family with Lana Turner
Family Portrait with Lana Turner (audio)
Robert Lietz
poetry
Visconti
Peter Markus
story
Blue Fox in a White Woods
Chris Campanioni
story
In a place where everybody
Richard Kelly Kemick
poetry
Caribou's Shadow
Benjamin S. Grossberg
poetry
An Apology
William O'Rourke
essay
Making Poverty More Bearable
J.D. Garrick
review
Eliot's Sacred and Profane Dances: Four Seasons of a Wide Mind
Carolyn Gelland
review
Words in Orbit
Contributors
Pablo Medina
poetry
Song of the Broken Road
Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Paul Weinfield
poetry
Maybe I Am Traveling (From The Book of Hours)
G.C. Waldrep
poetry
The Fane of Pastoral Poetry: Eight Days and Seven Nights at Stowe
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
poetry
Patmos of Revelations
Kim Chinquee
essay
Recoil
Danna Ephland
poetry
Still Life with Smokestack, Chickens; Dinnertime
Kate Bernheimer
story
The Punk's Bride
Andres Rojas
poetry
Kitty Hawk
Bruce Lawder
flash fiction
Memorial; Guards and Prisoners; Country of Bridges
Carol Lischau
poetry
After One Year
Laura Leigh Morris
story
May Ours Be as Happy as Yours
Inna Kabysh translated by Katherine E. Young
poetry
Untitled ["Dacha: hot strawberry childhood"]; Untitled ["This is my model school"]
Rodrigo Toscano
poetry
From Explosion Rocks Springfield
Davis Schneiderman
story
He Do the Poultice in Different Voices
Francis Ponge translated by Joshua Corey and Jean-Luc Garneau
poetry
Butterfly
Kevin Hart
poetry
The Future; Heaven: A Memoir; Summer in Melbourne
James Matthew Wilson
poetry
The Great State of Alaska; On a Picture Frame
Lee Upton
story
A Story's End
Kajal Ahmad translated by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, Barbara Goldberg, Mewan Nahro Said Sofi, and Darya Abdul-Karin Ali Najm
poetry
Our Holocaust (Excerpt)
John Matthias and Larry Siems
interview
At Large: An Interview with Larry Siems, Part Two
J.D. Garrick
review
Eliot's Sacred and Profane Dances: Four Seasons of a Wide Mind
Daniel Morris
review
"A book about the margin": Personal Memory and the Fate of Libraries in Ander Monson's Letter to a Future Lover