Winter/Spring 2018
Somewhere Nowhere
Issue 45
Somewhere Nowhere offers compelling literature and art that promises to challenge the mind and tempt the heart. From Scott Rettberg's essay exploring the uneasy aesthetics of emerging digital technology to Keith Stahl's story probing familial tensions, readers will enjoy a variety of prose in this issue. Additionally, poetry from Neil Shepard, Aaron Novick and Elisa Karbin, among others, promises to delight and provoke. As always, this issue also includes several reviews longtime readers have come to expect.
Here is our web extra from the print edition, "Cemetery by the Sea," by Paul Valéry translated by Anna Schaffer.
Neil Shepard
poetry
Volterra, Again; Lines Written at Tyrone Guthrie
Jennifer Pruiett-Selby
poetry
State Park at Daybreak; Hesiod's Dream: Creation
Diane Payne
story
3 Micro Memoirs
Paul Valéry translated by Anna Schaffer
poetry
Cemetery by the Sea
Esteban Rodriguez
poetry
Lotería; Scarecrow
James Terry
story
It's an Uphill Climb
Aaron Novick
poetry
Fleeing Ghost; Cicada
Varun Ravindran
poetry
Melville at the Customs House; Pulse
Elisa Karbin
poetry
A Longing for Wilderness Reveals Itself
George Kalamaras
poetry
If a Black Cat Licks Her Fur the Wrong Way, It Will Either Rain or Trouble Will Come to the Family
Michael Homolka
poetry
Graduate Degree
Keith Stahl
story
Not Even a Mouse
Jonathan Greenhause
poetry
Un incendio difícil de traducir
Susan Rich
poetry
Leaving the Shadow Box
Leaving the Shadow Box (audio)
Mark Scroggins
poetry
Sinister Harlequin
Jonathan Stalling
interlanguage poetry & translation
Elocution Made Easy
Kumbulani Zamuchiya & Chido Johnson
call & response
Skype & Mix
David Moolten
poetry
Oklahoma Denies Inmate's Request for a Buddhist Monk in the Death Chamber
Igor Webb
essay
Letter to Louise Gluck
Dennis Daly
review
Into the Labyrinth: the Construction of a 21st Century Poetics
Kevin O'Connor
review
Beyond History
Contributors
Heather Treseler
poetry
Hera: Memorandum on the Latter-Day Leda; Hephaestus: a Memoir in 'M'
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
poetry
The Geometry of Donald Judd; The Invisible Puvis Figure; The Other Woman's Hat
Christopher Linforth
story
Restoration
Marc Vincenz
poetry
Ode to a Metalworker from Sumerian Heaven; When a Single Secret World is Spoken
Martin Ott
poetry
The Things They Burned; Concrete Evidence
Greg Leatherman
poetry
Trinidad Pearls
John Matthias
essay
At Large: The Dedication of a Sculpture for Notre Dame Poets
Fiona Pitt-Kethley
story
The House of the Alchemist
Kayvan Tahmasebian translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould & Kayvan Tahmasebian
poetry
The Fetus of the Text; Shah's Mosque
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
poetry
Parrots
Michael Derrick Hudson
poetry
Failure of Imagination After Seeing Photos of Pluto Sent Back from the New Horizons Space Probe
Martha Silano
poetry
Nearly Every Songbird on Earth Is Eating Plastic
Nearly Every Songbird on Earth is Eating Plastic (Audio)
William Kelley Woolfitt
poetry
Jarena Lee Preaches at Buffalo Village
Gary Lemons
poetry
The Big Empty; Flat Earth; The Biter Bit
Rebecca Foust
poetry
the best thing a man ever said to me
Daneen Wardrop
poetry
Chillburn
Phong Luu
poetry
Our Own Pablo Neruda
Scott Rettberg
essay
Place and No Place: Reflections on Panorama, Glitch, and Photoshpheres in an Aesthetic Imaginary Shared by Humans and Machines
William O'Rourke
review
Richard & Roger
Hank Lazer
review
Welling, Replenishing: Richard Berengarten's Changing and the I Ching
Mark Scroggins
review
Art, Sacrament, Anamnesis