Summer/Fall 2017
Making Things Fit
Issue 44
Making Things Fit runs the gamut from veteran contributors to a first-time publication anywhere, meaning readers will enjoy an eclectic blend of prose and poetry in this issue of NDR. Enjoy fiction from Ace Boggess, J Bloom, and Ilya Leybovich, to name a few. Also reflect on the diverse poetic styles of Saima Afreen, Moira Linehan, George Looney, and John J. Ronan, among others. Round out your reading experience with several thoughtful reviews found in this volume.
Here is our web extra from the print edition, "Homage to Glenn Gould," by Anthony Walton.
Ace Boggess
story
A Minor Celebrity
Michael Salcman
poetry
Ten Reflections on Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963)
Jill Logan
story
Take Me to the Place Where They Buried Golden Cloud
Peter Cooley
poetry
A Premature Afterlife; Mayfly Colloquy
Alexander Russell
story
The Man in the Shed
Lidia Kosk translated by Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka
poetry
To Find a Blade of Grass; Before It Comes
Rebecca Mark
story
A Spirit Kindred
Peter Marcus
poetry
Song for Old Roads Home
Scott Brennan
poetry
The Flag Attractiveness Scale; Thoreau's Beard
The Flag Attractiveness Scale (audio)
Moira Linehan
poetry
Ars Poetica
J Bloom
story
Molly
Stuart Greenhouse
poetry
Report from the Field
Jeannine Hall Gailey
poetry
On Being Told You're Dying, But Not Quite Believing It
Ilya Leybovich
story
The Debt Collector
Paulann Petersen
poetry
Semblance; Nested
Stephen Massimilla
poetry
The Grisly Messengers; Harvest; After the Ritual of Descent
Chaya Bhuvaneswar
story
Calvinism
Adam Day
poetry
Kiru XXXXXXXXXVII
Karina Borowicz
poetry
Circle
’Gbenga Adeoba
poetry
Middle Passage
Anthony Walton
poetry
Homage to Glenn Gould
Peter Michelson
review
The Best of the Sixties Reprised
Mark Scroggins
review
Nature Naturing
Zachary Anderson
review
This Is The Homeland short
Zachary Anderson
review
IRL short
Contributors
Michael Anania
poetry
Adjacent Spirits; Pearl Millet; The Dancer at the Arrayan (11/12/11)
Saima Afreen
poetry
What No One Knows About Fire; Ceramic Vases of Chunar
Herbert Woodward Martin
poetry
Twelve Black Crows; Translucent Fish Scales; Villanelle for an Auspicious Occasion
F. Daniel Rzicznek
poetry
Former Habitat; Bok Choy
Scott Withiam
poetry
Hard Candy
Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka
poetry
Painting Margaret
Juan Felipe Herrera and Luis Lopez-Maldonado
interview
Juan Felipe Herrera In Conversation with Luis Lopez-Maldonado
Jerry Harp
poetry
The Reckoning; Sunday Evening
Lesley Wheeler
poetry
Traces; Live From the Surface of the Moon
Lana Bella
poetry
Dark Water
Charles Harper Webb
poetry
Response to an E-Mail from Abdul Rahman Omar, Aircraft Engineer
John J. Ronan
poetry
Have You Taken Leave of Your Senses
Have You Taken Leave of Your Senses (audio)
George Looney
poetry
Against Memory, the Lights of Cottages
Marjorie Stelmach
poetry
The Field of What Could Be; Oh, Stay
Oh, Stay and The Field of What Could Be (audio)
Tim Kahl
poetry
Kaweah
Johnny Horton
poetry
Sea Change; Vampyres
Michael McMahon
poetry
Chant; Purgatory
Mary Gilliland
poetry
Is a transcendently beautiful place not to be ours?; The Old Man Brought Home
Jeff Albers
story
My Appearance
Patrick Kindig
poetry
all the catholic gods: st. joan; all the catholic gods: st. sebastian
all the catholic gods: st. joan (audio)
all the catholic gods: st. sebastian
William O'Rourke
review
Patty Prevails
Paul Pines
review
Gathering Sparks in the Dark
Abigail Burns
review
A Bestiary short