Summer 2020-Spring 2021
Milestone 50: The Anniversary Issue
Issue 50-51
Welcome to our 25th anniversary issue: Milestone 50! We present a retrospective of the past quarter century of NDR. This issue features pieces by writers who were established veterans, as well as those who were up-and-coming at the time of original publication. Many of those newcomers have since gone on to become successful and lauded writers, which highlights the importance literary journals such as ours hold in introducing new and important voices to a broad audience. You will find works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Eugene WIldman, Moira Linehan, John Kinsella, Mary Jo Bang, Susanne Kort, John Peck, and Denise Levertov, among many others in the pages of this very special issue. So sit back, enjoy, and remember.
Here is our web extra from the print edition, Brian Michael Barbeito's Indigo Gemini Seven.
NDR Editors
introduction
NDR 50: The Anniversary Issue
Denise Levertov
poetry
Bearing the Light
Julia Budenz
poetry
Lauro
Beryl Schlossman
poetry
Angelus Novus 1
Kymberly Taylor
poetry
Light Breathing
Renée Ashley
poetry
Some Other Woman Speaks to Elpenore After His Fall from Circe’s Roof
Göran Printz-Påhlson
poetry
In the Style of Scott Skinner
Gordon T. Osing
poetry
Nine Captains Defining the Eye
Heather O’Shea Gordon
poetry
Wild Horses
Eavan Boland
poetry
The Harbour
Suzanne Paola
poetry
Christ in the World of Matter
Michael Martone
story
Fragments from the Blue Guide to Indiana
Charles Simic
poetry
De Occulta Philosophia
Libby Bernardin
poetry
Whale
Martha Gies
story
October Song
Ken Smith
poetry
Noises Off
William McGee, Jr.
story
The Bee Hive
Melita Schaum
poetry
Girl at the Window
Kathleen McGookey
poetry
Another Drowning, Miner Lake
Robert Crawford
poetry
Knowledge
Teresa Iverson
poetry
Grandmother Crow
Sharon Cournoyer
poetry
Two Homings
Geoff Schmidt
story
The Grinch Does Penance, Or, A Survey of Western Literature
Annie Finch
poetry
A Letter for Emily Dickinson
Anthony Libby
poetry
Film Noir
Malinda Markham
poetry
Who Does Not Love the Figure Before Them
Jill Peláez Baumgaertner
poetry
What Cannot Be Fixed
Jeff Allen
story
Hard Grammar
Jennifer Atkinson
poetry
First and Last
John Kinsella
poetry
Geotelepathy
Stephanie Strickland
poetry
WaveSon.net 18
Sandra Kohler
poetry
Distance
Diane Mehta
poetry
Kaleidoscope
Susan Terris
poetry
From the Wing of a Crane
Sandra Alcosser
poetry
Mare Frigoris
John Phillip Santos
poetry
Chiapas Sonnets
Eileen Berry
poetry
Morning of the Suk
Robert Bense
poetry
Pavanes for 5
Cynthia Hogue
poetry
Memory Y
Jeffrey Levine
poetry
The Herbalist
Joanne Diaz
poetry
Mendeleev
Christopher Merrill
poetry
Salt
Sofia M. Starnes
poetry
The Scarf
Moira Linehan
poetry
Praise Him in the Temple of the Present*
Richard Garcia
poetry
Adam and Eve’s Dog
David Citino
poetry
From Ohio Briefs: Dad Kills Son in Hunting Accident
Brian Swann
poetry
Metaphor
Raza Ali Hasan
poetry
The Walled Garden Unveiled
Mary Quade
poetry
Lawn Shrines: Bathtub Virgins
Jan Lee Ande
poetry
The Ghost of a Flea: (Tempera on mahogany with gold leaf, c. 1819)
Davis Schneiderman and Tom Denlinger
story
Monument to Indian Native First Nations American Tenacity in the Stacked Face of Continual Misrepresentation
R. M. Berry
story
from Untitled
Sheryl Luna
poetry
Sonata on Original Sin
Gerard Malanga
poetry
César Vallejo
Gavin Adair
poetry
Heart
Patrick Oh
poetry
Leaving
Peter Nohrnberg
poetry
First Settlers
Kim Chinquee
flash fiction
Unpacking My Stuff; Base Recreation
R. T. Smith
poetry
Pentecost
Shane Seely
poetry
Elegy for Anthony Piccione
Nathaniel Tarn
poetry
The Island Weavers
Jill Talbot
poetry
Wild Horses
Clive Wilmer
poetry
Bottom’s Dream
Kass Fleisher
essay
Truth in Advertising: Forming and Performing Nonfiction
Jason Tandon
poetry
What We Burn
Khaled Mattawa
poetry
Before Huron
Rebecca Dunham
poetry
Negative
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
poetry
RR Lyrae: Supernova
Taylor Graham
poetry
Cadastral
Julia Hansen
poetry
Pastorale
Miles Waggener
poetry
Landfall
Elaine Feinstein
poetry
Piaf in Babraham
David Matlin
story
California City
Steve Myers
poetry
Waking
Faisal Siddiqui
poetry
Iqra
Michael Salcman
poetry
How the Trick Is Done
Siobhan Phillips
poetry
Domestication
Anthony Opal
poetry
Arcing
Floyd Skloot
poetry
Shakedown
Carrie Etter
poetry
English Summer
Brady Rhoades
poetry
A Parade in Galway
Taylor Altman
poetry
Pale Country
William Archila
poetry
The Gravedigger’s Archaeology
Elizabeth Langemak
poetry
Wedding Love
Rebecca Foust
poetry
Rat Diptych
Lisa Ampleman
poetry
Quarry
John Fenlon Hogan
poetry
Thurifer
Nancy Naomi Carlson
poetry
Yom Kippur
Robert Gibb
poetry
Pittsburgh Photographs
Michael Anania
poetry
Three Italian Painted Doors
Donald Levering
poetry
Coveting Dr. Freud’s Shoes
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
poetry
Portrait and Condition
Adrian Castro
poetry
The Body at the End of Ineffable
Charles Harper Webb
poetry
Multicultural
Kathryn Merwin
poetry
The Emperor
Jade Walker
story
Lupita
Matthew Landrum
poetry
Fragments of Granada
Amanda Nicole Corbin
story
By the Bone
Felicia Zamora
poetry
Same River
Saima Afreen
poetry
What No One Knows About Fire
Lana Bella
poetry
Dark Water
Diane Payne
story
3 Micro Memoirs
January Pearson
poetry
Prayer Along Crystal Cove
henry 7. reneau, jr.
poetry
Barack & Michelle Obama Gone Ghetto #1 & #2
Richard Berengarten
poetry
Poem for Joe
G. C. Waldrep
poetry
Lay Geometry (II)
Frank Rogaczewski
manifesto-poem
Toward Smart-Ass Proletarian Poetry
Becca Klaver
poem-essay
Walking After Midnight or 9 P.M.
Ravi Shankar
poetry
Laloo, the Handsome, Healthy, Happy Hindoo
Ned Balbo
poetry
A Line of Laughing Gulls
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
poetry
euphemism // or the land of babel
Suphil Lee Park
poetry
Song of No Trust
Katie Lehman
poetry
Night Eye
Contributors
Richard Elman
story
Namedropping
Marilyn Krysl
poetry
Mandala
Ernest Sandeen
poetry
An Affair
Wendy Battin
poetry
And the Two Give Birth to the Myriad of Things
Renée Ashley
poetry
Some Other Woman Speaks to Elpenore After His Fall from Circe’s Roof
Jennifer Anna Gosetti
poetry
Malaria Sheltering
Richard Tillinghast
poetry
Coming To
Barry Goldensohn
poetry
Richard II
John Peck
poetry
Passage
Catherine Daly
poetry
Six White Horses
Pattiann Rogers
poetry
…And the Indivisible Universe…
Lorrie Goldensohn
poetry
Semiotics
Mary Jo Bang
poetry
Pandora
Marcela Sulak
poetry
Valessko
Linda Scheller
poetry
Harvest
Corrinne Clegg Hales
poetry
Girl at a Barbed Wire Fence
Page Dougherty Delano
poetry
Danbury Women
Eugene Wildman
story
The Last Days of Atlantis
Alison Jarvis
poetry
The Same Hour Has Come Inside My Body
Orlando Ricardo Menes
poetry
Bitter Algae
Samuel Hazo
poetry
Cezanne's Atelier Near Aix
Julianna Baggott
poetry
After Eleven Days of Rain
Robert McNamara
poetry
When My Mother Came Back from Barbados
Corinna Vallianatos
poetry
Boy Loading Wagon; Father "Overcome by Despair"
Michael Perkins
poetry
El Desdichado
Jere Odell
poetry
Silverfish
Anthony Walton
poetry
Postcolonial
Mark Halperin
poetry
The Elegant Ladies of Tallinn
Kevin Prufer
poetry
The Empire Was Falling
Feebe Greco
story
Mid-Morning in America
Martin Galvin
poetry
The Talking Man at Home
Janet Holmes
poetry
Theremin
Seamus Deane
story
D.
Sarah Bowman
poetry
Muck Fires
Brad Buchanan
poetry
The Other Edge
Tony Whedon
poetry
Ovid’s Grave
Robert Parham
poetry
Writing in Spite of Borges
Simone Muench
poetry
The Melos of Medusa
Sean Singer
poetry
The Gift
Debora Greger
poetry
The Parakeets of Amsterdam
John Latta
poetry
Xenolithic
Henry Hart
poetry
Psyche
Valerie Martínez
poetry
Heritage
Silvia Curbelo
poetry
Fifteen
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
story
Recaptured Spirits
Jude Nutter
poetry
Grave Robbing with Rilke
Jay Rogoff
poetry
Shadow
Martin Walls
poetry
Variation on ‘Song’ by Guillevic
Patricia Corbus
poetry
Rushing Heaven
Debra Di Blasi
story
Czechoslovakian Rhapsody Sung to the Accompaniment of Piano
Simeon Berry
poetry
Reconstruction
Martha Zweig
poetry
Counter-Fable
Supritha Rajan
poetry
Inventing the Past
Marc J. Straus
poetry
The Neckless Pelican
Cynthia Sowers
poetry
In Chains
Emmy Pérez
poetry
Look at You
W. S. Merwin
poetry
The First Days
Kevin Ducey
poetry
Who’s your friend?
K. E. Duffin
poetry
Ivorybill
L. S. Klatt
poetry
The Persecutors
Barbara Jane Reyes
poetry
Estuary 2
Joseph A. Buttigieg
essay
Aesthetic Pleasures in the Company of Edward W. Said
Carmen Firan
poetry
last impression
Kelli Russell Agodon
poetry
What the Universe Makes of Lingerie
Lynn Pattison
poetry
Simple
Lily Hoang
story
Medicating
Ed Falco
story
Smothered Mate
Piotr Florczyk
poetry
Second Language
Haines Eason
poetry
The Family and the Fishing Net
Tarfia Faizullah
poetry
Aubade: Ramadan
Scott Brennan
poetry
In the Fruit Cellar Workshop
John Ashbery
poetry
Soeur Monique
David Moolten
poetry
Sodom
Mark Wagenaar
poetry
Orpheus Amongst the Fishbones
Kelcey Parker
story
Estate Sale at the Interior Castle
Peg Boyers
poetry
Ambition of Sand
David Wagoner
poetry
Finding My Way
Oliver Rice
poetry
Descartes Among the Weed Woman
Susanne Kort
poetry
Flotilla
Nicholas Wong
poetry
Privilege of Morning
Rebecca Hazelton
poetry
The Heart Is an Indifferent Animal
Sean Beld
poetry
Ars Poetica
Peter Robinson
poetry
When the Leaves Drift
Alfred Corn
poetry
Hanging Out to Dry
Peter Marcus
poetry
Scales, Sevastopol
Herbert Woodward Martin
poetry
On Reading Rita Dove’s “Parsley”
Eva Mary Hooker
poetry
Saltbush
William Kelley Woolfitt
poetry
Inside the Boarded-Up Slaughterhouse
Philip Fried
poetry
God as Float
Amina Gautier
story
Breathe
Angela Leighton
poetry
Remembering Chopin at Valdemossa
Ace Boggess
story
Whitebriar
Mary Gilliland
poetry
Ember Days
Kate Bernheimer
story
The Punk’s Bride
Pablo Medina
poetry
Song of the Broken Road
Christine Estima
story
A Yelp Review of My Last Date
Mona T. Lydon-Rochelle
poetry
Mallarmé Meets Valéry
Virginia Konchan
poetry
Ars Poetics
James Terry
story
It's an Uphill Climb
Greg Leatherman
poetry
Trinidad Pearls
Aaron Novick
poetry
Cicada
Daniel Tobin
poetry
From “This Broken Symmetry”
Kathleen de Azevedo
story
The Tower of Babble
Jerry Harp
poetry
Cosmology
Kevin Phan
poetry
[At Oldorf’s Hospice House of Mercy]
Vi Khi Nao
story
Pulverized Oat Wheels
Noy Holland
story
Blood Country
Sasha West
poetry
The Uncanny Valley of the World
Fred Arroyo
poetry
Rock God
Heather Treseler
poetry
Parturition
Elline Lipkin
poetry
Two Braids