Summer/Fall 2021
New Life
Issue 52
New Life offers a new look into the stellar prose and poetry you've come to expect from NDR. This issue features fiction from Adam Byko, Natalie Storey, and John Vanderslice, as well as poetry from Mary Gilliland, David Moolten, and Honora Ankong. Indulge in a needed respite from the stress of pandemic with Issue 52.
Here is our web extra from the print edition, William O'Rourke's A Covid-19 Journal: Intermittent Speculations.
David Moolten
poetry
Rocket Man; Bodhisattva
Rocket Man (audio)
Bodhisattva (audio)
Kathryne Gargano
poetry
Another Earth
Christina Pugh
poetry
from The Right Hand
Honora Ankong
poetry
From Here I Saw What Happened and Cried; This is the last poem I write about Cameroon
John Vanderslice
story
Before
Peter Bethanis
poetry
Li Po Returns from the Mountains
Naïma Msechu
interview
Lucy Corin in Conversation with Naïma Msechu
Ae Hee Lee
poetry
Paper; Drinking Alone After the Rain Stops
Donovan McAbee
poetry
Kiwi Shoe Polish
Kiwi Shoe Polish (audio)
William O'Rourke
journal
A Covid-19 Journal: Intermittent Speculations
Harriet Levin
poetry
Kaleidoscopic
Diane Thiel
poetry
Time Won't Do It; Kummerspeck
Time Won't Do It (audio file)
Kummerspeck (audio file)
Kevin J. B. O'Connor
poetry
For an Imperfect Poetry
Eliot Khalil Wilson
poetry
At Some Remove; Touching the Driver
Joshua Shapiro
story
The Conjecture
Gauri Awasthi
poetry
Lotus-Fishing at J. K. Temple
Martha Silano
poetry
What They Said; Pine Siskins
Herbert Woodward Martin
poetry
Sharecropper‘s Record: Or How My Guitar Got the Name Lucille
Elizabeth Rees
poetry
Occupied
George McDermott
poetry
Conchobhar's Repose
Mark Scroggins
review
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Lesley Wheeler
poetry
Dark Energy; Carpenter Ant with Zombie Fungus
Natalie Storey
story
Kittens in the Medina
John Kinsella
poetry
The Winter Hay Kings of Maam Cross, Galway
Fabián González González
poetry
Carry These Across
Sydney Lea
poetry
Mythology; A Late Moment
Mike Schneider
poetry
Trapper with Nona
Lucy Corin
excerpt
from The Swank Hotel
Rebecca O'Bern
poetry
How It Happened
Michael O'Ryan
poetry
Wiesensteig, 1562; Eros with Glossolalia and Skeptic
Daniel Tobin
poetry
from “AT THE GRAVE OF TEILHARD DE CHARDIN”
Kirsten Hemmy
poetry
Rainy Season in the Middle East
Rainy Season in the Middle East (audio)
Adam Byko
story
Snakes and Stones
Robert Gibb
poetry
Memory Theater
Lisa Ampleman
poetry
Stop Holding on to Me
Samuel Piccone
poetry
All Told
Lauren Winchester
poetry
Penny Into the Fountain
Derek Updegraff
story
The Found Story of Guy Nielson, Last Saved 1/9/2001 10:14 pm
Michael Hettich
poetry
Core
Mary Gilliland
poetry
Lit With Radiance
Lit With Radiance (audio)
Ginny Wiehardt
poetry
Tatting in the Ancient Playground
Ella Schmidt
review
Girlhood‘s Noose: On Heather Treseler‘s Parturition