Summer/Fall 2022
Mother Tongue
Issue 54
We are proud to present Mother Tongue, issue 54 of the Notre Dame Review. We hope you will enjoy stories from Bruce Lawder and Robin Tung, among others, as well as poetry from Christopher Munde, Rebecca Foust, and Stephen Gibson.
Here is our web extra from the print version, Peter Robinson's review Everything That Is the Case.
Michael Anania
poetry
Your Fancy and Your Sight
Diane Mehta
poetry
Briefly I Floated Over Sea Islands; The Mad Pursuit
Roald Hoffmann
poetry
Crows Over Sobibor; A Short Flora of the Galapagos
Patricia Corbus
poetry
La Vie en Orange
Daniel Uncapher
story
“Wittgenstein’s Butterknife”
Eloise Klein Healy
poetry
My Life Before
Kate Deimling
poetry
Eve
Eve (audio)
Rebecca Foust
story
Steward
Fortunato Salazar
poetry
H.HOM. 8; H.HOM. 9
Julia Moncur
story
How to Put a Baby to Sleep
Natalie Solmer
poetry
Stairwell into the Drum of the Earth; The Psychic Medium Saw Lots of Horses
Christopher Munde
poetry
Maximilian Maria Kolbe
Maximilian Maria Kolbe (audio)
Gregory Wolff
poetry
Anne Frank; Glass
Kelli Russell Agodon
poetry
Once I loved a Buddhist with a stubborn heart
Author Photo (Photo credit: Jeannine Hall Gailey)
Reading with poet Maggie Smith
Tom Hansen
poetry
Road Signs
Radha Marcum
poetry
October Wind
October Wind (audio)
Robert Grunst
poetry
Two Sad Apples
William Wells
poetry
In the Museum of Forgetting
John McCarthy
poetry
Aubade
Aubade (audio)
Marjorie Stelmach
poetry
All You Need
Leslie Adrienne Miller
poetry
Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius
Elgar's Dream of Gerontius (audio)
Daniel Morris
review
Revisiting Jakarta: Internal Turmoil and State Violence in Poetry and Terror
Marc Vincenz
poetry
The Venetian Diaries
Beth Ann Fennelly
story
Four Micro Memoirs: A Woman's Head Is Not the Safest Place to Be; Dad Gave Us Twenty Dollars Which Was a Lot in 1979; While You Were Out; But You Can't Pick Your Family
G.C. Waldrep
poetry
Pageant
Charles Harper Webb
poetry
Tortoises Don't Like to Swim
Taylor Supplee
poetry
God walking near at hand, furred
Adele NeJame
poetry
What Is Left Behind
2022 Maryse & Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture
Rimas Uzgiris
poetry
Pilgrimage
Rebecca Foust
poetry
Shine & Blur; Water
Kristen Brida
poetry
Letters to Philomela
Letter to Philomela (audio)
Rosanne Smith
poetry
My Sorrows
Coleman Childress
poetry
Porch with Two Sonnets, TN
Robert Evory
poetry
Little Flags
Bruce Lawder
story
All the News That’s Fit to Print
John Blair
poetry
Aphorism 28: Happiness Is Wherever You Are Not
Callie Smith
poetry
Globus Hystericus
Robin Tung
story
How Much I Love You
Claire Scott
poetry
Memory Goes on Without Us
Courtney McDermott
story
Taking Back Language
Jane Satterfield
poetry
Punishment of a Hunter
Stephen Gibson
poetry
The Art of Poetry: Rome Broadcasting; The Art of Poetry: The Elegy; The Art of Poetry: The Confessional
Peter Robinson
review
Everything That Is the Case
Retrieved Attachments (Two Rivers Press, 2023)
The Personal Art: Essays, Reviews & Memoirs (Shearsman Books 2021)
Peter Robinson: A Portrait of his Work ed. Tom Phillips (Shearsman Books, 2021)