Summer/Fall 2022: Mother Tongue (Issue #54)

Mother Tongue

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.

Contributors

Michael Anania

Poetry

Your Fancy and Your Sight

Interview

Diane Mehta

Poetry

Briefly I Floated Over Sea Islands; The Mad Pursuit

Roald Hoffmann

Poetry

Crows Over Sobibor; A Short Flora of the Galapagos

Author Commentary

Patricia Corbus

Poetry

La Vie en Orange

Daniel Uncapher

Story

“Wittgenstein’s Butterknife”

Eloise Klein Healy

Poetry

My Life Before

Kate Deimling

Poetry

Eve (audio)

Author Commentary

Rebecca Foust

Story

Steward

Fortunato Salazar

Poetry

H.HOM. 8; H.HOM. 9

Meleager Translations

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

Author Commentary Webpage Interview

Christopher Munde

Poetry

Maximilian Maria Kolbe

Maximilian Maria Kolbe (audio) Additional Poetry

Gregory Wolff

Poetry

Anne Frank; Glass

Kelli Russell Agodon

Poetry

Once I loved a Buddhist with a stubborn heart

Author Commentary Webpage Reading with poet Maggie Smith

Tom Hansen

Poetry

Road Signs

Radha Marcum

Poetry

October Wind (audio)

Robert Grunst

Poetry

Two Sad Apples

Additional Material

William Wells

Poetry

In the Museum of Forgetting

John McCarthy

Poetry

Aubade

Aubade (audio) Author Commentary Webpage

Marjorie Stelmach

Poetry

All You Need

Leslie Adrienne Miller

Poetry

Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius

Elgar's Dream of Gerontius (audio) Webpage Poets.org

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

TED Talk Webpage On Writing Micro-Memoirs

G.C. Waldrep

Poetry

Pageant

Charles Harper Webb

Poetry

Tortoises Don't Like to Swim

Interview Webpage

Taylor Supplee

Poetry

God walking near at hand, furred

Adele NeJame

Poetry

What Is Left Behind

Expanded Bio Webpage 2022 Maryse & Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture

Rimas Uzgiris

Poetry

Pilgrimage

Personal Essay Interview Video of Poem Reading

Rebecca Foust

Poetry

Shine & Blur; Water

Kristen Brida

Poetry

Letters to Philomela (audio)

Additional Poetry Two Poems That TIme I met Helen of Troy in the Underworld

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

The Ghost Sonata

John Blair

Poetry

Aphorism 28: Happiness Is Wherever You Are Not

Callie Smith

Poetry

Globus Hystericus

Robin Tung

Story

How Much I Love You

Webpage

Claire Scott

Poetry

Memory Goes on Without Us

Courtney McDermott

Story

Taking Back Language

Author Commentary Webpage

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)