ISSUES | spring 2022
45.1 (Spring 2022): “Now and Forever”
Inside: 2021 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize winners, Michael Millner on the Jack Kerouac Archive, poetry from Kelli Russell Agodon and David Moolten, prose from Joy Baglio, John Fulton, Peter Mountford, Susan Neville, and William Roebuck. Plus: Jessie Tarbox Beal’s Greenwich Village Photographs, and the Art of Assemblage.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Features
Jul 19 2023
Foreword: Now and Forever
Now and Forever History reveals enduring storylines and conflicts, distinct in each incarnation yet persistent: the plagues of the sixth, ninth, fourteenth, and nineteenth centuries in Europe; the mutual depopulations… read more
Editors' Prize Winner
Jul 19 2023
Everychild
Everychild Alix Christie It should have been their senior year. Everychild was seventeen going on a hundred, what with everything that lay ahead. They were pale after months chained to… read more
Editor's Prize Winner
Jul 19 2023
7 Poems
Rage Jennifer Perrine I’ve been told my placid attitude must hide some menace. Mostly, it doesn’t. Mostly, I’m content to kick back in the sun, flicking at any mosquitos bold… read more
Editors' Prize Winner
Jul 19 2023
Lost Birds of the Pacific
Lost Birds of the Pacific Matthew Wamser Here’s a story: Craggy outcroppings of rock litter the Cook Strait between the two big islands of New Zealand, like shards of… read more
Fiction
Jul 19 2023
Love of Her Life
Love of Her Life Peter Mountford Angie Donald’s graveside service takes place on a frozen hill between Loch Ness and Loch Mhòr—snow blowing up the pallbearers’ kilts, pinkening their… read more
Fiction
Jul 19 2023
They Could Have Been Yours
They Could Have Been Yours Joy Baglio It’s 8 am on a Monday, and I’m curled in bed, eating cereal from a plastic bowl and browsing the Site, indulging… read more
Fiction
Jul 19 2023
The Flounder
The Flounder John Fulton Despite the fact that Marian had told Daniel the night before their trip to France that she had slept with someone at her conference that weekend,… read more
Poetry
Jul 19 2023
6 Poems
Poem Where We Are All Trying Our Best Even Though We Will Not Make It Out of Here Alive Kelli Russell Agodon When I looked to the night sky,… read more
Poetry
Jul 19 2023
6 Poems
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as One-Act Ballet David Moolten You rise from a horizontal pas de deux, lurch around with her in the muscle car to the stereo’s quake, the backdrop bowling,… read more
Nonfiction
Jul 19 2023
Kerouac’s Archive Fever at One Hundred
Kerouac’s Archive Fever at One Hundred Michael Millner There is no Hollywood biopic of Jack Kerouac, who turned one hundred on March 12, 2022. The absence of this fashionable variety… read more
Nonfiction
Jul 19 2023
My Bedeviled Country
My Bedeviled Country Susan Neville I have in my mind a special room with iron doors. The things I don’t like I throw in there and slam the doors. … read more
Art
Jul 19 2023
Boxed In: The Art of Assemblage
Boxed In: The Art of Assemblage The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one’s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes… read more
Criticism
Jul 19 2023
Reading Projects
Reading Projects By William Roebuck Some people collect stamps. Others throw axes or play quidditch. From the Middle English term, hobyn, denoting a toy horse and hence an activity done… read more