Summer 2018 Volume 40, Number 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

follow the bolded links for our 40.1 Sneak Peek

ART

Johanna Goodman, The Catalogue of Imaginary Beings, Plate No. 23

FICTION

Latifa Ayad, Arabic Lesson (2017 1/2 K Prize Winner)
Scott Garson, Search Your Feelings
Lo Yi-Chin, The Big Black Bird (Translated from the Chinese by Elaine Wong)
Callan Wink, The Fossil Record
Salvatore Pane, The Absolutely True Autobiography of Tony Rinaldi, The Man Who Changed Pro Wrestling Forever

POETRY

Conor Bracken, The Meniscus that Convex Quivers
Jessica Hudgins, Up Days
Taylor Johnson, This is a review for Blue in Green by Miles Davis
Taylor Johnson, Ode to eating watermelon on the couch while you sleep next to me
Francis Santana, Legion
Sun Yung Shin, I wandered into a mass extinction event
Sun Yung Shin, He said that we should turn back
Gabriela Garcia, The Boy is a Soap Bubble (Runner-up for the 2017 1/2 K Prize)
Jessica Lanay, Shitty Frida Kahlo Poem
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder, Letter of Welcome to the New Mistress
Kyle McCord, Chemo
Marlin M. Jenkins, Pokédex Entry #1: Bulbasaur
Justin Phillip Reed, You Is Flexible
Perry Janes, Parable of the Golem (Finalist for the 2017 1/2 K Prize)
Julian Randall, Mercy Mercy Him
Mia Ayumi Malhotra, 34 weeks 4 days, from MOTHERSALT
Kara Kai Wang, Timing
Christopher Soto, Transgender Security Airport
Nomi Stone, America
Nomi Stone, Fieldnotes from a Catastrophe

NONFICTION

Brenna Womer, We Are Not Saints
Amanda Giracca, On Stillness
Christopher Kempf, Lost Mode
Eliza Smith, Half-Moon (Runner-up for the 2017 1/2 K Prize)

FUTURES FOLIO

Amelia Brunskill, Outcomes
Terrance Hayes, American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin [You are like a pharaoh]
Terrance Hayes, [You know how]
Terrance Hayes, [Otherwise, home]
Terrance Hayes, [The saddest part of the story]
Quinn Lewis, Miss F. Tells Our Fortunes (Finalist for the 2017 1/2 K Prize)
Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice, Day of Rest
Justin Phillip Reed, Afterscape Ending in Old Glory
Justin Phillip Reed, from Quarantyne
Muriel Leung, Welcome to the Uncommons
S. Brook Corfman, Yearly
Mike Alberti, Pestilence
Katie Willingham, False or Not, I Came with a Pretext
Katie Willingham, Apocalypse (See Also: Utopia)

MASTHEAD

EDITOR

Tessa Yang

CONSULTING EDITOR

Su Cho

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Essence London

FICTION EDITOR

Anthony Correale

ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITORS

Brianna Barnes
Elizabeth Boyle
Anna Cabe
Mariah Gese
Soo Jin Lee
Gionni Ponce
Irene Zhao

POETRY EDITOR

Anni Liu

ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITORS

Soleil Davíd
Meredith Irvin
Hannah Kesling

POETRY READER

Anna Cabe

NONFICTION EDITOR

Anne Cabe

ASSOCIATE NONFICTION EDITORS

Brianna Barnes
Elizabeth Boyle
Gionni Ponce

NONFICTION READERS

Hannah Kesling
Anni Liu

WEB EDITOR

Hannah Kesling

EDITORIAL INTERNS

Bria Carter
Madeline Klein
Emilie Moss
Megan Riner
David Schell
Joshua Sutcliffe

PRIZE JUDGE

Donika Kelly, 2017 1/2 K Prize