33.1 Winter/Spring 2021 
Table of Contents
Authors in this issue: Micaela Bombard, Dorsey Craft, Rosa Alcalá, Stephanie Horvath, Eileen Myles, Jared Joseph, Ananda Lima, Matt W. Miller, Rusty Morrison, Kate Green, Chelsea B. DesAutels, Matt Bizzell, Veronica Roberts, Alex Jen, Erin Adair-Hodges, Nathaniel Mackey, Patrick Milian, Emmalea Russo, Kosiso Ugwueze, Francisco González, Yoko Ogawa, Lisa Low, Leyla Çolpan, Meghan Pipe, C. A. Traywick, transl. by Stephen Snyder, Ames Varos, Sophie Cabot Black, Hera Naguib, Campbell McGrath, Tariq al Haydar & Keija Parssinen, Jonathan McGregor, Gemma de Choisy, Kathryn Nuernberger, Naphisa Senanarong,
Fiction
2020 Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction: Clean Teen
Francisco González
Around the time he entered the eighth grade, Agustín began to watch pornography on a blue iMac he had salvaged from a dumpster. There was a McDonald’s next door to his apartment building, and he would use its Wi-Fi to view free clips. He did… 
Poetry
2020 Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry: Goethe’s Theory…
Leyla Çolpan
You would think someone were, somewhere, burning— / trying to burn— / what could have otherwise been called a rainbow. // And why should feathers make plain with color / their tiny, interior geometries— / volition suggesting, prematurely,…
Non-Fiction
2020 Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction: How to…
Lisa Low
Sometimes, when I apologize to my husband during an argument, I picture cartoon versions of us, our bodies turned into stereotypes. An Asian woman, curtained by her hair, lowers her head into her chest. A white man sits next to her on the…
Fiction
Down South
Kosiso Ugwueze
When my uncle, Onoima, returned from South Africa, he did not talk about what he had seen there. He only slept for hours, waking in the middle of the night to shuffle around the kitchen for something to eat. Other times, he would park himself…
Fiction
Hymne a l'Amour
Naphisa Senanarong
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Fiction
The Beaver's Twigs
Yoko Ogawa, transl. by Stephen Snyder
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Non-Fiction
The Constant
Gemma de Choisy
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Non-Fiction
The Invention of Mothers
Kathryn Nuernberger
Set chopped up his rival Osiris and scattered the pieces across the world. Isis was the first queen and the first witch. The first spell went like this: For a year Isis roamed the earth gathering up the pieces. Then she molded the one bit…
Non-Fiction
Exit Music
Jonathan McGregor
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Non-Fiction
Homeland Insecurity: A Collaborative Essay
Tariq al Haydar & Keija Parssinen
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Poetry
On the Three Forms of Water
Campbell McGrath
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Poetry
All Souls'
Emmalea Russo
“she broke down and let me in” / playing at the café in Venice // at my computer i squint / my coffee is cold and a hooded dude / beside me looking also at my screen / “if you’re going to san francisco” // i’ve never seen my mother cry / without…
Poetry
Imagine writing “The Atlantic” on water
Jared Joseph
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Poetry
A orelha e o ouvido
Ananda Lima
he shows me the difference between years / and ears in vain I say that we have two / words for it in my language (mine and his / too I correct myself ): this one word for / the outside bare skinned curled blind baby mouse / another for the…
Poetry
December 16
Eileen Myles
driving / through Tor / nillo & / I feel / all the / children / we can’t / see / in / his / America. He / is the pro / noun / of the govt / stand in / for hu / man u / have that / a lot // line / of mountains // light // no longer / trembles
Poetry
Desert Sonnet with Dropped Line
Stephanie Horvath
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Poetry
Capitalism Ritual
Rosa Alcalá
The boutique owner / pulled from racks / variations on the same / pricey and shapeless dress / and as I tried them on / she whispered into the fitting room, / “I wanted to burn everything I wore / the next day,” and let me go / into the cheap…
Poetry
Narrow Negotiations (hand-washing)
Rusty Morrison
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Poetry
Song of the Andoumboulou: 248
Nathaniel Mackey
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Non-Fiction / Art
One-way or Round Trip?: Speaking in Pictures…
Alex Jen
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Interviews / Art
Myth and Folktale: An Interview with Diedrick…
Veronica Roberts
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Non-Fiction / Art
Autumn Knight: Performance of/for the Moment
Kate Green
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Reviews
"The Sudden Rush of the World": A Review of…
Chelsea B. DesAutels
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Reviews
Completely Incomplete: A Review of Teresa Milbrodt's…
Matt Bizzell
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