Issue 38
Our tenth anniversary issues features new work from Ashleigh Adams, Mitchell Gauvin, S.A. Greene, Neil James, Rebecca Klassen, Kathryn Kulpa, Elana Lavine, Andrew Graham Martin, Gregory Meece, Sumitra Singam, and Vijayalakshmi Sridhar.
Kathryn Kulpa
On Mentors, Writing in Anxious Times, Numbers, and Writing to Themes
Issue 38 contributors weigh in on mentorship, writing in anxious times, and what to make of themes.
A Few Words about the Weather by Kathryn Kulpa
1. Cloud Cover
“You’re pretty cumulus,” said my boyfriend, the meteorologist, and I asked if he meant I was heavenly.
Pisces: The Artist Poses His Muse Before a Goldfish Bowl by Kathryn Kulpa
He never tells me to smile. He says he likes me best for my perfect blankness. Once he painted my eyes. Only my eyes. Floating like olives in a glass jar.
Jessie’s Life in Three Surnames: A Triptych by Kathryn Kulpa
Jessie wakes to the smell of manure being spread. Every day. Or maybe only growing season, but it feels like every day. When her father and brothers come in from the fields and Ma has one of her sick headaches, it’s Jessie who washes their clothes, pounding dirt and dung out of stiff, worn denim, watching her hands grow cracked and red, and thinking about death.
Midnight Spoon by Kathryn Kulpa
Midnight, and Frank is burying spoons again. He doesn’t know I dig them up, hours later, after I’ve put him in bed with his pills and sippy cup, after I’ve checked under the bed for CIA agents, opened the closet door to show him no Russians are hiding there.
