Category: Published Issues

The Great Green Wave
by David J. Rothman The snake still walks on his belly, The almond tree grows out of the ground Like black iron and men and women still love And

Babel, Interuptus
by Kathleen Ellis At the Tower they are babbling again. A girl blurts out Beasts! for we are like them. We are not men or women of our word and

Shared Premise
by Jami Macarty A spoon stirs inside a woman’s stomach. A woman is confused. A woman wants to be loved. A woman wants to fix what’s wrong. A man

Lunar
by Jami Macarty Baja California Sur, Mexico 1. Limpets dangling from the backdrop — Here’s the

The Fall
by David McCann All of it? Yes, all of it. I want all of it off. So he did it. This is what she paid him for, how he made a living. Her

72 nd St.
by John Harris A summer sublet. 72nd St., Three stories up. An ancient railroad flat, Filled with listing bookcases, stifling heat, Uneven

Joséphine Sacabo

Josefina Auslender

Asa Zatz
during a visit to Mexico that lasted thirty–three years, he learned the translator’s craft and dealt with material in practically any

David Unger
is a Guatemalan–born writer and translator. He is the author of the novel Life in the Damn Tropics (Wisconsin University Press, 2004).