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A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire
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2018

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Contents
FictionEssaysPoetryArt FeatureConversationsReviewsBlog

Fiction

The True Death of Abel Paisley
by Maisy Card
Mora
by Stephen Dixon
At a Party
by Line Kallmayer

Essays

Pietà: Richmond, Indiana
by Shena McAuliffe
Into a World of Light: Lucie Brock-Broido, 1956–2018
by Askold Melnyczuk

Poetry

Desire
Smoke
The Angel of Memory
Untitled
Bonnie Parker’s Photoshoot
by Marta Balcewicz
Natasha Writes Back
by Marta Balcewicz
A Visit to the Doctor
by Jennifer Frost Banks
West 26th Street
by Jennifer Frost Banks
Chorus of Excisions
by Willa Carroll
Requiem for a Millennium
by Willa Carroll
Repurpose
by Reyna Clancy
Shelter: Michigan
by Lisa Fay Coutley
The Lake
by Chard DeNiord
Field Work
by Michael Lavers
Naming the Heartbeats
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Egg
by Joyce Peseroff
Swaddled in Moths
by Lynne Potts
Writing Poetry Is Like Fielding Ground Balls
by Tara Skurtu
Concussion Protocol
by Bruce Smith
Abeyance
by Bruce Willard

Art Feature

Caricature of Simon Perchik
by Joaquín Aldeguer

Conversations

A Conversation with Rita Dove
by Chapman Hood Frazier

Reviews

On Monuments and Monoliths
by Christian Wessels

Blog

A Brief and Possibly Pointless Disquisition on Truth and Its Place in a Writer’s Life
by Patricia Traxler
A Nursery Rehearsal of Emigration
by Svetlana Lavochkina
Ars Longa: A Complaint
by Richard Hoffman
Beer in the Snooker Club: Egypt Then and Now
by M. Lynx Qualey
Books Barely There
by Kate Northrop
Call and Response: Two Questions with Alicia Elkort and Jenn Givhan
by agnimag
Culling: A New Year’s Reflection
by Sven Birkerts
Delight and Devastation: A Conversation with Ben Purkert
by agnimag
Dick Talk
by Mark Dow
Driving Cars in Clown Suits: David Shields Terrifies Novelists
by Thomas Larson
Every Course to Begin with a Poem
by Daneen Wardrop
Everything Is Writing
by Laura Childs Gill
Fail Better: How to Succeed at Writing without Really Succeeding
by David Ebenbach
Fostered Alike By Beauty and By Fear: Montale, Wordsworth and the Landscapes of Childhood
by Ralph Sneeden
Frost and Gilmore: Poets of Humanity
by Judy Rowley
Hearing Voices: Two Questions with Patrick Dacey
by agnimag
Judaism in the Window
by David Ebenbach
Listening: The Ethics of Translation
by David Ball
Lux City Living
by Donald Morrill
Mine Own Neruda
by William Archila
Night Beat
by Lisa Chen
North
by William Archila
On Becoming Anti-Hero
by David Ebenbach
On Bibliodiversity
by Sydney Lea
On Fear
by Carolyn Guinzio
On Food, Memory, and Writing: Three Questions with Jung Hae Chae
by agnimag
Out in Rain—and Back in Rain : On Lucy Ives’s Anamnesis
by Kate Northrop
Radical Sacrifices: Three Questions on Translation with Eugene Serebryany
by agnimag
Reading the Epics in the Trump Era
by John Poch
Recycling Neruda
by Stephen Kessler
Spiritual Tourism: A Confession
by Yahia Lababidi
Teaching Art to Scientists
by Paul Christensen
The Continuing Story of How I Learned English
by Stefani Nellen
The Damage Done
by Greg Bottoms
The Gospel of Grief & Grace & Gratitude
by Melanie Rae Thon
The Light of Homer
by Joshua Gidding
The Murderous Edge: Three Questions with Gail Mazur
by agnimag
The Progress of Reading
by Sven Birkerts
The Pursuit for Mercy: Two Questions with Donald Quist
by agnimag
The Retreats
by Ralph Sneeden
The Winter Rain of the Poets: A Report from Civita di Bagnoregio and The Bronx
by Judith Baumel
There Is No Return to What Is Lost
by Sean Higgins
To Purify the Language of the Tribe
by Sydney Lea
Trains
by Rick Bursky
Tricycle: On Truth, Memory, and Making Memoir
by Greg Bottoms
Truth
by Rick Bursky
We Are Magic Talking to Itself
by Rachel DeWoskin
We Can Talk About This
by Oleh Lysheha
Translated by James Brasfield and Oksana Tatsyak
What a Poem Is
by David Ebenbach
What Does Your Cat Want from You? A Writer’s Thoughts
by Anis Shivani
What It Really Means to Write from Experience
by Bonnie Friedman
Why I Missed The Reading
by Carolyn Guinzio
Working in Murky Territory: Four Questions with David E. Yee
by agnimag
Writers Are Citizens of the World
by Nancy Kassell
Writing and the Tibetan Book of the Dead
by Ann Tashi Slater
“Checking One Belief Against Another”: A Conversation with H. L. Hix
by Karen Schubert
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