LIT 38, Fall 2024
Poetry
Making a Name by Caleb Braun
Mid-Wife Night Mutation by Larissa Larson
Ode to Edith Massey by Michael Montlack
The Mountains Comes Down the Mountains by Patrick Whitfill
The Beach is a Terminal You Reach When You Die, and Out of Time/Admiration by Daniel Felsenthal
Poetry Rubric for Acceptance by Laine Derr
All My Polemics: An Outline by Jenna Cardinale
Insection by Carrie Penrod
Fiction
Self-Guided Study by Meredith Gordon
Boxed by Margaret Ries
The Allegorical Doctor by Genevieve Abravanel
The Guy Who Has 15 Things by MJ McGinn
Nonfiction
Demons are Real by Steven Karl
Motel for Sale by Katie McDonough
Aim High by Brian Ellis
In the Old Capital by Yuko Iida Frost
My Father’s Iris by Marilyn Martin
Hybrid
Two From the Land of Missing Children by Carole Symer
Three Essays on Ants While I Hover Overhead, Poisoning Them by Dennis James Sweeney
I Blew Out the Birthday Candles by Madison Ellingsworth
Translation
Out of Sorts by Muzzafer Kale, Translated from the Turkish by Ralph Hubbell
Sabbath by Alfonsina Storni, Translated from the Spanish by Ulyses Razo
Two Poems by Chloé Savoie-Bernard from “Royaume Scotch Tape”, Translated from the French by April Yee
Interviews and Reviews
Luis Jaramillo speaks with Jonathan Kesh about “The Witches of El Paso”
Honor Moore speaks with Vicky Oliver and Sarah Persons about “A Termination”
Georgia San Li’s poetry collection, “Wandering”, is reviewed by Rebecca Endres and Richard Berwind
Artists Featured in this Issue
Mark Hurtubise:
(on the cover) Beelzebub’s Sycophants, 2022
Last Judgement, 2023
Monica Banks:
Rose Cake, 2023
Matt Bollinger:
Turntable, 2018
An Opening, 2012
Andy Mister:
Virginia Beach (Before Sandy), 2020
Bedside Table II, 2024
Because Tonight Is Just Like Any Other Night, 2018
Joshua Tree, 2020
Ana Prundaru:
Higher Plane, 2024
wishuwerehere, 2024
Adelaide Snow:
Heron, 2024
Bill Wolak:
The Moon’s Secret Perfume, 2023
Reflections From the River’s Fleeting Eyes, 2023
Learn more about the artists here
Works From the Public Domain
From the MET Museum: Carl Gustav Carus- Schloss Milkel in Moonlight
For Mid-Wife Night Mutation
From The National Gallery of Art: Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel The Vision and Inspiration (Joan of Arc series: I), c. 1907-early 1909
For Poetry Rubric for Acceptance
From The Public Domain Review: Diagrams from Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)
For Self-Guided Study
From The Public Domain Review: American Freedom, Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road
For The Guy Who Has 15 Things
From The Public Domain Review: Adeline Harris Sears’ Autographs Quilt (1856–ca.1863)
For Boxed
From The Public Domain Review: Earthen Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)
For The Allegorical Doctor
From The Public Domain Review: Imaging Inscape: The Human Soul (1913)
For Two Poems by Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Translated from French by April Yee
