SUMMER 2020
Art demands the cultivation of courage, for the writing life is a solitary one.
This is not to say the writer is reclusive or dislikes big parties. But the work is a path one must, eventually, go alone. The artist who would take the material of their life and learning, who would stare it down and say something true no matter how difficult, is the artist who has cinched the belt another notch and laced the boots a little tighter in order to clear a path the reader can follow.
The years of company spent with great minds, both the living and the dead, the summer evenings spent in leisure reading for pleasure, the weeks one spends enduring life at breakneck speed with only a moment to jot ideas down on napkins…all this for a few, brave hours alone so a poem, essay, or story might be.
-Alexandra Barylski, Editor
POETRY
Octavian Paler
trans. Carla Baricz
Sarah Crowley Chestnut
Brad Davis
Denise K. James
Lily Jurskis
Prose
Jackie Belkin
What If Violence Is The Answer?
Naomi Kim
Samuel Liu
Samuel Liu