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Voices of the Middle East and North Africa
Spring/Summer 2019, Vol. 62. No.2
Eilis O’Neal and Somayeh Shams: Editors’ Note
Fiction: Voices of the Middle East and North Africa
Uzma Aslam Khan: “My Mother is a Lunar Crater”
Peyman Esmaeili: “Waterworld”
Lauren Alwan: “The Levantines”
Nahid Rachlin: “Teheran Beggar”
Poetry: Voices of the Middle East and North Africa
Myronn Hardy: “Performance Day in the Vaulted Theater,” Blue over Bicycles”
Nashwa Gowanlock: “The Story of Ka”
Aiya Sakr: “In Which Huginn Has Fathered Children,” “Broken Ghazal: Seven Hijabis,” “Questions for my Jinn Counterpart”
Sara Elkamel: “Ways of Entering,” “Welcome to the Night, in Which We Are Hidden”
Dujie Tahat: “salat in a dream with Jida’s ghost on the night of Korryn Gaines’ killing,” “salat in the name of the father”
Makram Ayache: “These Old Jackets and Crowns”
Israel Eliraz: “Untitled”
Lori Levy: “Check-Up in Beer Sheva,” “Nursing Home Lies”
Nicholas Samaras: “Alatsata, I Bring You My Mother,” “Immigrant by Repetition”
Threa Almontaser: “When I Was Nine I Lived,” “Mining Cave in Dhamar,” “Yemen Storm,” “Yemen Plated with Divine Origami”
Eli Eliahu: “Ballistics,” “Genesis”
Jameel al-Jameel: “Paleness of Time”
Nineb Lamassu: “28/04/6767”
Bijan Najdi: “Happiness”
Adele Ne Jame: “The SS France and the Ruthless Furnace of This World”
Mariam Gomaa: “Qahwa”
Jessica Abughattas: “She Cannot Bear to Hear His Name”
Nada Faris: “All Knowledge is Permissible,” “Parachutes”
Darius Atefat-Peckham: “An Explosion of Feathers”
Mohja Kahf: “Spaciousness (al-Inshirah)”
Salim Barakat: “Fog Composed Like a Gentleman”
Alaz Ada: “The Tulip Age,” “The Hunger Thief”
Majda Gama: “Tala (Ode to the Girl Palm),” “Passing Twenty-One Palms”
Rachel Neve-Midbar: “Fourth Eden,” “Fajr”
Joshua Sassoon Orol: “Daughter of Egypt,” “Diaspora Prayer”
Hedy Habra: “Though It Still Appears to Be a Dream”
Maya Wahrman: “My Grandfather Said I Spoke Spanish Like Cervantes”
Ibtisam Barakat: “Rhythm”
Nurit Zarchi: “[UNTITLED]”
Fiction: General Submissions/Francine Ringold Awards
Skye Anicca: “Places I’ve Never Been”
Doug Ramspeck: “Summer”
Desiree Evans: “Whirligig”
Poetry: General Submissions/Francine Ringold Awards
Danielle Gosselin: “protector pulse”
Sarah Elrich: “All Maps Are Moving”
Caleb Nolen: “Yellow Jacket,” “Night Drives on the PA-26”
James Crews: “Telling My Mother”
Christopher Costabile: “Old Smoke”
Erin L. McCoy: “Notice of an Ice-Carried Boulder at Borgholm,” “Memoir of the Late John Wolley by Alfred Newton”
Reyna Clancy: “Miss July ‘85”
Cynthia Amoah: “for my grandmother, when words fail”
Lauren Saxon: “Tomorrow,” “Ghost Boys”
Katherine Stingley: “A Daughter Goes to Work”
Roy Mash: “At the Wedding the DJ Puts on an Oldie”
Neva Herrington: “Dining with Marjorie”
Susan Friberg: “Safe Passage,” “Sleeping Birds,” “Ghosts”
Awards 40
Fall/Winter 2018
Vol. 62. No. 1
Fiction
Ellen Rhudy: “Would You Know Me”
Ellen Furman: “Things”
Amy Shearn: “Some Fun”
Mimi Lok: “Last of Her Name”
Poetry
Megan Merchant: “Marrow,” “A thousand words is worth a picture,” “Eurydice,” “Pulp,” “Unfurling”
Susan Nguyen: “Beast Angel,” “If I Say My Body is Grieving”
Namrata Verghese: “Kathakali”
Adela Najarro: “Chantico Swings”
Darrel Alejandro Holnes: “The land is made a stepmother,” “20 de Diciembre, 1989: When the . . .” “For My Mother, The Black . . .”
Mark Smith-Soto: “Let It Spill”
Cornelia Veenendaal: “Rehearsal”
Susan Landgraf: “What’s Left”
Mel Elberger: “Recipe”
Caroline Berblinger: “Interviewing My Grandfather,” “For Taylor,” “April Again”
Elizabeth Rees : “Elegy for Good Health,” “Our Newborns Down the Hall . . .,” “No Other Name for Mother,” “Complicit”
Michael Warr: “What Not To Do . . .”
Emily Harman : “Cairn”
Kate Gaskin: “Shark Week During the Apocalypse”
Jeanne Wagner: “Dogs That Look Like Wolves,” “Scald,” “Why I’m Often Suspected of Shoplifting”
Christie Towers: “Sugar Water in Winter”
Chrissy Kolaya: “The House Sitters”
Brian Czyzyk: “Baba Yaga’s Antidote for Aimlessness,” “Presque Isle,”
Don Colburn: “Ginkgo on 19th,” “Poem in December”
Don Hogle: “Mother”
Katherine Gaffney: “With Ghost”
John Walser: “Heaven,” “Vincent Street April”
Rebecca Foust: “Spring Is”
W.J. Herbert: “The Smell of Almost Rain”
S. B. Merrow: “Craving”
Benjamin Garcia: “Gay Epithalamium”
Matty Layne Glasgow : “Plumage,” “Ash Mama,” “bitter-berry”
J. Bailey Hutchinson: “Became My Body, Too”
Melanie Figg: “Psyche’s History of Houses”
Freesia McKee: “Peeling an Orange”
Caroline Earleywine: “Lipstick,” “What if our love wasn’t”
Ayokunle Falomo” “The World’s Loudest Sound”
Ryan Meyer: “Estuary,” “from Forgetting Guidelines”
Matthew MacFarland: “Singing Saw,” “Hic abundant lupi”
Roger Camp: “Ascension”
Kelly Michels: “What I mean when I say he went . . .”
Luke J. Johnson: “Song of the Stillborn”
Arne Weingart : “The Painting of the Barn without the . . .”
Lee Sharkey: “To Look Out Is to See; to Look In, to . . .”
Anna Scotti: “When I could still be seen,” “Five Children and It,” “Feathers of Gold”