Publisher's Synopsis
Issue 36 Includes:
Poetry Translation Folios with work by Chinese poet Zhang Zhihao, translated by Yuemin He; French surrealist Joyce Mansour, translated C. Francis Fisher; and Vietnamese poet Tue Sỹ,translated by Martha Collins and Nguyen Ba Chung.
A feature on working class, Jewish, LA-based poet Bert Meyers.
New Poetry by MacArthur "Genius" grant winner Campbell McGrath; Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynn Thompson; Guggenheim Fellow Michael Waters; Georgia Poet Laureate and NEA Fellow Chelsea Rathburn; Readers' Choice Award recipient Sandra Simonds; Yellen Fellow Vandana Khanna; Cave Canem and Margaret Bridgman fellow Gary Jackson; NEA Fellow Oliver de la Paz; as well as emerging poets Rita Mookerjee, Bunkong Tuon, Zack Strait, Seif-Eldeine, Joshua Aiken, and many others.
New Fiction by Flannery O'Connor Award winner Siamak Vossoughi, Pushcart Prize "special mentions" S. Shankar and Mike Alberti, Connecticut Office of the Arts Fellow David Ryan, Cos Barnes Fellow Julia Ridley Smith, and emerging writers Joshua Pearson and Josie Tolin.
New Essays by Guggenheim Fellow Mark Halliday and emerging essayist Ari Ketzal.
Cover Art by a New York-based British-Liberian visual artist, Lina Iris Viktor.
