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As we customarily do in the Spring issue, we celebrate Asian American Heritage Month. The writers of Asian American ancestry and heritage in this issue are Mộng-Lan, Yan Lin, and Kyoko Uchida, all poets. Anne M. Drolet, our Reviews Editor, reviews a memoir by Hmong writer Kao Kalia Yang in her omnibus review article Paeans. And Vince Gotera reviews poetry books by Asian American poets Ed Bok Lee and Paisley Rekdal.
We typically celebrate different heritage months and literary celebration months of the US in various issues. In our Winter issue (which covers January, February and March), we honor Black History Month (February) and Women’s History Month (March). In our Spring issue (April, May, and June), we celebrate National Poetry Month (April in the US and also in several other countries) and Asian American Heritage Month, celebrated in May in the US. In our third issue of each year, the Summer issue (July, August, and September) we honor Hispanic Heritage Month (celebrated from 15 September to 15 October). And in our final number of the volume year, the Fall issue, we honor Native American Heritage Month. These celebrations mean we publish works and review books by people of those different groups. The issues are never wholly devoted to these groups, however, since we strive to publish as many writers as we can, of whatever flavor.
In the Spring issue, we also publish the first, second, and third place winners, alongside the honorable mentions and finalists of our James Hearst Poetry Prize. This year we are glad to publish also a poem by this year’s Hearst judge, H. L. Hix. His poem is in a poetic form called a glose.
ART
Cover Scat Dizzy [pastel on paper] • Gary Kelley
15 One Day, One Week, An Hour [digital] • Jess Fink
21 Lost Boys [pen and ink] • Jared Rogness
25 Whole New World [ink] • Wesley Allsbrook
FICTION
15 One Day, One Week, An Hour • Eric Barnes
21 The Tucker Boys • Deborah Kennedy
25 Whole New World • Jonathan Wei
NONFICTION
32 Greetings from Duluth • B. J. Hollars
38 Eloise • Jacob Newberry
39 The God Creators • Steven Moore
48 Whats New at the Folger Library [Past Perfect] • Rick Vanderwall
POETRY
3 Bad May • Andrew Payton
4 Iowa Farm Sale • Joanna Thompson Yezek
4 A Phone Line to Seven Generations • Mark Wagenaar
5 Passage • Benjamin Busch
5 A Man’s Job • A. É. Coleman
6 Not a Self-Portrait • Tess Barry
7 Puberty • Roy Bentley
8 Middle Child Syndrome • Morgan Eklund
8 Forgotten Image • Rebecca Foust
8 Amor Fati • Amy Greacen
9 Funk, Sex, & Chocolate Milk • Tracy Fuad
9 Ahnentafel • Michael Derrick Hudson
10 Vacation in Gray • Susan Kelly-DeWitt
10 Ray Chapman, Killed by Pitch August 16, 1920 • Philip Martin
10 Burnt Umber • Matthew J. Spireng
11 Jane Austen’s Letters to Sister Cassandra, Abridged • Erin Murphy
11 Consensus • Michael Spence
12 A Letter to the Coroner in the Voice of Marian Parker • Jennifer Millitello
12 From Mother Tongues and Other Untravelings, a prose poem sequence • Kyoko Uchida
13 Electric Eel, Coney Island • Holly Woodward
14 Theatrical Places • H. L. Hix
14 The Shell Girl • Tom Holmes
14 Medical Supplies and Corsets • Deja Earley
20 The Hundredth Day • Yan Lin
24 The Retired Magician • Emily Hockaday
24 Shark Message • Rachel Adams
24 I Swam Where Johnny Was Tarzan • Heather Sellers
31 Assassin’s Alphabet • Carolyne Wright
37 Baptism • Rachel Morgan
37 Orbit • Christine Gelineau
REVIEWS
43 Paeans: Brief Book Reviews • Anne M. Drolet
44 Synecdoche: Brief Book Reviews • Vince Gotera
45 Crosscuts: Brief DVD Reviews • Grant Tracey
MISCELLANY
2 From the Editors • NAR Staffers Out in the World
46 Contributors