In this issue, Jim Minick reveals fire’s deepest secrets in two poems beginning with “Good Dirt.”
Anna Nguyen explores the lasting effects on her family of the struggle to communicate in “For Children Who Translate.”
And Liam O’Brien proves that you can go home again, and in so doing you might leave with a few surprises and, greater still, you might help the younger generation better understand the family and themselves in “I’ll Bid My Heart Be Still.”
This issue features altered images from 42nd Street, directed by Lloyd Bacon in 1933.