In this issue, a young woman negotiates her boyfriend’s roommate’s destructive behavior, all the while befriending the roommate’s goat, Gloria, in Sara Streeter’s”The House Always Wins.”
Joanne Proulx confronts a memory that should stay in the past in “The Zoo.”
And Rannvá Holm Mortensen both laments and celebrates that “everything is salt” in four sections from her book length poem Sólsmakkur (Suntaste), translated from the Faroese by Matthew Landrum. Sólsmakkur (Suntaste) is an ekphrastic work that is considered revolutionarily feminist in the Faroe Islands.
This issue features illustrations of varieties of pigeons by Anton Schoner from Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Taubenrassen (1906).