Witness XXIX.1 (Spring 2016) Now Live
The Witness Spring 2016 issue (XXIX.1) is now live.
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Alex Nodopaka / “Seagull guano”
Patterns of seagull guano found in a parking lot resemble the apparent chaos of the cosmos.
Patterns of seagull guano found in a parking lot resemble the apparent chaos of the cosmos.
Poetry
Sara Henning, The First Murmuration, Fathers and Sons, The End of the Unified Field
Cory Hutchinson-Reuss, Soundings
Shane McCrae, Jefferson Davis the Adoptive Father of the Mulatto Jim Limber Dreams the Freedom of the Negro Will One Day Be His Freedom, Black Codes
Candice Reffe, My Life Shrinks to the Size of a Midge
G.C. Waldrep, Epitaphion, Who Would We Love if not for Ghosts
Karolina Zapal, Office Part One & Two
Fiction
Charlene Logan Burnett, Thirst
Abigail DeWitt, The Jew & the German
Amanda Futrell, Bravo
David Heronry, Mr. Masterson, Your Flight Awaits
Dustin M. Hoffman, In This Room I Make Red
Kevin Randall, A Theft
Carmen Schober, The Blue Line
Paul Vega, Larry Fucking Walters
Michael Zadoorian, To Make A Noise
Nonfiction
Aimee Sun Kwon, Overnight
Andrea Patton, Flights
Sadie Shorr-Parks, Attic Bats, Modern Love
Susan Sterling, Dr. Hunt
September Liam Valentine, Gleipnir
Photography
Alexandre Nodopaka, Seagull guano chaos
Witness blends the features of a literary and an issue-oriented magazine to highlight the role of the modern writer as witness to his or her times. Launched in Detroit in 1987, the magazine is best known for showcasing work that defines its historical moment; special issues have focused on political oppression, religion, the natural world, crime, aging, civil rights, love, ethnic America, and exile. The issues “New Nature Writing,” “The Sixties,” “Sports in America,” and “The Best of Witness, 1987 – 2004” eventually appeared as university press anthologies.In 2007, Witness moved to Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The magazine now publishes one special print issue and two general online issues each year and increasingly seeks out work that contextualizes the American experience by highlighting issues of global concern.
