David Maisel / INSTITUTE
Editor’s Comment
Fiction
James Gallant, Segovia in Uruguay
Elvis Bego, Hamza the Comedian
Sarah Strickley, Peek-a-Boo
Bipin Aurora, Satish Kapoor
David Rutschman, The Squirrels
David Driscoll, Orphans On the Moon
Maxim Loskutoff, Bobby’s Brain
Elizabeth Eslami, New Year
Heidi Diehl, Voice Mail
Almasi Hines, Women and Men
Ariana–Sophia Kartsonis, Wishwoman
Poetry
Mike White, American Gothic, Migration
A.E. Clark, Hook
Nate Pritts, Ghost Officer, It Was Just Thinking
Andrew S. Nicholson, Aesop, Friedrich Hölderlin, I’m Listening
Peter Covino, from Armies in the Blood, Ecstatic Song
Peter Burghardt, Say It (#6), East Texas
Graham Foust, Poem
Joseph Chapman, Wilderness
Felicia Zamora, from Imbibe {et alia} here
Kathryn Cowles, Glossary, Stopper
James Meetze, from Phantom Hour
Sandra Meek, Neritina virginea, Acedia
Amaranth Borsuk, The Familiar Spirit
Ariana–Sophia Kartsonis, Wishwoman
Nonfiction
Leslie Jamison, It Does Not Happen By Machine
Sarah Salway, The Algiatrist’s Clocke
Jeff Parker, Stuck in the Lift
Laura Mullen, Ghost Story
Jonathan Fink, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
Excerpts
Albena Stambolova, Ghosts (from Everything Happens As It Does)
Timothy O’Grady, Prologue (from Monoghan)
Photography
David Maisel (INSTITUTE), from Library of Dust
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 publishes one print issue and one online issue a year, and increasingly seeks out work that contextualizes the American experience by highlighting issues of global concern.
