Alexis Rhone Fancher / “Perfect Form”
An acrobat trains on the Windward Pavilion in Venice Beach, California (5/1/11).
An acrobat trains on the Windward Pavilion in Venice Beach, California (5/1/11).
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Fiction
Elizabeth Anderson, Daredevil
Sam Katz, Island 821
Mimi Lipson, Moscow, 1968
Michael Pearce, Hostage
Joel Smith, After St. Ex / Hatemann is Not a Friend
Poetry
Alicia Mountain, (I began to see) / (The most elegant way to win)
Celia Bland, For My Daughter in Fear That She Will Become My Son
Blas Falconer, Foreigner / Use Your Words
Ted Meyer, His Father the Lawyer His Mother the Nun
Dylan Pasture, Grim Hallway
Lucas Rivera, The Hall / The Sky is Overcast
Eleanor Stanford, Tropicália
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.
