“In order to survive, hiding is often key. Human beings are not animals. Because they do not know how to protect themselves.”
Poetry
Dario Bellezza, from Nothingness, Glamour, Farewell, from Notes for a Novel in Verse. Translated from the Italian by Peter Covino
Arthur Rimbaud, Seven-Year-Old Poets. Translated from the French by Donald Revell
Derek Henderson, Walnut Tree, What is Considered, Towards Speech
Geoffrey Babbitt, The Writer Over the Page is Driven Down But Like a Robin by a Worm, None: Homoeoteleutonic, Scribal Error Transcription of Revelations 7
Robin Kozak, Jacaranda
Brandon Krieg, In the Shadow of the Reactor, Tone Poem, Infinitive, Indifferent Well
Jehanne Dubrow, [Then the God of War]
Maia Circe, The Unfinished Spell, The Smallest Predictions, TV. Translated from the Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Fiction
Hossein M. Abkenar, Classmates. Translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili
Jennifer Sears, The Interrorgator Recites a Love Song
Stephan Eirik Clark, Breathing Lessons
Christos Chartomatsidis, Alicia the Fat Witch. Translated from the Bulgarian by Velina Minkoff, Rayna Rossenova, and Borislava Velkova
Peter Orner, Cedar City, Utah, 1974
Kelly Puig Carroll, The Transmutation of Fernando Pessoa’s Remains, Letter to Arthur
Richard Wiley, Reading Faust in Shimoda
Ghassan Zeineddine, A Martyr Artist
Emily Geminder, Your Village Has Been Bombed
Eric McMillan, What Is This You Do
Laura Weinert-Kendt, El Director
Pedro Ponce, Hallucinogenic Toreador
Moniru Ravanipour, Golnâr
Marianne Villanueva, Expatriate Writer (Portland, Oregon)
Terrance Manning Jr., Before All the Laughing Left
Lee Foust, Finn Blood
Nonfiction
Lucy Morris, Abe & I
Nicole Walker, Tongue
Douglas Unger, Strange Voices, Subversions, Killer Tomatoes: Literature in Translation
Robert Brunk, The Meaning of Ablaqueate
Elizabeth Rush, The Saree Express
Michael Martone, Live Blogging My Father’s Death
Excerpt
Karl Ove Knausgaard, from My Struggle: Book Four. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett