Neil de la Flor / “Wraith”
Veronica Ortiz (pianist) and Jahzel Dotel perform prior to the opening of Cask, a theatrical dance production created by Marissa Alma Nick based on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” on October 25, 2013, at the Miami Dade County Auditorium On.Stage Black Box.

Fiction

Michael Hyde, The Blond Vaughn
Deborah Clearman, The Bicyclist
Mary Kuryla, Animal Control
Mi Ditmar, After War
Nicholas Maistros, Room Nine

Poetry

Charles Bernstein, Errata / Riddle
Rebecca Lindenberg, September, “Aphorism” (Sometimes the best), “Aphorism” (There may be)
Michael Rutherglen, Summer in Symmetry, Ping, Whalefall
Jaswinder Bolina, Self–portrait as a Gene Sequence, Letter to a Drone Pilot, Texting the Beloved
Joyelle McSweeney, Chase Bank: Pentacles for Spring

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.