Waxwing Literary Journal: American writers & international voices.

Untitled, by Johnny Salas

Untitled by Johnny Salas

Issue X — Fall 2016

Poetry

Aimee Nezhukumatathil
A. Anupama
- Kiss of intention
Lindsey D. Alexander
- Honest Abe Gets Mad Jealous of the Pretty, Successful Girl from My High School
Jess Smith
Albert Abonado
- Pancho Villa Last One Standing Is Also the First
- How to Remove a Spike
Lisa Summe
- Selfie at the Symphony
- Elegy
claire schwartz
- someday i’ll love claire schwartz
Kristin Chang
Diane Seuss
Lillian Kwok
Michelle Peñaloza
- Now that You’ve Moved to Town
James Hoch
Peter LaBerge
- Turbulence
- Tempe
Jennifer S. Cheng
Danez Smith

Fiction

N. D. Rambeau
- The Dust Cloud
Nat Akin
- At Home with the Spirit
Courtney Craggett
- Astromorphosis

Nonfiction

Colin Rafferty
- Four Presidential Essays
Jen Soriano
- A Brief History of Her Pain
Mark L. Keats
- The Diving Women
Michael Copperman
- Letter to my Brother the Day He Shaved His Head

Translation

Curtis Bauer
- Beginnings and Endings
Raquel Salas-Rivera translated from the Spanish
by Raquel Salas-Rivera
- Translator’s Note
- “no flota por los aires” /
  “it does not float in the air”
Patanjali translated from the Sanskrit
Kanya Kanchana
- Translator’s Note
- समाधि पाद /
  Samadhi Pada: The Chapter of Being It
Mira Rosenthal
- Getting Drunk in the Toolshed, or What I Do When I Translate
Tomasz Różycki translated from the Polish
by Mira Rosenthal
Mario Mélendez translated from the Spanish
by Eloisa Amezcua
Jean Follain translated from the French
by Mary Feeney

Interview

A Conversation Between Collier Nogues and Sarah Blake

Reviews

All Things Lose Thousands of Times
Notes On Reading a Very Long Novel

Music

Hurray for the Riff Raff