Waxwing Literary Journal: American writers & international voices.

Issue XIII — Fall 2017

Poetry

Vievee Francis
- The Shared World
- A Call to Arms
Sherwin Bitsui
- from Dissolve
Leila Chatti
- Liriope
- Echo
Dan Albergotti
Momina Mela
- Things I Will Probably Never Say to My Imagined Child
- Upon Witnessing an Exploding Whale
Patrick Donnelly
- The moon
- A mistake
Paige Lewis
- We Know Nothing About Your Bodies, But We Want To
- Where I’m from, Every House Is a House with an Obstructed View
Karen Skolfield
- Mother’s Day
Brian Michael Murphy
- Love, a Hungry Gun
Rebecca Hazelton
Colette Arrand
Rachel Mennies
Sheila Squillante
- The Pool
- Petunias
Janice Lobo Sapigao
- A Map of The Philippines
Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Sustenance
- Notes from Rerouted Flight 488

Fiction

Keene Short
- Scouting Locations
Justin Christensen
- 72 Hours
Grant Currier
- Reliquiae
Hugh Sheehy
- The Next Ice Age
Frankie Concepcion
- Mercy

Nonfiction

Paul Crenshaw
- College Entrance Exam Reading Comprehension Questions 37-45
Tiffany Midge
- First-World (Story) Problems: Brown Girl, Multiple-Choice Edition
Steve Fellner
- Self-Portrait as a 1980s Cineplex Movie Theatre (An Abecedarian)

Nonfiction

Brionne Janae
- Black Girl Returning from the Seat of Privilege
Jenny Ruth
- White and Working On It
Annette McGivney
- Three Chapters from Pure Land

Translation

An Anonymous 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Feminist translated from the Anglo Saxon
by M. L. Martin
- Translator’s Note
- Wulf ond Eadwacer /
  Autobiography of Wulf and other translations
Margarita Serafimova translated from the Bulgarian
by the author
Rainer Maria Rilke translated from the French
by James Owens
- Translator’s Note
- Vent Orphelin /
  Orphan Wind
Marina Tsvetaeva translated from the Russian
by Mary Jane White
- Translator’s Note
- 8 /8
- 9 /9
- 10 /10
Yuan Changming translated from the Chinese
by the author
Bijan Elahi translated from the Persian
by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Gould
Abdourahman Waberi translated from the French Djibouti by Nancy Naomi Carlson

Interview

An Interview with Todd Fredson with Dexter Booth

An Interview with Kamilah Aisha Moon with Jenny Johnson

Reviews

A Review of My country, tonight
- by Josué Guébo,
  translated by Todd Fredsonreviewed by Dexter Booth
A Review of Buckskin Cocaine
- by Erika T. Wurthreviewed by Jeannine M. Pitas

Music

Tuba Skinny: What’s Old Is New Again by Nick Fox