Waxwing Literary Journal: American writers & international voices.

Doll Fence, by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Doll Fence, by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Issue XVIII — Summer ’19

Poetry

Rodney Gómez
Jessica Abughattas
Bob Hicok
Yamini Pathak
- Ahimsa
Sean Singer
James O’Bannon
- and now the doctor asks if depression is a family
Dorothy Chan
Kelly Boyker
Michael Mark
- It’s not a Syrian child washed up on the beach its
Jennifer Militello
William Evans
Lauren Yarnall
- I Like My Men
- Mouth Full of White Flags,
Teo Mungaray
- On My Birthday I Witness a Car Accident and Can’t Help but Call It a Metaphor
Matt Hart
Annette Wong
- Miscarry
- Yellow

Fiction

Emilie Pascale Beck
- What She Is Not
William Lychack
- Barkley

Fiction, Continued

Laurie Stone
- Day
Blake Planty
- Moth Boy
Taryn Tilton
- Dogs on the Beach
Jennifer Wortman
- Revive Me. Kill Me More.
Stephen Hundley
- Snowbirds

Nonfiction

Steffan Triplett
- Seasonal
Krys Malcolm Belc
- First Snow
Brock Kingsley
- The Loneliness of Specific Objects
Jenniey Tallman
- sometimes, hoarders

Translation

Jakuzen translated from Chinese and Japanese by
Patrick Donnelly and Stephen D. Miller
- Translators’ Note
- Wakare no uta from Hōmon Hyakushu /
  Poems of Separation from One Hundred Poems of the Dharma Gate
S.N. Haleʻole translated from Hawaiian by
No‘u Revilla
- Translator’s Note
- He mele no Kekalukaluokēwā /
  A chant for Kekalukaluokēwā
Sohrab Sepehri translated from Persian
by Armen Davoudian
Carl-Christian Elze translated from German
by Caroline Wilcox Reul

Interviews

An Interview with Lisa Russ Spaar with Jasmine V. Bailey

An Interview with My Collaborator (and Me) Melissa Goodrich and Dana Diehl

Reviews

Music

Chicago City Legends: Chris Foreman, the Green Mill, and the Hammond B3 by Nick Fox