Waxwing Literary Journal: American writers & international voices.

Constellation of Reclining Stars by Sarah-Jane Crowson

Constellation of Reclining Stars by Sarah-Jane Crowson

Issue XXIV — Summer 2021

Poetry

Nome Emeka Patrick
- Prelude to Survival
- Monologue Inside a Room That Isn’t a Room
nicole v basta
- dear eva and anna
Mónica Gomery
Kemi Alabi
- Love Letter from Pompeii
Ricky Ray
- She Couldn’t Stand Cut Flowers, So I Bought Them in the Hopes that She Would Haunt Me
- My Donkey Spirit Steps through My Body to Take Up the Slack
J. Bailey Hutchinson
Carolina Hospital
- Caracoles
Steven Espada Dawson
- Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Heart
Sebastián Hasani Páramo
- My Mother’s Blessing
- Still-Life with Salt on Fruit
G. J. Sanford
- Pyrolatry
- cave-dweller 2076
Liliana Valdez
- Descosida
- Father Figure
Michael Marberry
- Ghosts & Goblins
- Contra
Kasey Jueds
- Kittatinny
Elizabeth Rogers
Richard Cole
- Deepwater Horizon

Non-Fiction

Jesse Lee Kercheval
- Falling
Jill McCabe Johnson
- Slipsilver
- When You First Came Home
Jen Soong
- Origin Story

Fiction

KB Carle
- Define a Good Woman
Dunni Abisayo
- Milk
Alex DiFrancesco
- Tales from Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
Vanessa Chan
- Miss Freckle
Alex Juarez
- Oy-sir
Emily Lu
- it is time to go to my next enemy
Hananah Zaheer
- Willow Tree Fever
Kate Deimling
- Things My Teachers Told Me
Nandita Naik
- Kali

Translation

Alain Mabanckou translated from French by
Nancy Naomi Carlson

Interviews