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Bodies Worth Defending
Volume 21 (2018-2019)
Editors
Mary François Rockcastle (Executive), Meghan Maloney-Vinz (Managing), Katrina Vandenberg (Poetry),
Sheila O’Connor (Fiction), Patricia Weaver Francisco (Creative Nonfiction) .
Assistant Editors
Lacey Buchda, Sam Stokley, Lily Crooks
Assistant Managing Editors
Sophia Myerly
With gratitude to the students of the Editorial Board.
CONTENTS:
FICTION
For Ángel, The Ocean ANALÍA VILLAGRA
Double Jack Slip Jig LORI ANDERSON MOSEMAN
The Man from Lowville ZACHARY F. GERBERICK
The Harlow Postcards STEPHANIE DICKINSON
Heirloom ABDULLAHI JANNO
Winning PAUL HOFFMAN
The Briggait ELAINE FORD
POETRY
To Shade a Green We Say a Noun MOLLY TENENBAUM
O Pie of Grace MOLLY TENENBAUM
Lisa Simpson, the yellow sister LAUREN MICHELE JACKSON
The Song from Moulin Rouge GREG RAPPLEYE
The Price of Rice SU HWANG
Sunrise Village OWEN McLEOD
Likelihoods, Sequels & Spinoffs LEE COLIN THOMAS
Coulee Kids TEGAN DALY
That Far North KASEY JUEDS
Drought KASEY JUEDS
Dream Rematerialized in Bangladesh ALISON MORSE
Portrait of a Woman Reading On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life KATHRYN UGORETZ
A Pantoum Waterlogged at Stevenson’s Dam Est. 1919 EMILY OLIVER
Closing Time MICHAEL PEARCE
The Very Short Story of Your Knuckles MICHAEL TORRES
After the Man Who Found Me Doing Burpees at the Park Said:
“I Can Tell You Learned Those on the Inside.” MICHAEL TORRES
Every morning JEAN MIRIAM LARSON
Panels from a Celestial Autumn KELLY CRESSIO-MOELLER
In Code MARYANN CORBETT
Landmannalaugar MELISSA HITE
Necropsy JORDAN ESCOBAR
Small Treasons JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS
Hummingbirds of the World MARTHA SILANO
My Boss Tells Me She Prays for Me. EMMA BOLDEN
When I Say There Is Desire EMMA BOLDEN
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Punk House KARLEIGH FRISBIE
Two-Piece KARLEIGH FRISBIE
The Basin Set KARLEIGH FRISBIE
Preserves KASEY PAYETTE
Memory Palace RACHEL MORITZ
from Etchings ANDREW KROSCH
Excerpt from The Risk of Language CHRIS ABANI
Weekly Specials MAYA BECK
The Future Perfect MICHAEL GRACEY
MERIDEL LE SUEUR ESSAY
A Portrait in Five Portraits ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING
INTERVIEW
With Aimee Nezhukumatathil KATRINA VANDENBERG & HALEE KIRKWOOD
BOOK REVIEWS
Ghostly Places STAN SANVEL RUBIN