Hunger for Tiny Things
Volume 23 (2020-2021)
ISSN: 1520-4581
ISBN: 978-1-934458-10-5
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Cover photograph by Jeremy Brenner
Solar Flare, 2019
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Hunger for Tiny Things
Volume 23 (2020-2021)
Editors
Meghan Maloney-Vinz (Executive Managing), Katrina Vandenberg (Poetry/Creative Nonfiction), Keith Lesmeister (Contributing, Fiction)
Associate Editors
Patricia Weaver Francisco, Mark Teats
Assistant Editors
Elizabeth Caswell, Amanda Happy, Lucas McMillan
Assistant Managing Editor
Robyn Earhart
With gratitude to the students of the Editorial Board.
CONTENTS:
FICTION
Floating RUTH MUKWANA
FastDog Security ALLISON WYSS
Bear No Relation DAN MALAKOFF
Safe LIBBY FLORES
Toast LIBBY FLORES
One Million Years BC FORTUNATO SALAZAR
Renunciation DENTON LOVING
POETRY
My grandparents’ house was razed — left in piles of stone, board, and debris CHRISTINE ROBBINS
Talk to Me about Power JUDY HALEBSKY
Theories and Postulates SAM STOKLEY
Passenger Pigeon, Audubon Plate LXII NOAH DAVIS
Papi, I Can See Your Bones MARIELA LEMUS
The Roses ANNE PIPER
From Out of the Darkness JONATHAN GREENHAUSE
On Behalf of Minneapolis MORGAN GRAYCE WILLOW
The Old Loneliness MORGAN GRAYCE WILLOW
45 DAVID MELVILLE
Estate Sale MEG EDEN
The Book PETER VERTACNIK
I Came Here JASON TANDON
The Geranium KEVIN McLELLAN
Icarus Tells His Son JOHN WALSER
Before the First Incision ALICE HATCHER
The Late Accommodations MARJORIE STELMACH
Elegy Traveling at 73 MPH F. DANIEL RZICZNEK
Rust Belts HALEE KIRKWOOD
Haibun for Early Autumn, Haibun for Buses & Sobriety HALEE KIRKWOOD
Primate AMY BAGAN
We Came to Dinner JOHN BARGER
I thought, I know absence SUZANNE SWANSON
In Which Noah Says Goodbye to His Animals MEGHAN McCLURE
Falling Holding Fast RENEE SOTO
Still Life, with Pomegranates WILLIAM REICHARD
EGGSHELLS MICHAEL KLEBER-DIGGS
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Sweet Just Yesterday JOANNA MANNING
Listening to the Music of a Vulture’s Egg CHRIS ARTHUR
Absolute Dark STEVEN HARVEY
air in the brain JJ PEÑA
Butterflies (Excerpt from Mountain of God) KAZIM ALI
Aqua Vitae PHILLIP HURST
Dunkirk KEITH LESMEISTER
Rublev’s Trinity CAROLYN SCHULTZ-RATHBUN
Taking Each Other In JACKIE TRYTTEN
The Jellyfish Tide KRISCHAN STOTZ
INTERVIEW
with Kazim Ali JESSICA LIND PETERSON & RUPA THADHANI
BOOK REVIEWS
Inside/Out STAN SANVIEL RUBIN
Nonfiction for the Common Good BARRIE JEAN BORICH