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.

Read the Letter from the Executive Editor

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