ISSUE 25: Spring / Summer 2020: “The Borders Issue”

 

COVER
Anja Riebensahm

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Rachel Lyon

PUBLISHER
Willard Cook

ASSISTANT POETRY EDITOR
Simona Blat

ASSISTANT FICTION EDITOR
Jose Diego Medina

ART EDITOR
Ryan Spencer

EDITOR-AT-LARGE
J.T. Price

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Alisson Wood

INTERNS
Andrea Oh, Renée Seler

POETRY

Francisco Mallmann, translated by Robert Smith
Dramaturgy of the World
Portuguese Lesson


Kimiko Hahn

The Dream Act

The Toddler’s Lexicon

Jacob Shores-Argüello
Diptych: Crossing Over

Gökçenur Ç., translated by Robyn Marsack
You’re Far Away From Your Country Where I Am

Alicia Ostriker
The Midwife Dream

Susan Terris
Dream of the Honeybee Swarm

Esther Lin

Disappearing Act

Becka Mara McKay
Leviticus as Campaign Rally in Midsummer

Roy G. Guzmán
Sonnet With Seized Cell Phones & Chargers by U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Judith Vollmer
An Elixir of Mica

sara joy márquez
Mud Blood

Marcy Rae Henry
She Needs to Know My Skin Isn’t Whitening but My Hair Is

Lynn Shoemaker
Twist Wire and Barb

Karen Leona Anderson
Rat

Varlam Shalamov, translated by Tyler Green
The Black Butterfly

Omar Sakr
Workshop: Borders

 

SELECTIONS FROM THE ISSUE AVAILABLE AT EPIPHANY ONLINE:

 

PROSE

Steve Chang
Out on the Lake

Mehdi M. Kashani
After the Election

Serkan Görkemli
Kastro

Mary South
The Age of Love

Unica Zürn, translated by Matthew Ward
My Mortal Enemy

Vishwas R. Gaitonde
At Home and Away

Vida James
Domestic Animals

Sarah Anderson
Left

Lena Valencia
Dogs

Kou Machida, translated by Daniel Joseph

Crane’s Urn

Xoşman Qado, translated by Zêdan Xelef and David Shook
Streets

Amanda Hiland
Field Trip Day at the Refugee Housing Complex

Rachel L’Abri Tipton
Notes on a Pirate Utopia

Kaitlin Murphy-Knudsen
The Clear Air of Elsewhere

Ghassan Zeineddine
The Hole in the Kitchen Floor


ART

Ken Light
Midnight La Frontera