Issue 2 / Summer 2015

Fiction

A RAMADAN TALE

“Near the end of the first day of my third Ramadan, Omar went to the store as the sun set and returned at the brink of the moon, bearing everything I requested except the dried fruit.”

Rion Amilcar Scott

STIR ME GENTLY, BUT ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM

“We went to Santa Fe in Paul and Cheryl’s rust-colored pick-up truck, a ’48 Chevy that had ugly splotches on the exterior, holes in the floorboards and no heat, so as soon as we got into higher elevations, it was cold in the vehicle.”

Roberto Loiederman

Culture Rant

AMANDA PELL AND THE POST-POST APOCALYPSE

Translator’s Cut

A CONVERSATION

Interview with Roanne L. Kantor (Argentina)

Book Reviews

5 Months, 10 Years, 2 Hours

by Lisa Reisman

Reviewed by Melanie J. Cordova

The Poet in Time

History, Identity, and Politics in Three New Poetry Collections

Reviewed by Rose Solari

Night at the Fiestas

by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Reviewed by Melanie J. Cordova