Post Road Magazine
Issue #30 | Spring/Summer 2016

FICTION:

The Fields — Katrina Carrasco
The Small Perfectly Lidded Copper-Bottomed Cooking Pot — Ruth Danon
Limbs — Jennifer Murvin
To Kneel Somewhere in Iowa — Ryan Parker
The Tapping in 1L — Alicia Schaeffer
The Goldfish — Julia Strayer
Delivery — Olivia Worden

NONFICTION:

Rear View — Rhiannon Catherwood
In the Bed — Elisabeth Dahl
So Big Like That — Glenn Deutsch
Clutter — Caitlin Garvey
The Spring Line — Linda I. Meyers
Muscle Memory — Ellen O’Connell

POETRY:

Riding in the Back + Pin Oak — Beth Gylys
Deafheaven Fried Chicken + Poem for Robert Bly — Matt Hart
God’s Child + Sunday Solstice — Jeffrey Schneider

ART:

Menagerie: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Antique Paradigm — Lindsey Drager
Here (or Having Found Godot) — Kyle York

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov — Gabriel Blackwell
Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys — Adrienne Celt
The Tale of Despereaux — Matthew Dicks
The True Thought Seems to Have No Author: On Clarice Lispector — Natalie Eilbert
On Immunity by Eula Biss — Julia Fierro
Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels — Brian Morton
César Aira’s An Episode in the Life of A Landscape Painter — Alena Graedon
Mario Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim — Marianne Leone
Vilém Flusser’s Vampyroteuthis infernalis — Dolan Morgan
Fourth of July Creek — Ivy Pochoda
Eugenia Leigh’s Blood, Sparrows, and Sparrows — Patrick Rosal
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman — Douglas Trevor

GUEST FOLIO: Lad Tobin

The Cheating Gene — Elizabeth Flock
Hunger — Debra Gwartney
A Vine Of Roses — Mimi Schwartz
The Himalayas Are Not Flat — Jennifer Sinor

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Kelsey Stevens, “Norwegian Hitchhiker”— photograph

Post Road Magazine
Issue #29 | Fall/Winter 2015

FICTION:

Seeking Advice and/or Assistance re: Mountain Lions — Matt Tompkins
In Her Place — Maria D’Alessandro
Two Tons Of Manure — Libby Flores
Chameleon — Phil Hearn
Greyhounds — Devin Kelly
A Boyfriend, Obamacare, a Cat — David James Poissant
Accompaniment — Gary Sheppard
Lynx — Alice G. Stinetorf
Student Paper — Justin Taylor
How to Sleep with Lions — Wil Weitzel

NONFICTION:

Notes From a Suicide — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

CRITICISM:

Thinking about Zadie Smith — Ryan McIlvain

POETRY:

Caretakers Blues + Devil’s Bridge — Michelle Holley
Cento + Saudade — Jim Whiteside

ART:

Figure 8 + 8 Various Artists

THEATRE:

Pathfinders: A Play by Ben Merriman

RECOMMENDATIONS:

John Banville’s Eclipse — Howard Axelrod
Dignifying the Slog — Carlene Bauer
Everyone’s Invited: Homicide Survivors Picnic by Lorraine M. López — J.C. Crucet
The Great Shame of Knausgaard’s My Struggle — Katherine Hill
Listen Up: Aurally Spinning through Zadie Smith’s On Beauty — Tim Horvath
Suicide by Edouard Levé — Jac Jemc

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Paul Mariani):

Forsaken and Foregone — Scott Cairns
Evolution — Robert Cording
Aquarium — Sarah Cortez
Here Begins the Prologue to the Life of Blessed Anthony — David Craig
The Diving Platform — Kate Daniels
Eighth Floor — Nadine Ellsworth-Moran
There But Not There — Martín Espada
Apples — William Heyen
The Conversion of the Vikings — Mark Jarman
Humani Generis — Philip Kolin
Sonnet — Marianna Krejci-Papa
Small Losses — Kathleen Markowitz
Location, Location, Location — Richard Michelson
Reading Crusoe on the Metro North — Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Clayfeld’s Vampire Fantasy — Robert Pack

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Eugenia Loli, “High Priestess”— collage

Post Road Magazine
Issue #28 | Spring/Summer 2015

FICTION:

Uprooted — C.C. Robin
Murmurings — Jane Buchbinder
Grandpap’s Burials — Casey Quinn
Pity — Lisa Gornick
Allapattah — Michael Hawley
Mine Dont Never — J S Khan
Chiara — Jonathan Wilson

NONFICTION:

Ma Picks a Priest — Marianne Leone
The Backyard — Nicholas Ward
Goodnight Moon — V. Hansmann
The Pass — John O’Connor
Thin, Brilliant Lines — Patrick Myers

CRITICISM:

Thinking/Cartooning — Zak Breckenridge

POETRY:

The Secret Nancy — Nancy Reddy
Hogwash + Fullboat — Christopher Robinson
Our Town + Sinnerman — Wesley Rothman
Glenn Gould + Meeting Rain, Wutai Mountain — Wang Jiaxin (translated by Diana Shi & George O’Connell)

ART:

NEGATIVE SPACE: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Sluts: A Play — Ben Merriman
Tie a Yellow Ribbon — Atar Hadari

RECOMMENDATIONS:

A Treatise on Shelling Beans, by Wieslaw Mysliwski, Archipelago Books, 2013, translated by Bill Johnston — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Just Kids by Patti Smith — Brian Sousa
All the Rage by A.L. Kennedy — Ethel Rohan
Miranda July’s It Chooses You — Shelly Oria
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus — Cari Luna
Three Lives — Megan Marshall
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks — Katherine Karlin
An Altered Book by Cara Barer — Alexandra Chasin
The White Tide — Steven Church
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — David Samuel Levinson
Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani (Akashic Books) — Laura K. Warrell

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Robert Chibka):

Swapped — Kate McMahon
The Sleeping Kingdom — Caitlin Keefe Moran
The Disappearing Wife — Simon Savelyev
Dandy — Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

ETCETERA:

The Little Things — Will Dowd

CONTRIBUTORS:

COVER ART: Gina Kamentsky, “Saga #2,” 2013 found metal, steel rod, ceramic and plastic figures, 9″ x 16″ x 5″

Post Road Magazine – Issue #27 | Fall/Winter 2014

FICTION:

Sunday Lunch And Black Hole — Joy Allen
The Girl I Hate — Mona Awad
Ultraviolet — Kenneth Calhoun
Chix and Quarters — Colin Fleming
Rotten Fruit — Chris Messer
Story — Andrew Wickenden
The Wild Pandas of Chincoteague — Gregory J. Wolos

NONFICTION:

The Revolution Continues, Why Do You Water the Grass? — Rebecca Chace
Donna and the Country Queens — Abigail Carl-Klassen
The Dolphin Lady of Siesta Key — Kathrin Harris
A Class Act — Paul Schmidtberger

CRITICISM:

Frederick Seidel’s Bad Taste — Michael Robbins

POETRY:

Another Day — Michael Bazzett
Arnold Schultz Tells the Hug-eyed Boy — J. Camp Brown
Film Sonnet + Film Sonnet — James Franco
Defense Of Poetry + Defense Of Poetry — Christian Anton Gerard
The Moirologist + Geometry — David Moolten
Betty Carter at The Blue Room + Dixie White House Photo — Carolyne Wright

ART:

Richard Hambleton: The American Pop Expressionist—with Introduction by Kristine Woodward

THEATRE:

The Sluts: A Play — Ben Merriman
Tie a Yellow Ribbon — Atar Hadari

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Ayiti by Roxane Gay — Alicia Erian
Manual de Zoologia Fantastica — Melissa Febos
What It Is by Lynda Barry — Joe Garden
The Death of Mr. Baltisberger by Bohumil Hrabal — Pete Hausler
U and I and I — Ryan McIlvain
The Centaur by John Updike — Adam Sexton
The Home For Wayward Clocks — G. K. Wuori

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Carlo Rotella):

How It’s Done: A Criminal Defense Investigator at Work — Patrick Conway
How I Work (KO 0) — Charles Farrell
Winter House — Chris Staudinger

CONTRIBUTORS:

COVER ART: Kevin Van Aelst, “Paradigm Shift,” 2012 Digital c-print, 40″ x 30″

Post Road Magazine: Issue #26 | Spring/Summer 2014

FICTION:

Loan Suite — Emma Healey
Bright Shiny Things — Martin Cloutier
Omniplanet — Robert Uren
Haystacks — Jaime deBlanc-Knowles
The Summer Hannah Wore a Hat — Matt Izzi
The Price of Admission — Jonathan Papernick
The Woman Who Came from the Garden — Rachael Inciarte
People Are Just Dying to Meet You — David Samuel Levinson
Chendru — Amie Barrodale
Upcountry — Josh Wallaert

NONFICTION:

In Jamaica — Liz Solms
Disintegration, Loops — Marin Sardy
Room For My Knees — Frankie Lopes
Lantern Festival — Ellen Goldstein
Urban Guerrillas — Annabelle Larsen

CRITICISM:

Agee’s Astonishment — Brian Norman

POETRY:

In Which I Hoard the Air Escaping + Wait in the Bathtub and It Will Carry You — Angela Voras-Hills
What I Meant When I Said Failure + Through the Looking Glass — Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Matisse in Norwegian Museum Once Nazi Loot, Family wants Returned + Catachresis — Jolene Brink
Freakishly Beautiful Head + Out of Sorts — Jeremy Voigt

ART:

Ground Control: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Sluts: A Play — Ben Merriman
Tie a Yellow Ribbon — Atar Hadari

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Green Darkness by Anya Seton — Debra Ginsberg
Q&A Reflections — David L. Harrison
Eating a Devil’s Lunch with Aleksandar Ristovic — Dan Chelotti
Writing Lessons in Peggy Rathmann’s Good Night, Gorilla — Nancy Zafris
Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage — Rachel Shteir
“Dirty Wedding” — Steven Lee Beeber
The Iceman Cometh Again — Kevin Dowd
Gorilla, My Love” — Linda Schlossberg
The Value of Voice — David Philip Mullins
On Akutagawa’s Kappa — Hugh Sheehy
E.R.B. and the Red Planet — Peter Glassgold
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi — Rebecca Chace
You Are the Robert Walser! — Mina Pam Dick
“Reunion,” Cheever and Ford — Stuart Nadler
Moving Waters, stories by Racelle Rosett — Jessica Keener

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Suzanne Matson):

Animal Behavior — Billy Collins
For the Young Woman I Saw Hit by a Car While Riding Her Bike + Atmosphere — Laura Kasischke
Going to Caldwell — Katrin Tschirgi
Against Uncertainty + Against Imperialism — Christopher Merrill
A Winter Wound — Peter Fallon
Song of Argos — Derek Sheffield
Penguins — Meg Kearney
Judenplatz + Cabin — Jennifer Barber
Southern California Ode (1969) + Climate — Baron Wormser
Chiron, on Achilles + First Tattoo — Caitlin Lahsaiezadeh
Sixteen, + Body, Body — Fred Marchant
Still Life with Light Bulb + Poco a Poco — Betsy Sholl
Poem With Refrain By Linda Nathan — Robert Pinsky
The Other Man + Spending the Night + The Categorical Imperative Poem — David Wagoner

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Mia Brownell, detail from “Still Life with Lost Migration,” 2012; Oil on canvas, 24″ x 20″

Post Road Magazine – Issue #25 | Fall/Winter 2013

FICTION:

Divinatory Experiment, a selection from Installation #9: Revenge of the Nerds: Ideal Suggestion (Love), by Selah Saterstrom
The Eater, by Vivian Lawry
Confessions, by Trinie Dalton
Red Owl, by Brandon Hobson
Beach Town + Liberty, by Paul Lisicky
Da Capo, by Kerry Lanigan
Trees in the City, by Bonnie Nadzam
The Child Shaman, by Eric J. Wallace

NONFICTION:

An Inherited Condition, by Suzanne Koven
The Stages of Civility, by Teri Carter
Missing, by Jacob Melvin
The Pearl, by Suzanne Farrell Smith

CRITICISM:

Is Psychoanalysis Too Serious? by Ezra Feinberg

POETRY:

The Leshan Giant Buddha + A Sickle, by Tan ChaoChun — trans. by Zhong Jie
How On Earth + Wah Wah, by Tyrone Williams
Death and the Four-Year-Old + Last Meeting + Christmas, by Holly Karapetkova

ART:

About Angels — Carl E. Hazlewood

THEATRE:

The Winner, by Don Cummings

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Pippi and Mr. Hyde — Audrey Schulman
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen Megan — Mayhew Bergman
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, by Lucinda Rosenfeld
Brazilian Adventure, by Peter Fleming — Michael Lowenthal
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner — Nichole Bernier
The Lost World — Urban Waite
The Wine Went down in the Bottle: The Passive Beauty of John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat — Pete Hausler
I Have Heard You Calling in the Night by Thomas Healy — Jay Baron Nicorvo
You Can’t Tell a Book by its Title — Samuel Reifler
The Three Marias: Whatever Happened to Portugal’s Pussy Riot? — Oona Patrick
Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll by Joe Oestreich — Will Allison
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt — James Scott
Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres — Tova Mirvis
The Strange Question of Alberto de Lacerda — Scott Laughlin
Dorothy L. Sayers — Kelly Braffet
The Islands of George Mackay Brown — Steve Himmer
Preston Falls by David Gates — Jonathan Dixon

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Elizabeth Graver):

Introduction Elizabeth Graver
The Last I Saw Mitsou, by Karin C. Davidson
A Local Myth, by Joseph Fazio
Apology Number 21, or What You Should Know About the Library, by Edward Hardy
Rooted, by Lesley Mahoney
Through the Closed Door, by Lee Martin
Dedications, by Katie Moulton
Novitiate, by Meaghan Mulholland
Only Softly, by Buki Papillon
Biography of the Artist, by John Parras
Passages, by C.R. Resetarits

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Jan Reymond “Passage de la Tour”