Author: Post Road

Post Road Magazine – Issue #36 | Spring/Summer 2019

FICTION:

You and Me Could Really Exist — Marianne Leone
Here  — Jason Namey
Drought — Jensen Beach
Blood Loss — Philip Probasco
Forgetting Everything I Know — Marston Hefner
Single — Genevieve Plunkett
The Day Diana Died — Emily Lackey

NONFICTION:

Kaw-liga — Amber Wheeler Bacon
Moments of Clarity — Eddie P. Gomez
Fun with Peter — George Choundas
Obituary — J. David Stevens

POETRY:

Periphery  — Bradley Clompus

ART:

Karl Heine: No Permission
Mel Rolleri

THEATRE:

Spring Break at the DMV  — Dalton Day

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker — Emily Carr
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed — Brandi Wells
Virginia Woolf and Nicholson Baker — Lewis Robinson
No Country for Old Men — Stephen Markley
Ludwig Bemelmans — Janet Pocorobba

GUEST FOLIO: “Place as Palimpsest”

Edited by Suzanne Matson
Introduction
Beijing — David Huntington
True Abandon — Gretchen Steele Pratt
Six 100-word Memoirs — Paul Doherty
Ilya — Ashley Keyser
Five Ways to Read a Village — Sam Kemp
If In New York Near Torok’s Grave — Cal Freeman
Commute — E. Shaskan Bumas
A Brief History of Ice — Alexandra Teague
In the Shadow of the El (excerpt) — Paul Mariani
City Kingfisher — Marina Richie
I Came Here for Some Answers — Lois Roma-Deeley

FICTION:

That Time He Felt the World Turn + The Splitting Image, by Ethel Rohan
Flutter Flake, by Ross Barkan
Night Class, by Jessica Francis Kane
Sunset Judas, by Steven Tweddell
Balloons, by Michael Graves
Readers and Writers, by Ryan Boudinot
The Revenge of Umslopogaas, by Tony Eprile

NONFICTION:

A Woman in Brine, by Kate Crane
The ABCs of Parting, by Gail Hosking
A Tremendous (Experience of) Fish
Haystacks Lauren Fath Craig Reinbold

CRITICISM

#GentlemanlyPursuits in Paul Kahan’s Chicago, by A-J Aronstein

POETRY:

A Rocket to Venus + Walk Through, by Greg Nicholl
The County Fair Building for Animal Husbandry + We Are Fewer than Before, by Adam Houle
Jap + ’Nam, by Brian Komei Dempster
Dark Daisy + The Lingering, by Adam Giannelli
Mazatlan + Learning the Fastball, by Gary Dop
Older Sister + Earl Grey, by Brenna W. Lemieux
When we left medicine behind + Quantum Physics and You, by E. Kristin Anderson

ART:

Valerie Brennan: Peanut Gallery, by Dünny Josafat Potter
Molly Herman: Silverpoint Series, by Molly Herman
Lucy Mink: Strangely Familiar Places, by Cary Smith

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Peacock Spring by Rumer Godden — Sarah Gardner Borden
A Love Letter for Love, an Index (McSweeney’s Poetry Series) — Traci Brimhall
Years Are Bearing Us to Heaven: Donald Barthelme’s The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, or the Hithering Thithering Djinn — Paul La Farge
How to Live Safely in a Science —
Fictional Universe by Charles Yu — Ethan Gilsdorf
Seven Books in Seven Days — Jo Ann Beard
The Work of Stanley Elkin — Seth Fried

GUEST FOLIO:

Introduction: Writing the Body: Creative Nonfiction, by Amy Boesky
O Is for Old, by Priscilla Long
No Good Way, by Caitlin Moran
At Sea, by Christie Rogers
Elliptical Journey, by Floyd Skloot
Body Without Organs, by Martha Stoddard Holmes
The Start Grace Talusan, by Amy Boesky

FICTION:

We Shared a Duplex, by Jenn Hollmeyer
Seeds Like Teeth, by Delaney Nolan
Sliding Door, by Nora Cameron
Wisteria, by Catherine Parnell
Your Translator, My Brunette, by Amy Boutell
Charcoal for Locust, by D. Gatling Price
Big Ray, or Some Things Concerning My Childhood, with an Emphasis on My Father, by Michael Kimball

NONFICTION:

How to Remember the Dead, by Curtis Smith
The Place Called Mother, by Melanie Unruh
The Bare Minimum of Him, by Alissa Tsukakoshi
Open Late Hours, by Zachary Watterson
Prologue, a Letter: the Twin & Her Lover, Lacan & the Other, by Addie Tsai

CRITICISM:

Writers and Critics at the Dinner Table: Tristram Shandy as Conversational Model, by Cynthia Northcutt Malone

POETRY:

Cauliflower Soup + Storm Damage, by Peter Schireson
Flight Perils + Sonnets for Kudryavka, by Sally Wen Mao
Exact Science + Hollow + Scale, by Joshua Ruffin
So Many Ways I’ve Tried to Hold You + Mashallah, by Jennifer Tonge
The Turns They Have Taken from Bye-Bye Land, by Christian Barter

ART:

Jim Hett: They’re All The Same Except They’re Different

THEATRE:

Notebook of Answers, by Kaveh Bassiri

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Pike by Benjamin, by Whitmer — Owen Hill
Sanctuary by William Faulkner — James Boice
Easy — Jim Lewis
Travels In Moominvalley — Caitlin Horrocks
Naked with Innocence — Holly Le Craw
Lights, Camera, Lesson — Stephan Merrill Block
East of Eden by John Steinbeck — Jane Roper
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut — Dave King
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies — Lisa Abend
Recommending King Driftwood — Rimas Uzgiris
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde — Amanda Stern

GUEST FOLIO:

Google Moon, by Anna Leahy
Two Cameos, by Rhina P. Espaillat
Ch Arter + Floundering, by Adam Vines
Mediterranean + Galilee, by Maggie Dietz
Winter Exercises, by Len Krisak
Daughters of a Boardinghouse Keeper, by Skye Shirley
In Escher’s Rooms + Quissett + “And Now Nothing Will Be Restrained From Them”, by Daniel Tobin
The Passover Weddings, by Atar Hadari
Dinner and a Movie, Green Canyon, Utah, by Michael Sowder
The Accidental Stage, by Sean Keck

FICTION:

The Zulo, by Julian Zabalbeascoa
Man’s Best Friend, by Ann Hood
Sailor Man, by Jason Ockert
Little Marvels, by Julie Innis

NONFICTION:

The Memory Pavilion, by Elizabeth Kadetsky
The Coffin Handles Were Stalks of Wheat, by C. Ronald Edwards
Once In Cuba, by Eliezra Schaffzin

CRITICISM:

A Literary Manifesto after the End of Literature and Manifestos, or Nude in Your Hot Tub with a Good View of the Abyss, by Lars Iyer

POETRY:

Portrait of Crippled Poet as Woman + Art Lesson, by Erin Lynn Marsh
Harmonica + Harmonica II, by Amorak Huey
Aandaal: The Autobiography of a Goddess, by Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Ravi Shankar
The Bridges Are on the Ground + Chord & Hem, by Alessandra Simmons

ART:

Yolanda Petrocelli, by Elizabeth Ferrer

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Jennifer Egan Is Better than Jonathan Franzen, by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
“A Loud, Lonely Cry for Happiness”: The Late George Apley, by John P. Marquand — Sarah Braunstein
Six Memos for the Next Millennium, by Italo Calvino — Stacy Carlson
Mark Slouka’s Essays from the Nick of Time,, by Valerie Duff-Strautmann
“Are You Making Fun of Me?”, by Alethea Black
Trash and Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison — Devon Sprague

GUEST FOLIO: Edited by Lad Tobin

The Dreariest Art, or Why I Write Book Reviews, by Leah Hager Cohen
Why I Write for Children by Carolyn Coman with Rob Shepperson
Poet, Heal Thyself, by Camille T. Dungy
When the Farmer Clutches the Rake: Writing the Real, by Cheryl Strayed

CONTRIBUTORS

Cover Art: “young yellow” (detail) by Jennifer Reeves

FICTION:

Meet Me at the Hedge, My Love — Caren Beilin
How We Looked — James Scott
Chili 4-Way — Michael Martone

NONFICTION:

The Mouth of the Volga — Trent Hergenrader
Touch — Eson Kim
We Smoked in Silence Peter Stenson
Rondo Elizabeth Bales Frank
Dirt — D. Foy

CRITICISM:

For the Love of New York — Asad Raza

POETRY:

Excerpt + Decision — Norman Finkelstein
Rallying in Rhode Island + Duologue in Delaware — Martin Ott and John F. Buckley

12. District Courthouse, Divorce Court, White Plains, New York + 1. Apocalyptic Wife — Elizabeth Powell
Saint Rust + Saint Say It (Over and Over Again) — Weston Cutter

ART:

Knox Martin – Woman: Black and White Paintings by Kristine Woodward

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Stories of John Cheever — Micah Nathan
John Edgar Wideman: The Last Great Radical — Michelle Hoover
Recommending “First Love” by Samuel Beckett — William Walsh
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz — Janice Shapiro
In Youth Is Pleasure, by Denton Welch — Koren Zailckas
One Good Book Leads to Another — Caroline Leavitt
Winter Reading: Jane Brox’s Brilliant — Belle Boggs
Cynthia Morrison Phoel’s Cold Snap — Tracy Winn
The Possibilities of Fiction — Michael Kimball

GUEST FOLIO

Worship — Matthew Di Paoli
The Golden Brain — Donald MacLeod Harrison
Silver Jingle Bobs, The Importance of — Meredith Steinbach
Winter Sky — Barry K. Wade

CONTRIBUTORS

FICTION:

Golden State, by Emma Cline
Father’s Day, by Joseph Scapellato
Davey, by Jesse Cataldo
Alamo Nights, by Sumanth Prabhaker
Raw Material, by Alanna Schubach
An Inheritance, by Dan Pope

NONFICTION:

Ophelia, by Hannah Retzkin
Self-Portrait, Number 1, by Katherine Lien Chariott
The Politics of Play, by Megan Kaminski
I Probably Let Some of It Slip Once, by Jonathan Starke

CRITICISM:

Rebuilding Aesthetics from the Ground Up, by Lindsay Waters

POETRY:

Letters on Space and Hands + Hamal, by Adam Day
Will of the Stunt Double + Once a Boy, by Eric Morris
Summer Evening, Hopper + House of the Fog Horn, No. 3,
Hopper, by Christopher Tozier
Asbury Park, Just Before Winter + Words for a Night Singer, by Jeffrey Alfier

ART:

Luis Coig: Paintings Luis Coig Theatre

THEATRE:

Dante And Beatrice, 2010 + Fugue for a Man and a Woman, by A. S. Maulucci

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Olive Higgins Prouty’s Now, Voyager — Joanna Smith Rakoff
John Dos Passos: USA Trilogy — Pearl Abraham
Treasure Island: An Appreciation — Max Grinnell
Kamby Bolongo Mean River by Robert Lopez — Matt Bell
Shining Examples of Literary Bastards — Natalie Danford
Victor La Valle’s Big Machine — Laura van den Berg
Books with Pictures — Rebecca Chace
Nox, by Anne Carson — Amy Scheibe

GUEST FOLIO

A Plea to My Vegan Great-grandchildren + My Billy Collins Moment, by A.M. Juster
Bubbie + Power 69, by Robert Pack
Saro’s Love Song, by Joseph Bottum
A Vision of India, by Whitney Dubie
The Guinness at Tigh Mholly, by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
A Kind Of Ductility + Morning, by Simone Kearney
When Asked to Explain the Fall of Mankind Hannah Armbrust 80 The Setting Evening + Self-Portraits, by Stuart Krimko
Reasons to Search for Earth-like Planets + Ascension in the Uffizi Courtyard, by Will Dowd
Pavor Nocturnus with Relativity + Someone Will Have to Tell You, by Bianca Stone
The Argument + Proud Hand, by Adam Fitzgerald
Prelusion + The Futurists, by Allison Power
The Visitor + Watching the Light + For Who Knows How Long, by Tryfon Tolides