30.2 - Summer/Fall 2018
2017 Barthelme Prize
- Pedro by DJ Thielke (Winner)
- The Things We Could Not Say by Lishani Ramanayake (Honorable Mention)
- Sunscreen by Eric Schlich (Honorable Mention)
2017 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation
- from Time to Be by Camila Reimers transl. by Lisa Carter (Winner)
Fiction
- Paper by Cara Blue Adams
- When the Tide of Misfortune Hits, Even Jelly Will Break Your Teeth by Porochista Khakpour
- The Island by Debbie Urbanski
- Stay and Go by Tyler Barton
- Setting Up Your Voicemail Greeting by Kristen Arnett
Poetry
- dear poem by Lara Ruter, transl. by Maximiliane Donicht
- Tensile by Rebecca Dunham
- from How to Dress a Fish by Abigail Chabitnoy
- Maaru Tang for “The Mycelium” by Anja Snellman, transl. Maija Makinen
- Prognosis at Midnight by Yuki Tanaka
- The Noise of Time is Not Sad by Chad Bennett
- Ways of Emerging by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, transl. Sarah Timmer Harvey
- Epistle from the Hospital for Text Messaging by Jenny Molberg
- Subvocal (Hadley) by Mark Neely
- Group Sex by Rebecca Hazelton
- The Most Faded Word by Nadia Anjuman, transl. Diana Arterian and Marina Omar
- God-shaped Woman by Adeeba Talukder
- If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun by Christopher Citro
- There’s No Wrong Way to Eat a Reese’s by Jeremy Radin
- [To say I love you put a bird on a wire] by Mike Soto
- Dark Helicopter by Jennifer Metsker
- Single Mother by Marina Yuszczuk, transl. by Alexis Almeida
- Shane Seely by Shane Seely
- Holy Thank You For Not by Megan Falley
- In Hoffellsdalur by Gyrðir Elíasson
- This Year I Turned 38 by BJ Love
Nonfiction
- Slowly We Have the Feeling #9 and #10 by Renee Gladman
- Parachutes by Joshua Wheeler
- Lynn, Lynn, the City of Sin by Jeff Wasserboeh
Art
- Claiming Marclay's The Clock as Poetry by Melissa Barrett
- Dust Balls by Brandon Brown
- Mud Canción by Laura August
Reviews and Interviews
- Conversant: An Interview with taisha paggett by Kemi Adeyemi interviewing taisha paggett
- Four Titles from New Directions by Christian Bancroft
- “Not a fine light flickering”: Dara Wier’s In the Still of the Night by Dara Wier
- Shock Value: Kathy Acker's larger-than-life personal condensed to human proportions by Wendy Vogel
- Touched in Some Way by Flight: Five Books of Contemporary Poetry by Conor Bracken