Current Issue

Issue 8.3 / September 2022

Letter from the Co-Editor

A. J. Bermudez

Issue design by Avanti Nambiar

Look at these metal spheres, Grandfather said, holding the objects in his hands for my siblings and me to see. These are not marbles. They will never be marbles.

Marbles, and Other Things of a Spherical Shape

Martin Piñol

Nonfiction

we praise no god in this new land, but every mother’s kitchen

hum becomes the holiest worship.

the first national anthem

Jason B. Crawford

Poetry

In the proximity of longtime friends, even mundane memories turned to sparklers—bright, sizzling, a delight to hold for a few moments.

Sea Change

Sarah Fannon

Fiction

The Maine Review’s author interview series

Discover the breakthrough moments of writer Gretchen Legler, author of WOODSQUEER: CRAFTING A SUSTAINABLE RURAL LIFE, published by Trinity University Press on February 15, 2022. With interviewer Megan Vered, Legler discusses her writing, drawing, and editing processes and what it means to live a sustainable life.

Current Issue

Issue 8.3 / September 2022

Letter from the Co-Editor

Radicle: The Roots of Writers

with Gretchen Legler

Nonfiction

Mother Cake

Erasure: How You Were Made

A Matter of Taste

Circled by Sun

The Expectation

Love’s Drowning

Marbles, and Other Things of a Spherical Shape

Fiction

Summer of ’76

Sea Change

Home Schooling

Set the City Spinning

But You Didn’t

The Sound of Emily

Poetry

How Mothers Begin Lineages

translations of an ancient text

the first national anthem

Unreadable

On The Fact That The Heart Is The Size Of A Fist

There Is a Border Inside My Autumnal Mind

Equidistance

Grayout of Ada Lovelace’s New York Times Obituary by Claire Cain Miller

-ing

Yet Another Poem at Solstice

Narrative Device

persimmon song

Radicle Book Reviews

A review of Victoria Chang’s Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Kara Zivin

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