& Christopher Kempf

EDITORS’ NOTE

Adam McGee, Ed Pavlić, & Evie Shockley

TWO

Sagit Emet, translated from the Hebrew

TO THE FORDHAM

NEWT WAS NOT a little man. He was thick, hairy, and

WHEN THE CLIMATE CHANGED

THE NEWS ON THE COMPUTER was full of the damage from

ALL WE REMEMBER WILL BE FORGOTTEN

“It will be the most wonderful sound I could ever imagine

MOTHER, GROW MY BABY

(Winner of the Fall 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest)

CHAPATI RECIPE

(a finalist for the Aura Estrada Short Story Contest)

SAY SOMETHING

JOHANSSEN WAS THE WHITEST PARK in the whitest neighborhood

FROM THE KINDREDS

(a Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest finalist)

FROM MASS EXTINCTION

Nothing that interesting has come out

AT THE GATES, MIKHAIL MAKES ME A FEAST OF RAIN AND DIRT

(a finalist for the Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest)

THREE POEMS

(Winner of the 2019 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest)

AGAINST TRAVEL: A COLLABORATION

Rachel Levitsky & Suzanne Goldenberg

ACTIVATION INSTRUCTIONS // UNTITLED 3D POEM

Cut along the dotted lines.

‘ALAMS FROM THE BLACK HORSE PRISON, TRIPOLI, CIRCA 1981

‘Alams are short poems composed and chanted by Bedouin

A REQUEST

Fix me to your idea of midnight. Meaning

ANOTHER WAY TO LOVE THIS WORLD

Abdellah Taia, translated from the French

TRANSLATION

(from The Freezer Door)

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOCIAL JUSTICE ALLY

AT THE START of 2019, gay journalist Jonathan Rauch

THE PRIVILEGE OF THE ALLY

I FINALLY SAID IT aloud on a panel at AWP (the annual

THE HISTORIAN AND THE REVOLUTIONARY

Walter Johnson & Tef Poe interviewed by Mordecai Lyon

SOLIDARITY THROUGH POETRY

(from Social Poetics)

“ WE CANNOT BE THE SAME AFTER THE SIEGE”

AT THE BEATRIZ GONZÁLEZ RETROSPECTIVE mounted by Miami’s

ALLY: FROM NOUN TO VERB

PIANIST, COMPOSER, SCHOLAR, public intellectual, and

CONTRIBUTORS

Amy Sara Carroll is an Assistant Professor of Literary