Issue 10.1/Spring 2024 - The Maine Review

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Then she asked how long it would take to get there. As if we’d never made the trip before.

West

Katie Zeigler

Fiction

While having a famous father-in-law is not literally the least interesting thing about me, most days it hovers suspiciously close to that designation.

The Name Dropper

J Brooke

Nonfiction

Let’s mince words:
growing up, idioms weren’t a piece of pie.

Idiom Idiot

Alfredo Antonio Arevalo

Poetry

Nonfiction

Fiction

Poetry

I tell myself, You should write a poem

Ja’net Danielo

Prayers to the Patron Saint of Lost Things with Mixed Results

Amy Meckler

Everything Is Equal When You’re Distorted By the Afterlife

Kelli Russell Agodon

Finally, After Years of Being Someone Else, I’ve Slowly Become

Susan Rich

List Poem in Which There Is at Least One Lie

Annaka Saari

The First Poem I Write After My Father Dies

Allyson Wuerth

Death of a Fox

Matt Bernier

The Maine Review’s author interview series

Discover the breakthrough moments of poet and translator Ewa Chrusciel, author of Yours, Purple Gallinule, published by Omnidawn. With interviewer Shanta Lee, Chrusciel discusses her poetry, translation, opening up language, and how linguistics influences her work.

Nonfiction

Cruelty at Recess

The Name Dropper

On the Variations

What I Took

Fiction

Myrmecomorphy

West

A Tortilla

Sassafras

Ride

Red Mansions

Poetry

Leftover Women

The Breaking

[I was told the best rituals]

I tell myself, You should write a poem

Prayers to the Patron Saint of Lost Things with Mixed Results

Everything Is Equal When You’re Distorted By the Afterlife

Finally, After Years of Being Someone Else, I’ve Slowly Become

Idiom Idiot

List Poem in Which There Is at Least One Lie

The First Poem I Write After My Father Dies

Death of a Fox

Radicle: The Roots of Writers

with Shanta Lee

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