The fourth issue of Foundry features cover art by Yolanda del Amo. In writing, find poetry by Maureen Alsop, Elisa Gonzalez, Emma Bolden, Bo Schwabacher, Michelle Lin, and more. Poetry by Brionne Janae, John Allen Taylor, and Cynthia Manick are also found in the issue, the three poets later answering five questions in conversation.

Issue #44 includes poetry by Moira Linehan, Frank Ormsby, Jessica Greenbaum, Matthew Dulany, George Franklin, Ovidio Reyes, David Ishaya Osu, Jeffrey Harrison, Betsy Sholl, Jacqueline Lyons, Yves Bonnefoy, and many others; fiction by Mary Crawford, James Winter, Steve Trumpeter, and Becky Hagenston; nonfiction by Marsha Pomerantz; and four reviews.

Life is full of open and closed doors—those moments when we did or didn't extend kindness to ourselves, to friends, to family, or to strangers. In this issue, we explore these opened and closed doors, learning through honest storytelling and art about crossing the threshold and how opening the door is a small but profound step toward kindness and hospitality. Featuring the 2017 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize recipient Sonja Livingston, awarded by judge Josh MacIvor-Andersen.

The latest issue of the Paterson Literary Review is #45 (2017) and its 356 pages includes work by Jan Beatty, Martin Espada, Jim Haba, Joe Weil, Laura Boss, Marge Piercy and many others. As always, the issue includes the winning and honorable mention poems for that year's Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award.

Continuing to celebrate our 40th anniversary, the spring issue features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, and writing for children chosen by editors under the age of 40. Contributions by writers such as Chelsea Dingman, Alan Chazaro, Jerelle Kraus, Hannah Rego, Ricardo Soltero-Brown, Jonathan Weinert, and many others.

In Brick 99, you’ll find the latest from Don DeLillo, Pura López Colomé, Shailja Patel, and Johanna Skibsrud. Our Summer 2017 issue also features a conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, poetry by Natalie Shapero and Yusuf Saadi, a portfolio of Kent Monkman’s decolonizing artwork, and fiction in translation by Antonio Di Benedetto. Erica Johnson Debeljak goes on her first journeys as a widow; Mustapha Safadieh remembers a firefight in Abra; Mark Anthony Jarman rescues a Croatian Madonna; Valerie Miles charts Bolaño’s America; Joni Murphy seeks a new language for memorials; and Janet Hong dives with the haenyeo.

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