Levee Magazine fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Vivian Wagner lives in New Concord, Ohio, where she’s an associate professor of English at Muskingum University. She’s the author of Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music (Citadel-Kensington), The Village (Aldrich Press-Kelsay Books), and Curiosities (Unsolicited Press).

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In this issue: a feature a folio on Indigenous Futures and Imagining the Decolonial, edited by Raquel Salas Rivera, B.B.P. Hosmillo, and Sarah Clark. Our lit Poetry section features a dazzling array of gems by Brandon Melendez, Sara Grossman, torrin greenhouse, Khalypso, and more. In fiction are stories which insist that "even in the darkest, you can still hear life." On the Translation front, edited by Anna Rosenwong, we offer fresh and resistant takes on Catullus, Marina Tsvetaeva, Álvaro Lasso, and more. Plus, back by popular demand, more comics.

The latest issue of Concho River Review features fiction by Darren Dillman, Mark Mellon, Michael Mohr, Michael Mullen, and Michael Washburn; nonfiction by David Susman and Peter Warzel; poetry by twenty-seven poets, including Diana Anhalt, Jonathan Bracker, Robert Cooperman, William Virgil Davis, Paul Dickey, Paula Friedman, Michelle Hartman, Zebulon Huset, Marilee Richards, Bonnie Stanard, and Ron Wallace; and an interview with poet and memoirist Brian Turner.

The Christmas 2018 issue features work by Kayli Meek, Stephane Levy, FMA Dixon, Erik Burckel, Lexie Reese, Charlene Langfur, Salvatore Difalco, Robert Sachs, Anthony DiCarlo, Mary F. Lee, Devki Pande, Benjamin Goluboff, Elizabeth Connell, Linda Duede Starbuck, and Tyler Paterson.

This year's issue of the poetry review takes on social media. Contributors include Dan Albergotti, Ciaran Berry, Tara Betts, Rick Bursky, Kwame Dawes, BK Fischer, Eugene Gloria, Morgan Harden, Karen An-hwei Lee, Margaret Mackinnon, Thorpe Moeckel, Jason Myers, and more.

What matters in this world? We are all always asking this question whether we realize it or not, and it's a brave act to honestly and intentionally hold this question. The words and images gathered in this issue give space for the writer, artist, and reader to ponder our mortality and our meaning in this life together. You'll find Paula Harris' winning poem from our 2018 Poetry Prize, and the runner-up poem by Clemonce Heard titled “Our Hands are Bowls of Dust.” With stunning fiction, nonfiction, art, and more lovely poems, we explore how we are all formed by the earth and eventually and sacredly return to it.

Poetry by Jennifer Clarvoe, Ira Sadoff, Rebecca Foust, Rage Hezekiah, Dai Weina, Gail Mazur, Yudit Shahar, Joyce Peseroff, Teresa Cader, Vismai Rao, David Ferry, Diane Mehta, Fred Marchant, Paul Rowe, George Kalogeris, AD Tenn, and many more; fiction by Matthew Dougherty, winner of the Salamander Fiction Contest, and Heather De Bel, who placed second; nonfiction by Oona Patrick and Grace Talusan; and reviews by Drew Swinger, Katie Sticca, and more.

In this issue, find fiction by Joshua Isard, Sean Murray, Kim Farleigh, Lisa Bubet, and Emily Townsend; nonfiction by Gabriela Denise Frank, A.J. Romriell, Lori Horvitz, and Anna Kaye-Rogers; and poetry by Kerry Trautman, Thomas Griffin, Michael Jack O’Brien, Barry Peters, Anna Harris-Parker, Abhijit Sarmah, and Charles Cantrell. In flash fiction, find the 2018 Julia Peterkin Award for Flash Fiction winner (Natalie Troy) and runners up (Charlie Watts, John Mattson, Kathleen Wheaton, and D. Nolan Jefferson).