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Our January 2019 Issue contains brilliant flash nonfiction from Abby Mims, Dustin Parsons, Susan Jackson Rodgers, Prajeet Heir, Sam Kiss, Amy Stonestrom, Rebecca McClanahan, John Skoyles, Richard Hoffman, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Bryn Chancellor, Niya Marie, Jennifer Wortman, Lisa Fay Coutley, and Harrison Candelaria Fletcher. In our Craft Section, Nicole Breit reveals the power of the literary diptych (with writing prompts), Susan Bruns Rowe considers the elusiveness of voice, and Michael Downs shows how “a single sentence or detail or image – even a particular word – can act as a ‘vein of jade’ that makes the whole work glisten." And stunning artwork by Dev Murphy.

Issue 27 is here with nonfiction by Fred Haefele, CMarie Fuhrman, Lauren Fath, and Alexis Bonogofsky; fiction by Brady Harrison, Robert Kostuck, and Hillary Behrman; and poetry by Paulann Petersen, Tiah Lindner Raphael, Gene Goldfab, Zachary Eddy, Jeanne Julian, and Judith Chibante. Art by Kim Matthews Wheaton.

Together with the Lawrence-Minh But Davis of the Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Center, and Cathy Schlund-Vials, Professor of Asian American Studies and English at UConn, MR is proud to present a special issue on Asian American literature, Rethinking the Canon. With over 280 pages of new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic narrative, this issue reexamines the field and suggests where it might head next. With work by Kazim Ali, Marilyn Chin, Javanica Dai, Kimiko Hahn, Matt Huynh, Rami Karim, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Amit Majmudar, Amy Uyematsu, Ocean Vuong, Jane Wong, and many more.

In this issue, find Howard Faerstein’s editor selections in poetry: Eden Bailie, Emily Robidoux, Noel Sloboda, and Robert Schultz. Also in this issue are Virginia Pye’s editor selections in short fiction: Jason Grunspan, Jessica Barksdale, Lois Wolfe, and Victoria Kellawy.