AQR Vol. 39, No. 1 & 2, Winter/Spring 2023

About the Cover

About the cover and photographer
Moonrise, Parks Ridge Road, Alaska 1.5.22 © 2022 Kate Wool

Table of Contents

STORIES

song of the burning woman, ire’ne lara silva
Never Speak the Word Drown, Kate Blakinger
Sim, Alicia Oltuski
Ash Wednesday, Jacqueline Keren
Swimming Lessons, Michael Horton
Throwing Punches, Marlin Barton
Three-Season Room, Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
La Petite Mort, Ryan Habermeyer
Just This, Pamela Painter

ESSAYS

Hungry Ghost, May-lee Chai
Anufeek, Da Wuv Tonight?, DC Lambert
An Incision in the Reeds, Daniel Mueller
For Years I Said, Kate Angus
The Cave, Debbie Urbanski

LONG POEMS

Field Studies, Alison Hawthorne Deming
Dove of the Morning News, Bruce Bond

POEMS

Poem in Which St. Maria Goretti Gives Lilies to Her Murderer, Amanda Auchter
The Tenth Time, Meryl Natchez
The Dark Air, Mariella Nigro (Translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine M. Pitas)
The Rough Beast Never Asked to Be Born, Alexandra Teague
‘The Orange Blossom Special’ (Arranged for Rome’s Burning), Alexandra Teague
Guardian Angel, Jenna Le
De Colores, Emily Schulten
The Glass Parrot, Deborah Brown
Another Dedication—After Czeslaw Milosz, Emily Franklin
A Brief History of Hurricanes, Sara Henning
At the Beach the Summer My Mother Files for Divorce, Deciding, After Three Years, My Father Has Left for Good, Robin Chapman
CNN Says Nuclear War Could Break Out at Any Moment, Julie Danho
Dispatch from the Events Leading Up to the End, Megan Gannon
Birds Don’t Understand Us, Peter Krumbach
From Where I Flew, Mar Ka
House of Freaks, Nancy Miller Gomez
Office Farewell Party, Carrie Shipers
A Poet Travels to the South, Brian Gyamfi
Compass, Susan Rich
Magnetic North, Jessica Tanck
Each Other Moment, Jessica Greenbaum
To My Ancestors, Brent Ameneyro
portal traveler, Allison Akootchook Warden
When Home Says Stay, Sibongumusa Ncube
ancestry.com, John Bargowski
Father, Time Stephen Ackerman
What Shines?, Sydney Lea
Portrait of Aphasia on a Plum Tree, Carolina Hotchandani
Memory, Kareem Tayyar
Hearts and Arrows, Hailey Leithauser
Hera, in Her 80s, Sorting Photographs, Constance Crawford
Love Is What This Is, Eva Saulitis