General 1 — Alaska Quarterly Review

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A bumblebee feeds on the pollen and nectar of a cluster of broccoli flowers in a garden in Kodiak, Alaska.
© 2023 Marion Owen

Marion Owen is a Kodiak, Alaska-based photographer, video creator, and writer. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The Nature Conservancy, Better Homes & Gardens, TIME, Audubon, and Smithsonian Magazine. Find Marion on YouTube at: The Gardeners Coach.

AQR Vol. 39, No. 3 & 4, Summer/Fall 2023

Table of Contents

Stories

Recovering the Opposable Thumb, Jake Maynard
Boat, Julie Esther Fisher
No More Bodies of Water, Emma Pattee
The Tao of Sylvie, Miriam Karmel
Receding Portrait, David Galef
A Place to Keep Moonlight, Rebecca Bernard
Carlotta’s Jacuzzi, Myles Zavelo
This Passion, Claire Seymour

Essays

Heartwood, Jenna Devan Waters
Daffodils, Alyce Miller
Half-Room, Half-Moon, Gabriela Halas
Once, Michael Bogan
Snapshots from the Garden, Joan Murray

Poetry

The Blues Band, Matthew Zapruder
The Super Bowl, Matthew Zapruder
After so much destruction I give up, Jamaica Baldwin
L’Heure Bleue, Virginia Konchan
Privacy, Virginia Konchan
It Is, Jennifer Barber
Cage Match, Robert Wood Lynn
Adam, Brooke Sahni
Cosmic, Mihaela Moscaliuc
On promising myself to buy only previously owned clothes, Mihaela Moscaliuc
Rasque, Mihaela Moscaliuc
On the Bedside Table, Mary Peelen
A Room Stacked with Newspaper, Eva Saulitis
Black Bread, Eva Saulitis
Moon Pool, Eva Saulitis
What I Remember about Dying, Dannye Romine Powell
Because There Was Nothing, Jason Tandon
Night Music, Kareem Tayyar
Fine Work, Sarah B Sullivan
Flatland, Mathew Weitman
Written in the Dark, Alison Hawthorne Deming
The Shut-Off Weir, Alison Hawthorne Deming
Erratic, Elizabeth Bradfield
The California Coast, Elizabeth Bradfield
When the Goldfinches Return to the Purple Coneflower, He Calls to Me, Patricia Clark
Follow the Sun, Rachel Hadas
Yoke, Rachel Hadas
Western Love Song Refusing the Apocalypse, Andrew Hemmert
Pretenses, Farah Peterson
Excerpt: 25 Years of Tiny Power, Annie Wenstrup
Today in the Mail a Card from Her Megan, Snyder-Camp
Granville in July, Laura Kolbe
The Double Life, Laura Kolbe
Year One, Jessica Greenbaum
Getting Rid of the God’s Eye My Child Made, Amy Dryansky