KR Online Issues Archive

• Jan/Feb 2020

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  • FictionFiction

    • Joy Clark
      Nothing but the Blood
    • Greg Gerke
      The Wait
    • Inbar Livnat translated by Shoshana Akabas
      Relocation; Rift; Party
    • Janine Mikosza
      Tuna Mornay
    • Beth Morgan
      The Affected Area
    • Helen Schulman
      The Shabbos Goy
    • Terese Svoboda
      Polygamy

  • NonfictionNonfiction

    • Akpa Arinzechukwu
      A Brief History of Pain
    • Ali Rachel Pearl
      Out in This Desert

  • PoetryPoetry

    • Aldo Amparán
      Interrogation of the Sodomite
    • Chelsea Dingman
      Principles of Chaos
    • Miriam Bird Greenberg
      Of Sparrows; A Heron’s Age
    • David Kirby
      A Baby in the Piazza

  • HybridHybrid

    • Dean Rader
      Notes on Williams, Abstraction, and the Line

• Nov/Dec 2019

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  • FictionFiction

    • María Isabel Álvarez
      Only the Lonely
    • Jennifer Sears
      Pennies for Imagination, Wildflowers for Details
    • John Elizabeth Stintzi
      Carrying Hands
    • Morgan Thomas
      The Expectation of Cooper Hill

  • PoetryPoetry

    • Allison Adair
      Memento Mori: Bell Jar with Suspended Child
    • Noah Falck
      The Year Everything Looked Like Sky
    • Kristin Robertson
      Lottery; Lottery; Lottery

  • NonfictionNonfiction

    • Maayan Eitan translated from Hebrew by Oded Even Or
      I Once Thought That Normalcy Would Come Like Rain or Wind and Charm Me into Submission
    • Erin McReynolds
      Indicia
    • Rahul Mehta
      Tunnels

• Literary Activism

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  • PoetryPoetry

    • Wendy Barker
      Why Cages
    • Anne Carson
      Poverty Remix (Sestina)
    • John Casteen
      Blind Spot
    • Xi Chuan translated by Lucas Klein
      January 2011 in Egypt
    • Kate Fagan
      From The Midnight Charter
    • Robert Hass
      Creech Notebook 3: Drones in the Desert

  • NonfictionNonfiction

    • Dan Disney
      Author function(s)? Brecht’s “To Those Born Later”

  • Mixed GenreMixed Genre

    • James Byrne
      I am a Rohingya: Poetry from the World’s Largest Refugee Camp and Beyond

• Sept/Oct 2019

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  • FictionFiction

    • Ananda Lima
      Antropófaga
    • Joshua Shaw
      Hurry Down the Chimney Tonight
    • Crystal Wilkinson
      A Meditation on Grief: Things We Carry, Things We Remember

  • NonfictionNonfiction

    • Carla Diaz
      An Effort Toward Wholeness
    • Anna Hartford
      Light & Time
    • Alison Light
      Writing the Lives of “Common People”: Reflections on the Idea of Obscurity

  • PoetryPoetry

    • Grady Chambers
      Bottle Fly
    • torrin a. greathouse
      Against Yellow; The body of a girl…; Sonnet to be Printed…
    • Nomi Stone and Leah Zani
      Battlefields, Fieldpoems

  • DramaDrama

    • Samara Weiss
      Lucrece from the Dark

• July/Aug 2019

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  • FictionFiction

    • Colleen Hollister
      March
    • Ernesto René Rodríguez translated by Jacqueline Loss
      Summer, Like Summer
    • Joseph Santaella Vidal
      The Last Drive
    • David Wade
      Baptism
    • Jessica Walker
      Another Girl

  • PoetryPoetry

    • Hubert Matiúwàa translated by Jacqueline Loss
      The Mé’pháá Voice; The Rooster; Where the Izote Sings
    • Aleksandr Skidan translated by James H. McGavran III
      Three Poems

  • NonfictionNonfiction

    • Felicia Rose Chavez
      Memory Loop
    • Jehanne Dubrow
      Exhibition
    • Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
      “Mischief and Sorrow”: An Interview with Jericho Brown
    • Sonja Livingston
      Nota Bene: On the Bodies of Poor Boys
    • Caroline Sutton
      Eyes in the Soles of My Feet
    • Greg Wrenn
      Purple

  • DramaDrama

    • Sofya Levitsky-Weitz
      Heavy

• May/June 2019

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  • FictionFiction

    • T. C. Boyle
      Bicycle Day
    • Rachel Heng
      You Know I Want It Ice Cold
    • Kwame Opoku-Duku
      The Ruins
    • Jill Widner
      Yalda & Zhila
    • Ashley Wurzbacher
      Fake Mermaid

  • PoetryPoetry

    • Song Lin translated by Dong Li
      Farewell to C. D. Wright
    • Bruno K. Öijer translated by Victoria Haggblom
      Notes for One of Death’s Speeches
    • Tomasz Różycki translated by Mira Rosenthal
      The Third Planet
    • Adalber Salas Hernández translated by Robin Myers
      Four Poems

  • DramaDrama

    • Daaimah Mubashshir
      Molasses and a Blue Coat

  • NonfictionNonfiction

    • May-lee Chai
      In Liji Lane
    • Thaddeus Gunn
      An Inventory of the Possessions of William Kevin Thompson, Jr., Age 19, Upon his Expulsion from the Family Residence on October 20, 1971
    • Kimiko Hahn
      Trigger Happy
    • Dave Madden
      Later, in Filmmaking II
    • Jennifer Rabin
      In Defense of Waiting
    • Mira Rosenthal
      Translator’s Note: Voicing a Voice
    • Hasanthika Sirisena
      In the Presence of God I Make This Vow
    • Easton Smith
      The Essays We Are All Writing about the Grieving Orca Mother
    • Emily Wortman-Wunder
      Prairie in Hock

• Mar/Apr 2019

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  • FictionFiction

    • Brittany K. Allen
      Saints and Poets and Everyone Else
    • Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
      On My Honor
    • Mary O’Donoghue
      Officers
    • Adam O’Fallon Price
      Marrow
    • Emily W. Pease
      Ecstasy

  • PoetryPoetry

    • Tudor Crețu translated by Antuza Genescu
      [let me shake the snot off my fingers]
    • Aaron Fagan
      Cargo Cult
    • Brian Teare
      Olivine, Quartz, Granite, Carnelian
    • Jordi Valls i Pozo translated by Raoul Izzard
      The Wolf

  • NonfictionNonfiction

    • Susanne Paola Antonetta
      Filaments
    • Jennifer Gersten
      Recognitions
    • Askold Melnyczuk
      God Hunger: The Politics of Nonidentity
    • Annesha Mitha
      Baba
    • Steven Moore
      The Case for Zakir

• Proof Casts a Shadow

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  • March 2019March 2019

    • Misha Rai and Keith S. Wilson
      Introduction

  • March 2019March 2019

    • Keith S. Wilson
      A Pretty Rough Day

  • March 2019March 2019

    • Grace Shuyi Liew
      Two Poems

  • April 2019April 2019

    • Tsering Yangzom Lama
      A Wire Fence

  • April 2019April 2019

    • Xandria Phillips
      minotaurian

  • April 2019April 2019

    • Misha Rai
      We Don’t Need Your Little History

  • May 2019May 2019

    • Gabrielle Bellot
      By the Lamplight

  • May 2019May 2019

    • Xandria Phillips
      femme entanglement

  • May 2019May 2019

    • Nay Saysourinho
      Your Body has Thirty-Two Kwan

  • June 2019June 2019

    • Lars Horn
      In Water Disjointed from Me

  • June 2019June 2019

    • Xandria Phillips
      interrupture

  • June 2019June 2019

    • Phuong T. Vuong
      Let Me Be Honest

  • July 2019July 2019

    • Chaya Bhuvaneswar
      My Summer of Miranda Lambert

  • July 2019July 2019

    • Xandria Phillips
      untitled

  • July 2019July 2019

    • Raquel Salas Rivera
      selección de antes que isla es volcán selections from before island is volcano

  • August 2019August 2019

    • Keith S. Wilson
      Afterword

• Jan/Feb 2019

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  • FictionFiction

    • Chris Haven
      The Marks
    • Sarah Thankam Mathews
      Rubberdust
    • Matthew Socia
      The First Bed
    • Elaine van der Geld
      Hunger

  • NonfictionNonfiction

    • Gary Fincke
      After the Three-Moon Era
    • Lia Greenwell
      You Are Here
    • Robert Marshall
      AWP
    • Chloe Garcia Roberts
      Coyóte
    • Sejal Shah
      Even If You Can’t See It: Invisible Disability and Neurodiversity

  • PoetryPoetry

    • Andy Eaton
      Looking at Ansel Adams’s Photographs of the Manzanar Internment Camp
    • Jasminne Mendez
      To El Hombre Dominicano Who Told Me It Was Not My Place to Write about Dominican/Haitian Relations
    • Maureen Thorson
      Three Poems

  • Mixed GenreMixed Genre

    • Beth H. Piatote
      Feast (triptych)

• Nov/Dec 2018

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  • FictionFiction

    • Rose Lambert-Sluder
      Patience
    • Mark Mayer
      Twin
    • Clarence Harlan Orsi
      Not Here to Make Friends
    • Olivia Postelli
      Thoughts on Flight
    • Hillary Stringer
      Pillars of Creation

  • NonfictionNonfiction

    • Lisa Ellison
      Half-Life
    • Jared Lemus
      A Sort-of-True, but Mainly Not, Origin and Love Story
    • Kanan Makiya
      The Dying Lion

  • PoetryPoetry

    • Mark Conway
      cult rivers of the interior
    • David Freeman
      Survivor Looks at Leda and the Swan; Survivor
    • Natasha Oladokun
      “Let my anger be the celebration we were never / supposed to have.”; Living on a Ghost Plantation / Love Poem
    • Anuradha Vijayakrishnan
      At the burning ghats
    • Caki Wilkinson
      Jocks

• Sept/Oct 2018

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  • PoetryPoetry

    • Rachel Abramowitz
      The Orange
    • Kyce Bello
      Our Names Unfurl Across Winter; For the Record
    • Katie Berta
      Eurydice
    • Sergio Loo translated by Will Stockton
      Cabellitos Crash Headfirst into the Wall
    • Yun Wang
      Two Poems of Su Dong-Po

  • NonfictionNonfiction

    • Linda Rui Feng
      Dispatches from the Air Hockey Hall of Fame
    • Jason Sepac
      Let Me Show You Some Pictures
    • Patricia Vigderman
      City of Losses

  • DramaDrama

    • Clarinda Ross
      Love, M.

  • FictionFiction

    • Rachel Ann Brickner
      From Where We Rush Forth
    • Mary Crawford
      Dumbass
    • Franz Nicolay
      Non Fui, Fui, Non Sum, Non Curo

  • Imagine: Yemen Three Short PlaysImagine: Yemen Three Short Plays

    • Ismail Khalidi
      Push/Pull
    • Karen Malpede
      Dinner During Yemen
    • Naomi F. Wallace
      The Book of Mima

• July/Aug 2018

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  • PoetryPoetry

    • Meena Alexander
      Parts of the Day; Sister
    • Saddiq Dzukogi
      A House That Does Bad Things to Me
    • Amit Majmudar
      Regeneration
    • Matthew Moser Miller
      Man-Made
    • Daniel Poppick
      Dumpster

  • NonfictionNonfiction

    • Nell Boeschenstein
      Lost Colonies
    • Soowhan Lah
      The Orangutan Is Forgotten
    • Amy Marsh
      The Old Woman in the Bus Next Door

  • FictionFiction

    • Rowan Beaird
      Zugunruhe
    • Jorge Luis Castillo Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
      The Visit
    • Margaret Grant
      Arrieta 410
    • Ben Loory
      The Friend With the Knife in His Back
    • Carrie Messenger
      Love Charm
    • Peter Orner
      Fowler’s Lake
    • Joanna Pearson
      Romantics