




Welcome to Winter 2021 from our EIC: My Workspace: A Photo Essay: our Editor In Chief, Natalie Solmer shares plants, paintings, and winter thoughts in this photo essay & welcome note for the issue.

Featured Poet: Douglas Manuel talks to The Indianapolis Review about humor, revision, audience, Anderson, Indiana as a character in his book Testify, writing about race and much more. He also contributes two new poems:

Cynthia Atkins Diminution, 11am
David Dodd Lee The Geese
Sherine Gilmour Doubling Down
Phil Goldstein How I Want to Hold My Younger Self
Cameron Gorman baby baby
Patrick Holian Cameron’s holidays with rams
Marlin M. Jenkins A Glass of Milk
Jay Kophy A Poem Where Every Question is a Parable

Featured Artist: K. Johnson Bowles
Susanna Lang Long Marriage
Krysta Lee Frost No Good Man Wants to Hurt Me
Fatima Malik First Comes Friendship
DT McCrea How my father did not say goodbye

Featured Artist: Robin Frost-Bess
Roseline Mgbodichinma The Clock Is A Jealous Wand
Steve Myers Pantheon
Salawu Ọlájídé Five Decades after Wẹ-tiẹ
A. Prevett Every Bird is an Amazon Drone

Featured Artist: Catherine-Esther Cowie
Sean Selbach
found another volcano in the dirt
another note taped to my mirror
Seretha D. Williams Requiem for Lee, a Boyfriend
Felicia Williams I Wish I Could. . .
REVIEWS:

Naoko Fujimoto reflects on Minami Kobayashi’s paintings

Amanda Auchter reviews Julie E. Bloemeke’s debut collection, Slide To Unlock