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Issue 8.1 / January 2022

Letter From the Co-Editor

Rosanna Gargiulo

 

Photographs by Aaron Burden

I wanted immunity, kindness, the forgiveness of millions—
and one half hour of prime American time each week.

I Loved Lucy

Maureen Seaton
Poetry

In fiction, mothers often get taken for granted. Literature, like the blues, is a refuge for those with tattered souls, uneasy hearts, and woeful sighs.

The Half-Life of Human Memory

Adrian S. Potter
Fiction

And last-minute plans! How could I have forgotten the delight of last-minute plans? It’s so nice out today! Want to go to the beach? Pick you up in twenty.

A Catalog of Forgotten Joys

Rebecca Turkewitz
Nonfiction

The Maine Review’s Author Interview Series

Radicle: The Roots of Writers

featuring Fred D’Aguiar

Discover the breakthrough moments of award-winning writer Fred D’Aguiar, author of YEAR OF PLAGUES: A MEMOIR OF 2020, published by HarperCollins in 2021. With Interviewer Shanta Lee Gander, D’Aguiar discusses reckoning with history as a prerequisite for embracing future optimism.

Following the interview, read and listen to new work from D’Aguiar: a poem dedicated to his late friend and fellow poet, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze.

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