Past Issue

Issue 7.2 / May 2021

Letter from the Editor

Rosanna Gargiulo

“But what’s with the white dress?” A woman dressed in mourning black beside her retorted. Laughter.
A man behind Maria hollered, “Red, she should be wearing red.”

Lucinda’s Bouquet

Carmelinda Scian

Nonfiction

You say I have an “oh, honey” voice when I talk to men. You ask me if I need your help opening a jar. With a knife, I show you how to release the air pressure that keeps the jar sealed.

A dirge for a sound long unheard

Neeru Nagarajan

Fiction

& Lord,

the abundance of our fallen.

This Country Keeps Unearthing Grief from Me

Samuel A. Adeyemi

Poetry

Introducing The Maine Review’s author interview series

Discover the breakthrough moments of award-winning poet and writer Hala Alyan, author of SALT HOUSES and THE ARSONISTS’ CITY, released March 2021. With interviewer Basmah Sakrani, Alyan discusses the inspiration for her recent work and shares her first publication experience.

Past Issue

Issue 7.2 / May 2021

Letter from the Editor

Radicle: The Roots of Writers

with Hala Alyan

Nonfiction

Giddy

Lucinda’s Bouquet

What Fills the Spaces

The Anatomy of Loss

Blessing of the Throats

Play Pretend

An Apology, from a Daughter of Mormon Pioneers

Perfect for the Small Family

Fiction

The Night Watch

Jenna Heller

A dirge for a sound long unheard

Broken Pool Noodle

Blackbird

My Name is Reaškkas

Poetry

Nero All the Way Down

Fuck Soldiering On

How it Burned

This Country Keeps Unearthing Grief from Me

O Madonna

Pastoral With Seven Kinds of No

Sixteen

Rue Paul Valéry

Lodged beside my left ventricle, a little village on a blue volcano ringed with red clay paths

What the trees see to

On the Garden Pond, in Boston

Dear John Ashbery

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