Current Issue
Issue 7.3 / September 2021
Letter from the Editor
Rosanna Gargiulo
Photographs by Omid Armin
The Maine Review’s author interview series
Radicle: The Roots of Writers
featuring Kerri Arsenault
Discover the breakthrough moments of award-winning writer Kerri Arsenault, author of MILL TOWN: RECKONING WITH WHAT REMAINS, released September 2020 and now available in paperback. With Editor Rosanna Gargiulo, Arsenault discusses the ten-year writing project that became her first book, and the love (and hate) that spurred her on.
Following the interview, read Arsenault’s first published essay, which evolved into a chapter in her book.
Photograph by Erik Madigan Heck
Poetry
sleeping bags
Cecil Choi
Child Poetica
Jefferson Navicky
YMCA
Jane Zwart
on a list of games that buddha would not play, one is [that he abstains from robbery]
Stella Wong
#to a passer-by
V. B. Borjen
She
Isabelle Walker
September
Anna Zumbahlen
The apple tree
Emily Hockaday
Roost
Alejandro Lemus-Gomez
Machine
Hannah Larrabee
Pier 60
Michael Dechane
Orhionmwon
Praise Osawaru
White Gladiolas in an Unused Jar
Lisa Higgs
Nonfiction
Why I Break Stuff
Mark Osteen
Ten Griefs, Ten Breaths
Anne-Marie Oomen
A Matter of Opinion
Anju Sharma
Texting My Dead Dad
Devon Capizzi
Recovery from Simultaneous Stroke and Cardiac Arrest
Amanda Gardner
West End Girl
Penny Jackson
Waitressing and the Cosmos
Claire Kortyna
Fiction
Jack Pine
Dawn Miller
Mofe
Mustapha Enesi
flyBaby
Chad Gusler
Growth Hacking
Julie Zuckerman
The Sea Beyond
Kevin Mc Dermott
The Universe
Julie Labuszewski
Omid Armin is a photographer and videographer based in Tehran, Iran.
“I started out as a photographer with the urge for storytelling, to give people new perspectives and ways of seeing the simple and different.”
~ Omid Armin
