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Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi reads “i once was a witch”
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, author of Disintegration Made Plain and Easy and The Book of Kane and Margaret, reads his new poem “i once was a witch” appearing in the fall 2021 issue of Your Impossible Voice.
Tamiko Dooley reads “Rebirth”
Tamiko Dooley reads her new poem “Rebirth” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #25.
Marko Miletich reads an excerpt from “Solution”
Marko Miletich, PhD reads an excerpt from his translation of “Solution” by Linda Morales Caballero appearing in Your Impossible Voice #25.
A Bilingual Reading of “Epigenetics”
A bilingual reading of “Epigentics” by Diti Ronen and Joanna Chen. You can read “Epigenetics” in Your Impossible Voice #25.
New from Carlo Matos: We Prefer the Damned
With his 11th book, We Prefer The Damned, Carlo Matos explores bisexual identity, relationships, erasure, and denial. Through this collection, Matos — a former MMA fighter — embraces past and present, old self and new self, while giving voice to the complexities of the bi+/pan/poly experience.
Kevin McIlvoy reads “Thralls”
Kevin McIlvoy, author of One Kind Favor, reads his poem “Thralls” from Your Impossible Voice #25
Scott Belluz Discusses a “Father Tongue” in The Italian Review
Translator and countertenor Scott Belluz discusses the possibility of having a father tongue while writing in his mother tongue in The Italian Review.
Shin Yu Pai reads “marble chunk” and “shelf life”
Shin Yu Pai, author of Virga and Sightings, reads “marble chunk” and “shelf life” from Your Impossible Voice #25.
Brian Henry reads “Mine” and “Catastrophic”
Poet and translator Brian Henry reads “Mine” and “Catastrophic,” two new poems appearing in Your Impossible Voice #25.
Andrea Abi-Karam Wants to Dance in the Ruins of Capitalism
Zeyn Joukhadar interviews Andrea Abi-Karam in Them. “In the punk poet-performer’s latest collection, they explore the role of poetry in the fight against white supremacy and late-stage capitalism.”
Gillian Parrish reads an excerpt from “Weatherman”
Gillian Parrish reads an excerpt from her short story “Weatherman,” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #25.
Issue 25 | Fall 2021
Your Impossible Voice #25 opens with a story of love, loneliness, and DJs in Argentina, and closes with wayward Taco Bell bandits loose in the Buckeye state. In between, it delivers new short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction exploring anaphylactic reactions to dust, languages that sound like bonfire flames, dollar-store groceries, golden molars and nectars, witchy weather apps, migraines, matricide, and so much more.
Contributors include Cecilia Pavón and Jacob Steinberg, Robert Lopez, Shin Yu Pai, Brian Henry, Daryll Delgado, Linda Morales Caballero and Marko Miletich, PhD, Caroline Fernelius, Emilee Prado, Robert(a) Ruisza Marshall, Khalil AbuSharekh, Mercury-Marvin Sunderland, Gillian Parrish, Steve Bargdill, Diti Ronen and Joanna Chen, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Kevin McIlvoy, Adhimas Prasetyo and Liswindio Apendicaesar, and Tamiko Dooley. Cover art by Despy Boutris.
Contributor News: An Interview with Andrea Abi-Karam in Literary Hub
Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel reflect on political radicalism, inventive aesthetics, and the publication of their anthology We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics.
Contributor News: Colin Dodds launches Forget This Good Thing I Just Said
What’s going on? What do you need to hear? How can you move forward?
Finding an answer may be as simple as swiping left or right. Forget This Good Thing I Just Said is a new experience, based on an old kind of book – the collection of short sayings, or aphorisms.
Contributor News: 13 Ways of Looking, with Susan Daitch in Pioneer Works
Visual inspirations behind Susan Daitch’s Siege of Comedians, a triptych of interconnected stories on exile, migration, crime scenes, and inventing language.
Contributor News: Abeer Hoque in Alien Nation
Alien Nation collects 36 extraordinary stories originally told on stage by writers, entertainers, thinkers, and community leaders, including frequent YIV contributor Abeer Hoque.
Contributor News: Lampblack by Thaddeus Rutowski in Carousel Magazine
I saw that my father had bought a kerosene lamp — I guessed he would use it when our electricity went out. I knew that he liked old-fashioned things and might find its antique shape and dim glow comforting. Moreover, he had no income — my mother worked at a hospital job — so he would appreciate the savings in electricity. He burned the lamp in the kitchen at night while he drank. I imagined the lamp was still glowing when he fell asleep at the table.
Contributor News: New Work from Darren C. Demaree in Cult of Clio
We can shake the spray
as much as we want,
but if she wasn’t filled
with all those colors
with all that turning
New from Andrea Abi-Karam: Villainy
Andrea Abi-Karam answers the call to action for poetry itself to become the radical accomplice it was destined to be in their second book, Villainy. In order to live through the grief of the Ghost Ship Fire and the Muslim Ban, Villainy foments political action in public spaces, and indexes the various emotional states, such as rage, revelry, fear, grief, and desire to which queers must tend during protest.
New from Casey Plett: A Dream of a Woman
Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women. Casey Plett’s 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love.