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July Westhale reads “On Friendship”
July Westhale reads “On Friendship” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #18.
Issue 18 | Fall 2018
Issue 18 features work by Joanna Ruocco, Miguel Barnet (translated by George Henson), Ricardo Piglia (translated by Robert Croll), Lise Gauvin (translated by Aliya Esmail), Dia Felix, Brooks Sterritt, Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada, Molly Yingling, Silver Damsen, Rob McClure Smith, Amitai ben-Abba, July Westhale, Martina Reisz, Thomas March, Adam Clay, Elizabeth Spires, and Mia Ayumi Malhotra. Cover art by Sean Casey.
Laurie Stone reads “Sunglasses”
Laurie Stone is author most recently of My Life as an Animal, Stories. She was a longtime writer for the Village Voice, theater critic for The Nation, and critic-at-large on Fresh Air. She won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book...
Geraldine Connolly reads “Cinder”
Geraldine Connolly reads "Spider" appearing in Your Impossible Voice #17. Geraldine Connolly is the author of three poetry collections, Food for the Winter, Province of Fire, and Hand of the Wind. Her new book, Aileron, will be published by Terrapin Books in 2018. Her...
Geraldine Connolly reads “Spider”
Geraldine Connolly reads "Spider" appearing in Your Impossible Voice #17. Geraldine Connolly is the author of three poetry collections, Food for the Winter, Province of Fire, and Hand of the Wind. Her new book, Aileron, will be published by Terrapin Books in 2018. Her...
Jessica Kirzane reads “Mutual Consent”
Jessica Kirzane reads her translation of "Mutual Consent," an excerpt from Diary of a Lonely Girl by Miriam Karpilov. Miriam Karpilov (1888-1956) was born in Minsk and immigrated to America in 1905, settling in New York City and in Bridgeport, CT, where several of her...
Jari Niesner reads “slim shadows”
Ulrike Almut Sandig was born in Großenhain (GDR) in 1979 and now lives with her family in Berlin. She started publishing her poetry by pasting poems onto lamp posts in Leipzig and spreading them on flyers and free post cards. After completing her Magister in Religious...
Zach Wyner reads “When I Was a Child in the 1980s”
Zach Wyner is a writer and educator who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. His debut novel, What We Never Had, was published by Rare Bird Books in 2016. He is a contributor to The Good Men Project, Curly Red Stories, Unbroken Journal,...
Issue 17 | Spring 2018
Issue 17 features work by Laurie Stone, John Better Armella (translated by George Bert Henson), Elisabeth Sheffield, M.C. Zendejas, Stephanie Dickinson, Miriam Karpilov (translated by Jessica Kirzane), Nicole Mestre, Ihsan Abdel Quddous (translated by Nabeel M. Yaseen), Michael Agugom, Jason Hamilton, Curt Saltzman, Jillian McManemin, Bob Elmendorf, Geraldine Connolly, Diego Valeri (translated by Laura Valeri), Alex Rieser, Ulrike Almut Sandig (translated by Jari Niesner), Lily Hoang, and Zach Wyner. Cover art by Jonathan Hammer
“Headless World” by Ascher/Straus continues in Exile Quarterly
Dallas Woodburn reads and discusses “How to Make Spinach-Artichoke Lasagna Three Weeks After Your Best Friend’s Funeral”
Dallas Woodburn, a former Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University, has published work in Zyzzyva, The Nashville Review, The Los Angeles Times, and Monkeybicycle, among many others. Her debut short story collection Woman, Running Late, in a...
Luisa A. Igloria reads “Zunzuncito”
Luisa A. Igloria is the winner of the 2015 Resurgence Prize (UK), the world’s first major award for ecopoetry, selected by former UK poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, Alice Oswald, and Jo Shapcott. She is the author of the chapbooks Haori (Tea & Tattered Pages...
Luisa A. Igloria reads “In the Garden of Earthly Delights,”
Luisa A. Igloria is the winner of the 2015 Resurgence Prize (UK), the world’s first major award for ecopoetry, selected by former UK poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, Alice Oswald, and Jo Shapcott. She is the author of the chapbooks Haori (Tea & Tattered Pages...
Issue 16 | Winter 2018
Featuring work by Clemens J. Setz (translated by Susan Thorne), Sara Kachelman, James Warner, Tahseen Béa, Dan Morey, Daniel Rivas, Jasper Henderson, Luise Maier (translated by Frances Jackson), Justice McPherson, Dahna Cohen-Schwartz, James Kramer, Karla Reimert (translated by Patty Nash), Marina Massenz, (translated by Johanna Bishop), Iacyr Anderson Freitas (translated by Desirée Jung), Luisa A. Igloria, Rey-Philip Genaldo, and Dallas Woodburn. Cover art by Mattina Blue.
“At the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations” by Aysegul Savas in The Paris Review
Ventriloquisms by Jaclyn Watterson is Now Available
Emily Zasada reads “Life in a Bottle”
Emily Zasada has previously had work published in Flock (formerly Fiction Fix) and Penny. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and son.
Jacob Rogers reads “Orange Dream: Story of a Dream Embedded Within Five Different Strata”
Xavier Queipo is a Galician writer based in Brussels, Belgium. He has published nearly twenty books, ranging from fiction, to poetry, to children’s literature, as well as essays. He has won several prizes for his novels, including the Spanish Critics Prize in 1991,...
Leah Mueller reads “San Francisco Heart”
Leah Mueller is an indie writer from Tacoma, WA. She is the author of two chapbooks, Queen of Dorksville (Crisis Chronicles Press) and Political Apnea (Locofo Chaps), and two books, Allergic to Everything (Writing Knights Press) and The Underside of the Snake (Red...
Martin Willitts Jr. reads “Molecules”
Martin Willitts Jr. has over 20 chapbooks including the winner of the Turtle Island Quarterly Editor’s Choice Award, The Wire Fence Holding Back the World (Flowstone Press), plus 11 full-length collections including How to Be Silent (FutureCycle Press, 2016) and Dylan...