Michelle Mirabella reads her translation of John Better Armella’s “Kafka Knocks at the Door” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #23.
Michelle Mirabella reads “Kafka Knocks at the Door”
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Issue 23 | Fall 2020
Issue 23 of Your Impossible Voice features work by Casey Plett, Masha Tupitsyn, Jorge Largo (translated by David Pegg), Alexia Nader, Deven James Philbrick, Luciano Funetta (translated by Scott Belluz), Hwang Jungeun (translated by Mirae Yang), Dan A. Cardoza, Kelly Krumrie, Julieta García González (translated by Toshiya Kamei), Mialise Carney, John Better Armella (translated by Michelle Mirabella), Chuck Mobley, Kenny Williams, Steven Seidenberg, Genevieve Kaplan, gigi bella, Maggie Blake Bailey, Charlotte Pence, and alyssa hanna. Cover art by Joe Lugara.
Our Pushcart Nominations for 2018
Your Impossible Voice is thrilled to announce this year’s nominations for the Pushcart Prize."The Rapist’s Dog" by Sara Kachelman (Your Impossible Voice #16, Winter 2018)"In the Garden of Earthly Delights," by Luisa A. Igloria (Your Impossible Voice #16, Winter...
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
The Brevity of Cigarettes
By John Better Armella
Translated by George Bert Henson
Whether it’s a transvestite taking a drag on her damp Pielroja on some corner of barrio Santa Fe, a middle manager asking with feigned dignity, “Marlboro, please,” or a precocious little girl smoking her punk brother’s butts in secret, cigarettes possess the brevity necessary to tell a story, not in the style of Jim Jarmusch, where they accompany an espresso, and the black-and-white screen accentuates a bitter encounter between Tom Waits and Iggy Pop.