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Issue 32 | Spring 2025
Your Impossible Voice #32 is fanning the flames of righteousness as we teeter toward a smoke-crazed horizon. We are tracing the minutia of generations through room-sized replicas and reenactments. We are drying laundry on a patchwork of metal sheets. We are back on campus, on the prowl, clawing at mattresses, chasing ghosts and radiance, plagued by absentia. Above all, we are secure in our knowledge that every fact reigns absolute, even its opposite.
Featuring new work from Vincenzo della Malva, Molara Wood, Khalil AbuSharekh, Ian MacClayn, Karen An-hwei Lee, Austin Adams, Eric T. Racher, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan, Steve Barbaro, Kirsten Kaschock, Mark J. Mitchell, Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, DS Maolalai, and Cliff Tisdell.
Mooring
By Kirsten Kaschock
“You are living and I keep you in one still piece alive.
On the ice, everything held quiet, and after—
marks from knives we wore on our feet.”
Untitled (Phrenology Box)
By Kirsten Kaschock
Maybe even the galaxy is holistic.
Then there’s the split between
beauty and reality. There’s the fault line
dividing them and threads that traverse it.
Issue 31 | Fall 2024
Your Impossible Voice #31 finds the doomsday clock ticking twenty days from the apocalypse. It’s chock-full of liars, the lost, and the lonely floating in fog and hungry for cake, eggs, and kink. All that plus Allen Ginsberg, Frida Kahlo, and a magnificent tower of giraffes.
Featuring work by Joshua Escobar, Adelheid Duvanel (translated by Tyler Schroeder), Tanya Žilinskas, Sumitra Singam, Jean-Luc Raharimanana (translated by Tom Tulloh), Arlene Tribbia, Addison Zeller, Mehdi M. Kashani, Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer, Jane Snyder, Charles O. Smith, Taro Williams, Joanna Theiss, Kirsten Kaschock, Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz, Steve Castro, Linda Wojtowick, and Ann Pedone.
Contributor News: Kirsten Kaschock
Kirsten Kaschock (“To Throw, Fling, Hurl, or Toss,” Issue 4)has a new book of poetry outfrom the University of Pittsburgh Press titledThe Dotterywhich won The Donald Hall Prize for Poetryfrom the Association of Writers and Writing Programs last year.She will also be...
Issue 4 | Summer 2014
With the summer heat just around the corner, Your Impossible Voice #4 is here to refresh and delight! Our latest issue brings new work from Fulbright Foundation fellow R. Zamora Linmark, National Endowment for the Arts fellow Geraldine Connolly, Norma Farber First Book Award winner Karen An-hwei Lee, Donald Hall Prize winner Kirsten Kaschock, David Bajo, Chris Yamashita, Racquel Goodison, Michael du Plessis, Sven Hansen-Löve, John Beckman, Christopher Kondrich, Sammy Greenspan, Peter Burzynski, Bryce Emley, Monica Macansantos, Sierra-Nicole Qualles. Cover art by Jason Trbovich.