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Issue 27 | Fall 2022

Nov 1, 2022

Issue twenty-seven invites you to a chimeric gathering of wanders, misfits, rebels, playboys, and survivors.

Featuring entrancing new short fiction, poetry, CNF, translations, and art from Robert Glück, Julia Kohli (translated by Rob Myatt), Jasleena Grewal, Solomon Samson, Dominic Blewett, Laurie Stone, Stacey Levine, Nina Schuyler, James Warner, Carla Bessa (translated by Elton Uliana), Alvin Lu, Lorelei Bacht, Beatriz Rocha (translated by Grant Schutzman), Réka Nyitrai, David C. Hall, Rolla Barraq (translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp), Eva-Maria Sher, Cameron Morse, and Richard Hanus.

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Mistake or Accident

Oct 31, 2022

Laurie Stone

“I gave a man I loved a mug, a silk shirt, and a copy of Baudelaire. In time he became better at sex. After he left me, I saw him at a memorial service and wondered if he still had the shirt, the mug, the copy of Baudelaire.”

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Our Pushcart Nominations for 2018

Nov 29, 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...

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Laurie Stone reads “Sunglasses”

Jun 25, 2018

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...

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Issue 17 | Spring 2018

May 21, 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

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Sunglasses

May 19, 2018

By Laurie Stone

I was walking in a forest along a leaf-strewn path. The moon glowed yellow, and I could see my outline. I was seeing myself from the perspective of the moon.

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases”

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