An Excerpt from Litany for the Long Moment

Mary-Kim Arnold

 

MARY-KIM ARNOLD is the author of Litany for the Long Moment, winner of 2016 Essay Press Open Book Prize. A multidisciplinary artist, writer, and teacher, her work has appeared in a number of literary and art journals, including Tin HouseThe Georgia Review, and Hyperallergic. She has received fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts and the Rhode Island Foundation. She holds graduate degrees from Vermont College of Fine Arts and Brown University, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program. She was born in Seoul, South Korea, and lives in Rhode Island.

 
 

Fiction

Women and Children | E.G. Cunningham
Magic Tattoos | Rosanna Durst
Premonitions of a Valley Girl | Cat Ingrid Leeches
In 1953, the Inuit Told Us of Nanuq | John Patrick McShea
Vaseline and Cherry Blossom Petals | R. Cross

Poetry

Recuperation | Kayla Krut
Ember | Caitlin Scarano
2 Poems | Bojan Louis
Solstice | Gerry LaFemina
3 Poems | Jen Town
2 Poems | Matthew Dickman
2 Poems | Meg Freitag
Close-Up Magic | H.R. Webster
Mercury Topaz | Mike Soto
Knot or Very | Nathan Wade Carter
Definite Article | Brandon Amica

 
 

Nonfiction

Gravidarum | Michael Levan
I Am Not A Modern Woman | Kelly Dulaney
The Culinary Lessons of a Person Without Needs | Melanie Hoffert
Notes from the Split-Level | M.W. Jones
To the Grocery Clerk Whose Name Tag Read Alice: | Alex Myers

Hybridity

7 Pieces | C.J. Moll
Our Menu Options Have Changed | David Sheskin
3 Photo-Poems | Alex Sarrigeorgiou
3 Pieces | Marchelo Vera
An Excerpt from Litany for the Long Moment | Mary-Kim Arnold

Features

An Interview with Matthew Dickman | Corey Oglesby, Editor-in-Chief
6 Questions for Bojan Louis | Fugue Staff
A Cozy Chat with Colson Whitehead | Caitlin Palmer, Fiction Editor
An Interview with Mary-Kim Arnold | Lauren Westerfield, Nonfiction Editor