Issue 19:1

 

Literary Matters 19.1

(Fall, 2026)

Editor’s Note:

Emily Grace: On Sousa, Technology, and Creation

Essay / Poem

Yulia Ryzhik: Spenser and the Choir of Frogs

Poetry

James Appleby: Attract
James Appleby: Teflon
Chris Childers: Mirror, Mirror
Amber Graci: Villanelle
Thomas Mixon: Dress Rehearsal
Medha Singh: A Boy, Running
Medha Singh: Alien Configuration
Medha Singh: The Well

Translations

Cameron Clark: Lamarck (translation of Osip Mandelstam, from the Russian)
Daniel Janeiro: Insomnia. Homer. (translation of Osip Mandelstam, from the Russian)
Sean Mansell: The Lord of the Island (translation of Stefan George, from the German)
Jay Rogoff: The Dream of the Rood (from Old English)
Jay Rogoff: The Wanderer (from Old English)

Reviews

Chad Abushanab: On Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems by Larry Levis
Zara Raab: The Soft Black Stars Review
Tanner Stening: Recklessness in memoriam: A Review of Dean Young’s Creature Feature

Interview

Matthew Buckley Smith: Smash Car: A Conversation with JP Gritton about the “Wonder Boy” Story Cycle

Poetry

Elijah Perseus Blumov: Freud Dreams of Egypt
Coleman Glenn: The Self-Deceived
Daniel Janeiro: Cain
Toby Martinez de las Rivas: Paratactic Psalm
Shane McCrae: from Kushim i. I could have come here years ago…
Shane McCrae: from Kushim ii. If no one’s anywhere…
Shane McCrae: from Kushim xi. Kushim Perhaps the First Recorded Human Name
Mary Meriam: Orpheus in the Underworld
J. C. Scharl: There Must Have Been Some Flower of Eden

Essay

Jonathan Wanner: George Herbert’s Chiastic Logic

Translations

Geoffrey Brock: Separation (translation of Vivian Lamarque, from the Italian)
Geoffrey Brock: The Youth (translation of Umberto Saba, from the Italian)
Chris Childers: Elegy 1.1 (translation of Tibullus, from the Latin)
Chris Childers: The Chorus of the Dead in the Studio of Frederick Ruysch (translation of Giacomo Leopardi, from the Italian)
Alex Fowler: Excerpt from Descriptio Sanctae Sophia (translation of Paulus Silentiarius, from the Greek)

Reviews

Marco Antolin: Eternidades / Eternities Review
Sophia Guiduci: New Growths on an Old Tree

Poetry

Morri Creech: The Ghosts of Noise

Images and Words:On the Power of Movies as Popular Poetry

Ethan McGuire: All Before Them: Terrence Malick’s Poetic New Worlds