Fjords is keeping the shine on our cutting edge literature by publishing Denmark's pre-meeminent postmodernist writer Josefine Klougart translated by Alexander Weinstein. Five first time English prose pieces translated by Alexander Weinstein will appear alongside the original Danish. We keep the eye engaged by focusing on portraiture with nine different fine contemporary portrait masters including Kehinde Wiley, Susan Makara, Margaret Bowland, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Cobi Moules, Lita Cabellut, Tun Ping Wang, Sharon Matisoff and Gaele Erwin. The prose of Nate Liederbach and Shivani Meta complement our poetry feature Ronald Wardall (1937-2006) and work by Crow Billings, Jessica Dawn Zinz, Tara Mae Mulroy and others. A short by Phillip Neel and another by Phillip Kobylarz are the short story selections for our fall issue.
Prose
Habits of Destination
Loopholes
by Nate Leiderbach
About Nate Leiderbach
Nate Liederbach is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. His work has most recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Dark Sky, Denver Quarterly, Euphony, LA Review, and Phantom Drift. He splits his time between Salt Lake City and Eugene, OR.
The Collector
Anonymity
The Visitors
by Shivani Mehta
About Shivani Mehta
Shivani Mehta was born in India and grew up in Singapore. She moved to New York to attend college and subsequently, law school. A recovering attorney, she is the accomplished mother of twenty-month old twins who, fortunately, sleep long enough to allow her to write prose poems. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, children, dog, two cats and several fish. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Mudfish Magazine, the Prose Poem Project, The Coachella Review, The Normal School, Hotel Amerika and Generations Literary Journal, among others. One of her poems was a winner in Narrative Magazine's annual poetry contest in 2011.
Poetry in Translation
21st Century Danish Poet Josefine Klougart
About Josefine Klougart/h4>
Josefine Klougart has been described as "Scandinavia's own Virginia Woolf", and "one of the most important writers not only of her generation but of her time." She has received the royal prize for culture 2012 and has at the age of 27 been nominated twice for The Nordic Councils Price for Literature. Klougart has studied art- and literature at the University and is the editor of Denmark's most prestigious literary journal The Blue Gate. She has recently written the preface for the new edition of Virginia Woolf's classic, Mrs. Dalloway. In Danish.
I Count Thirty-Four Bruises
Copenhagen
The Cold Sings in the Viaducts
The Light Comes Creeping
My Older Sister Tells Me
translated by Alexander Weinstein
About Alexander Weinstein
Alexander Weinstein is the Director of The Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and works as a professor of Creative Writing at Siena Heights University. He leads fiction workshops in the United States and Europe and lives in Ann Arbor. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Cream City Review, Sou'Wester, Notre-Dame Review, PRISM International, Rio Grande Review, and other journals.
Poetry
Philomela
by Tara Mae Mulroy
About Tara Mae Mulroy
A former Managing Editor of The Pinch, Tara Mae Mulroy received an MFA in Poetry at the University of Memphis. Her work is published or forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Crab Creek Review, PANK and others. Her blog can be found at taramaemulroy.wordpress.com.
Delay
Tips About the Buttocks and Brain
by Marks Taksa
About Marks Taksa
At an early age, Mark Taksa became a ward of the state and was placed in several public institutions for children. He lived on his own while in high school. He earned a Master's Degree in English (Creative Writing) from San Francisco State University. He taught high school for thirty years. He lives in Albany, California—not far from Berkeley's gourmet ghetto. He believes that the source of happiness is the family.
His chapbooks: The Invention of Love (March Street Press, 2010), Love Among The Antiquarians (Pudding House, 2010), The Torah At The End Of The Train (first place in the 2009 Poetica Magazine chapbook contest), The Biography Thief (Pudding House, 2007), The Future As An Act Of The Scissor (Pudding House, 2005), The Root (Pavement Saw Press, 2002), Choice At The Blossom Café (March Street Press, 2002), The End Of Soup Kitchens (Pudding House, 2002), Cradlesong (1993 winner of Pudding House's National Looking Glass Poetry Chapbook Competition and published in 1994) and Truant Bather (The Berkeley Poets Workshop and Press, 1986).
Beulah
by Sarah Pennington
About Sarah Pennington
Sarah Pennington is a doctoral student in the Humanities program at the University of Louisville.
Beseiged
Sleepwear
by Rachel Barenblat
About Rachel Barenblat
Rachel Barenblat holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is author of four poetry chapbooks as well as 70 faces (Phoenicia, 2011), a collection of Torah poems. Since 2003 she has blogged as The Velveteen Rabbi. In 2011, she was ordained a rabbi by ALEPH: the Alliance for Jewish Renewal, and now serves a small congregation in western Massachusetts where she lives with her husband and son.
Counting Sparrows
After the Fall
Troy
by Rebecca Volpe
About Rebecca Volpe
Rebecca Volpe was born in New York City. She graduated from NYU in 2010 with a degree in history. She is currently enrolled in Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina where she is receiving her M.F.A. in Poetry.
Funeral for Touch
Jessie and the Dear After Salley Man
by Jessica Dawn Zinz
About Jessica Dawn Zinz
Jessica Dawn Zinz is the poetry editor for Mid-American Review. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University. She currently teaches writing at BGSU. More of her recent work is forthcoming in Rubbertop Review and Licking River Review.
Song for Sonneteers and Spies
Dim Stars (with lines borrowed from Keats)
by Ronald Hayes
What We Scarcely Know
The Uprooting
by Ronnie Hess
About Ronnie Hess
Ronnie Hess' writing has appeared in national and regional newspapers and magazines. Her poetry has been featured in Alimentum, Poetica (including the Mizmor L'David Anthology, 2010), the Wisconsin Academy's People and Ideas Magazine and Verse Wisconsin, among other journals. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Whole Cloth (Little Eagle Press, 2009) and a culinary travel guide, Eat Smart in France (Gingko Press, November 2010). She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Ode
Enthusiastic Letters
by Michael Salcman
About Michael Salcman
Michael Salcman, poet, neuroscientist and art historian, was born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia and came to the United States in 1949. He attended the combined program in liberal arts and medical education at Boston University, was a fellow in neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health and trained in neurosurgery at Columbia University. Former chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and past president of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, he is the author of almost 200 scientific and medical papers and six medical and scientific textbooks translated into Spanish, German, Portuguese and Chinese. As Special Lecturer at the Osher Institute of Towson University, Salcman lectures widely on art and the brain, including his course How The Brain Works on the Knowledge Network of the New York Times. His poems appear in such journals as Alaska Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Hopkins Review, New Letters, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Ontario Review, Poet Lore and Raritan, and have received six nominations for a Pushcart Prize. His work has been heard on NPR's All Things Considered and in Euphoria (2008), a documentary film on the brain and creativity. He has given readings at the Library of Congress, the Pratt Library of Baltimore, The Academy of Medicine in Atlanta, The Writers Center in Bethesda, the Bowery Poetry Club and the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York. Author of four poetry chapbooks and two collections, The Clock Made of Confetti (Orchises Press, 2007), nominated for The Poet's Prize and a Finalist for the Towson University Prize in Literature, and The Enemy of Good Is Better (Orchises, 2011), his anthology of classic and contemporary poems on doctors and diseases is forthcoming.
Life Street
by Tim Suermondt
About Tim Suermondt
Tim Suermondt is the author of Trying to Help the Elephant Man Dance (The Backwaters Press, 2007) and Just Beautiful from NYQ Books, 2010. He has published works in Poetry, The Georgia Review, Blackbird, Able Muse, Prairie Schooner, Bellevue Literary Review, Stand Magazine (U.K.) and has poems forthcoming in The James Dickey Review, Gargoyle and Hamilton Stone Review among others. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.
Spencer Teaches My
Daughter How to Kill
by Jeff Tigchelaar
About Jeff Tigchelaar
Jeff Tigchelaar's poems appear or impend in Best New Poets 2011, Court Green, Flyway, Grist, Harpur Palate, Hunger Mountain Online, North American Review, Southeast Review, Tar River Poetry and Versedaily.com.
School in the Days of Fallout
From the Telemarketer's Journals
by Crow Bilings
About Crow Bilings
Crow Billings' work has appeared in Skidrow Penthouse and Fence. He is a professional musician, an animal rights activist and is an Associate Editor at Rain Mountain Press.
Boats in Stasis
Ajar
by Nancy Carol Moody
About Nancy Carol Moody
Nancy Carol Moody's work has appeared in Salamander, The New York Quarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, The Carolina Quarterly and The Los Angeles Review. She is the author of Photograph With Girls (Traprock Books) and has just completed a new manuscript titled Negative Space. Nancy lives in Eugene, Oregon, and can be found online at nancycarolmoody.com.
The Last Night of the Year
by Carol Carpenter
About Carol Carpenter
Carol Carpenter's poems and stories have appeared in numerous online and print publications, including: Margie, Snake Nation Review, Neon, Georgetown Review, Barnwood International Poetry Mag, Orbis and various anthologies, the most recent are Not What I Expected (Paycock Press) and Wild Things (Outrider Press). Her work has been exhibited by art galleries and produced as podcasts (Connecticut Review and Bound Off). She received the Hart Crane Memorial Award, the Jean Siegel Pearson Poetry Award, Artists Among Us Award and others. Formerly a college writing instructor, journalist and trainer, she now devotes her time to writing in Livonia, MI.
Short Story
Our Lady of the Guard
by Philip Kobylarz
Adumbrations
by Phillip Neel
Art
Portrait Masters
Love Gloves
by Gaela Erwin
French Radical Fashion IX in 1789
by Carlos Gomez de Francisco
Leslie's Long Stockings
by Susan Makara
About Susan Makara
Art is a lifelong passion of Susan Makara. Immediately after graduation from Virginia Commonwealth University she took a job as Assistant Art Director at Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington DC. It did not take long for Makara to realize she needed to follow her own vision. She started her own Stained Glass and Painting studio in Colorado, eventually moving the studio to Northern Virginia. Susan Makara currently has a studio at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria where she has been honored as Artist of the Year 2012.
Secret Behind the Veil 25
by Lita Cabellut
Another Thorny Crown III
by Margaret Bowland
Vague
by Tun Ping Wang
Self Portrait
by Sharon Matisoff
Golden Paisley
by Kehinde Wiley
Self Portrait 6
by Cobi Moules
Art Review
Housemaid
by Kayti Doolittle
About Kayti Doolitle
Kayti Doolitle graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and a minor in Creative Writing. She is the Art and Film Reviewer for Fjords Review. Kayti is writing an anthology of essays about the sex industry in countries around the world, while living in South Korea.
Home Within Home
by Kayti Doolittle
About Kayti Doolitle
Kayti Doolitle graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and a minor in Creative Writing. She is the Art and Film Reviewer for Fjords Review. Kayti is writing an anthology of essays about the sex industry in countries around the world, while living in South Korea.
Book Review
China's Lost Decade, Cultural Politics & Poetics 1978-1990, in Place of History
by Christina Francine
About Christina Francine
Christina Francine has published children's stories, articles and interviews. She has reviewed over 250 books in various genres for many publications. She has a knack for making complex technical writing simple and is an enthusiastic NY State educator. Her web-site: ChristinaFrancine.wordpress.com
Complete Fragments
by Christina Francine
About Christina Francine
Christina Francine has published children's stories, articles and interviews. She has reviewed over 250 books in various genres for many publications. She has a knack for making complex technical writing simple and is an enthusiastic NY State educator. Her web-site: ChristinaFrancine.wordpress.com
Eve Asks
by Christina Francine
About Christina Francine
Christina Francine has published children's stories, articles and interviews. She has reviewed over 250 books in various genres for many publications. She has a knack for making complex technical writing simple and is an enthusiastic NY State educator. Her web-site: ChristinaFrancine.wordpress.com