37.1 Winter/Spring 2025

The 2024 Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry

• "Talking Drums" by Hussain Ahmed

The 2024 Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction

• "Before You Dance" by Michelle Ajodah

The 2024 Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction

• "Qualifying Exams" by Elda María Román

Fiction

• • "Arrows" by Jen Julian
  • "Happiness" by Marcelo Lillo TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY NATALIA BAIZÁN DE ALDECOA AND MANUEL ANTONIO CORDÓBA
  • "SUMP" by Mike Nees
  • "Terminal" by Phoebe Baker Hyde
  • "Detachment" by Brittany Perham

  Nonfiction

  • Lightweight" by Rebecca Swanberg
  • "Two Truths and a Lie" by David LeGault
  • "Wild Horses" by Zoë Malia Ozoa Loos
  • "AWKWARDNESS" and "CRAVING" by Sandra Simonds

  Poetry

  • "Canon" and "Dry Mouth" by Matthew Gellman
  • "Crossing Bainbridge Ferry" by Xiaoqiu Qiu
  • "at the grocery store, fainting in" by Sydney Mayes
  • " JAGADAKEER: IN REMISSION" by Lory Bedikian
  • "Chekov" by Lucy Silbaugh
  • "Gossip" by Karisma Price
  • "my forgotten name / soil-lickers" by Claire Zhou
  • "Let Me Try a Song" by Alejandro Lucero
  • "Study on Voicing" by Alexa Luborsky
  • "The Barely Known" by Sasha Burshteyn
  • "Sketchbook 1936" and " Flysch (Pais Vasco)" by Stefania Gomez
  • "The Desert" and "The Moon Is a Location" by Coleman Edward Dues
  • "Confessional" by Madeline Augusta Turner
  • "After Dissent" and "PET" by Jhani Randhawa
  • "12Mg :: {like :: ChlorophyllThat's} My Girl {Makes the world}" by Rosebud Ben-Oni
  • "Resemblance" by Owen Torrey
  • "Abecedary Left Dangling by the Right" by Lynne Thompson
  • "Tree of Knowledge, No. 7a" by Victoria Chang
  • "My Lover Thought I’d Make Good Farmland, But Mapped Me Upside Down" by Chloe Hollowell Hooks
  • "Host" by Sarah Carriger
  • "My Father Reaches Out to Me in His Sleep, Dreaming (The Hermit)" by Em Palughi
  • "A Man Remarks on the Gazelle’s Resilience" by Julie DeBoer
  • "undisturbed bedrest" by Shuzo Takiguchi TRANSLATED FROM JAPANESEBY MARY JO BANG
  • "? ? Dalian" by Stephanie Niu
  • "Dark Nights of the Soul [Syrian Civil War]" by Brian Phillip Whalen
  • "The Fact of Adjacence Suggesting Trespass" by Sati Mookherjee

  Creative and Critical Art Writing

  • The State of Art Criticism: A Conversation with Constance Collier-Mercado, Lauren Cross, Valentin Diaconov, and Raphael Rubinstein
  • On the Black Ecstatic: An Interview with Jakayla Monay and Christopher Paul by Dr. Anita N. Bateman

  Featured Art

  • Various Pieces by Jakayla Monay
  • Various Pieces by Christopher Paul

  Reviews and Interviews

  • "It Was Kind of Cynical but It Worked: A Conversation with Jack Pierson and Matthew Zipf" by Matthew Zipf
  • "Interview: A Conversation with Wei Tchou and Lily Meyer" by Wei Tchou
  • "The Ecstacy and Urgency of Friendship: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger and Rosa Boshier González" by Rosa Boshier González

  SWANA Folio Curated By Glenn Shaheen

  • Introduction by Glenn Shaheen
  • "Emergency Assurance Letter" by Peter Twal
  • "TRAINING GROUNDS" by Andrea Abi-Karam
  • "Autoconfessional in Charcoal" by George Abraham
  • "Return Ghazal" by Hala Alyan
  • "I Desire and Pose a Longstanding Threat" by Aliah Lavonne Tigh
  • "the problem with forgetting is that we remember our trauma when it happens to someone else" by Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman
  • "Of a Photo" by Carolina Ebeid
  • "(DEAR ETEL ADNAN) I DON'T THINK OF CARLY RAE JEPSEN" by Summer Farah
  • "PENANCE" by Safia Elhillo
  • "Eye-Roll Casino" by Farnoosh Fathi
  • "The Day Elvis Died" by Angie Mazakis
  • "ARCHIVE SPILLER ON PATIO" by Maya Salameh
  • "Life Hotel" by Tracy Fuad
  • "Anyway" by Jess Rizkallah
  • "THE PRISONER DREAMS OF KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN" by Yasmine Roukiaya
  • "[One More Ali/Jolly Split]" by Moheb Soliman
  • "Ancestry of Fruit and Peels" by Fariha Tayyab
  • "in mist" by Kamelya Omayma Youssef
  • "Eulogy" by Issam Zineh
  • "About the Author" by Priscilla Wathington