The 2020s
SHR ARCHIVES    Vol 53.1 to Present

              53.1
              SPRING 2020

53.2
SUMMER 2020

53.3
FALL 2020

53.4
WINTER 2020

              54.1
              SPRING 2021

54.2
SUMMER 2021

54.3
FALL 2021
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Volume 53.1    SPRING 2020

N O N F I C T I O N
DIANE MEHTA      Invisible Woman
HEATHER CORRIGAN PHILLIPS      A Scattershot Approach

F I C T I O N
RAIMA EVAN       Woman in the Trees 
DEWAINE FARRIA      The Tap Cascade
TRUDY LEWIS       Villa Medusa 
DARA PASSANO       It Goes Well with the Rest  

P O E T R Y
CATHERINE CARTER      Lactobacilli
JULIE CHOFFEL      Eyelet
CATHERINE ESTHER COWIE      Assimilation   |  Trigger 
JANE CRAVEN        Incidental  |  An Etymology  
CALEB CURTISS       Duplex 
JANICE N. HARRINGTON       Turner Circling  |  Cuttings 
ANDREW HEMMERT       Sawgrass Sky 
CLAY MATTHEWS       Revelation in the Second Person 
ELIZABETH LINDSEY ROGERS      Notes on the State of North Carolina
MOLLY TENENBAUM       Choosing Which Dessert to Eat at a Potluck 
LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA       Facts on the Ground 
JAIME ZUCKERMAN       Regret 

C O V E R   A R T
SUZANNE STRYK      Beyond Biology (Rabbit), Mixed Media. 2018.
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 * Selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021

Volume 53.2     SUMMER 2020

N O N F I C T I O N
CHARLOTTE TAYLOR FRYAR      Blackwater *
A. MOLOTKOV      Wood on Snow

F I C T I O N
KIM BRADLEY       King of the Mountain
JUDITH DANCOFF      The Death of Ria Munk
JANIS HUBSCHMAN   Coyote
JEFF MCLAUGHLIN   Burning Away the Fog
ANN RUSSELL   A New Roof

P O E T R Y
JOSEPH BATHANTI      Liberty
JAMES CIANO      Rolling Rock
BRYCE LILLMARS        Dear Human
ESTHER LIN      Hidden One
DEREK MONG       U. A. V. 
CHRISTINA OLSON       Anxiety Lake
LEE PETERSON       Equinox: Elegy
L. RENÉE       Ghazal: Hog Killing Time
KRISTIN ROBERTSON      Lottery (She wants...)  |  Lottery (With my...)
MARA ADAMITZ SCRUPE       Stone-on-Stone
WESLEY SEXTON       Origin Story 
ANNIE WOODFORD      A Poem in Which I Grab My Poverty Like That Jaguar in the Video Grabbed a
                              Crocodile Out of the River and Carried It into the Jungle

C O V E R   A R T
STACEY KOLBIG      Paper Peeker No. 8, Paper (Rives BFK). 2020.
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 * Selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021

Volume 53.3     FALL 2020

N O N F I C T I O N
ALLISON LaSORDA      The Pain You Want to Know *
ALEXANDRIA PEARY      Hello to All That *

F I C T I O N
MARLENE LEE      City of Tomorrow
DENNIS MCFADDEN      Another Little Legend
SEAN ROSE      Dancer
GREGORY WOLOS      Bed of Nails

P O E T R Y
ASHIA AJANI      Durag
JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY      00:00:11
ARIANA BENSON      On Mars
NATE DUKE      Illinois River, Northern Arkansas  |  Texarkana Apocrypha
MATT DONOVAN      The Etymology of Gazebo
BETHANY SCHULTZ HURST      Exposure
RASAQ MALIK      Ode to Despair
LESLIE MCINTOSH      Moynihan Dreams of the Black Life's Lack
MARY MORRIS      Dear September
JULIA THACKER      God Awful
MARISA TIRADO      Selena Sonnets
ANNIE WOODFORD      Wilkes County Posada

C O V E R   A R T
KAT LEZNIK      Circus 12, 22, 34, 36, 47, 51. Pencil on Moleskin Paper. 2020.
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 * Selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021

Volume 53.4     WINTER 2020

N O N F I C T I O N
TAYLOR BRORBY      Levi
CERIDWEN HALL      Submarine Reconnaissance: Bodies, Permutations, Voyages *

F I C T I O N
NICOLE BAUTE      Only Human
TORREY CRIM      Mountain, Mother
GLORIA L. HUANG      The Hive
MEGAN KAKIMOTO      Madwomen

P O E T R Y
CELIA BLAND      Something Between Breaths
E. G. CUNNINGHAM      Dog Walks Through a Garden
R. M. KINDER      When I Die
DANIEL LASSELL      Sinkhole
RODNEY TERICH LEONDARD      XI
JENNIFER MAIER      Mirror
EMILIE MENZEL      We Step Outside and There's an Uneasiness
LUCAS DANIEL PETERS      How Else
DEREK SHEFFIELD      A Moment Ago
SIMON SHIEH      Day One
NATHAN SPOON      A Cup of Tea
BEATRICE SZYMKOWIAK     O Horizon

C O V E R   A R T
HEIDI HOGDEN      Watching / Waiting. Oil on Canvas. 2020.
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Volume 54.1     SPRING 2021

N O N F I C T I O N
JADE HIDLE      Thúy
EMILY WAPLES      Sick Time

F I C T I O N
REMY BARNES      The Eventual Return of All Lost Things
CHRISTINE MA-KELLAMS      La Llorna and Chang'e are Friends
RAQUEL OLIVE      Resurrection
KEIJA PARSSINEN      Don't Look  |  New Orleans

P O E T R Y
JOHN BLAIR      Eclogue 15: What We Owe This Life  |  The Comedy of This King
ASA DRAKE      Dreamscape Dressed in My Younger Self  |  American Crow Delivers a Message 
                                                                                               to My Younger Self
GILES GOODLAND      Rain  |  God is My Co-Pilot
AIDEN HEUNG      At a Deserted Neighborhood
PATRICK HOLIAN      The Archivist
AVERY K. JAMES      Here, I forget the sound of engines
DAVID KLOSE      Dividing by Zero
ROOJA MOHASSESSY      War  |  Believers


C O V E R   A R T
J. LEIGH GARCIA     January. Woodcut. 2013.
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Volume 54.2     SUMMER 2021

N O N F I C T I O N
MYRONN HARDY      The Puppet
IAN SPANGLER      Red Wine Vinegar

F I C T I O N
SER ÁLIDA      Love thy neighbor.
LESLIE BLANCO      A Sane Person Doesn't Do Something Like That
BENJAMIN MURRAY      Playgrounds
GLEN POURCIAU      Invade

P O E T R Y
HALA ALYAN      Fatima : : Solstice
ANNE BARNGROVER      Owls Come to Us
JORDAN ESCOBAR      Abuelo, Your Voice Remains Tangled in Hills I Cannot Climb  |  Banjo on  
                               Duchesne Ridge, UT
RHIENNA RENÉE GUEDRY      FKA Plaquemines
SJOHNNA MCCRAY      In America, We are Always Metaphors
IMMANUEL MIFSUD  translated by  RUTH WARD      Palestiniana
ANNA NEWMAN      Between light and the body
KIMBERLY RAMOS      cut in the earth
KAREN RIGBY      Portrait as Demilune Console with Marquetry
BRETT SHAW      Ode to In Between
travis tate      A POEM IN WHERE I'M DEAD & I TALK TO MY PORTRAIT IN A MUSEUM


C O V E R   A R T
AGNIYA TOLSTOKULAKOVA     Pink City. Digital. 2020.
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Volume 54.3     FALL 2021

N O N F I C T I O N
BARBARA LILES      My Father's Portraits
JJ PEÑA      he got lost humming & then went over his body

F I C T I O N
BARBARA BARROW      A Bitch for the Rest of His Life
ERIN COMERFORD      A Prayer for Frank Lane
JUDITH DANCOFF      The Beautiful Gaze
ERICA JASMIN DIXON      Marta's Baby
LEE ROZELLE      Baby Face

P O E T R Y
ELIZABETH AOKI      Slouching like a velvet rope
MARY LEAUNA CHRISTENSEN      In Which I Am a Sum of Parts
NOAH DAVIS      The Last Beast We Revel In
ARMEN DAVOUDIAN      Morality Police
MARLANDA DEKINE      Plantersville, South Carolina
ANDREW HEMMERT      Angels
MAURYA KERR      Dorothy Dandridge on White Men in Hollywood
CATE LYCURGUS      Eye Witness
ATHENA NASSAR      Ken'ya See Us Now
KHALISA RAE      Circus Acts: No More Black Girl Magic
DARIUS SIMPSON      I Left the Church in Search of God
ARIANA FRANCESCA THOMAS      Slingshots for Cowboy Astronauts


C O V E R   A R T
LAVETTE BALLARD     The Absence Of... Mixed media/collage on reclaimed      
                               wood fencing. Collection of Jule Collins Smith          
                               Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University.
​                               Reproduced with permission of the artist.