BEST OF THE NET 2023; Essay in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2018;
(cited in BAE 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022); PUSHCART poetry finalist

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Spring 2023

Solstice Spring 2023 cover

I’ve found great pleasure in editing our Spring 2023 issue, and I’m sure you’ll be delighted to read the beautiful work of our contributors in all genres included here. In particular, I’m ecstatic to welcome Haitian-born poet and author Enzo Silon Surin as our poetry guest editor. When I met Enzo at AWP, I was immediately drawn to his warm personality and his awesome sense of style (looking dapper in salmon red chinos, knit blazer, and button-down shirt). As for our annual Summer Writing Contest, I’m thrilled to share that our submissions period is now open and we at Solstice are tremendously fortunate to have the support of remarkable authors Grace Talusan, Patricia Engel, A. Van Jordan, and Jess Ruliffson who will be judging the nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and graphic lit genres respectively. Our submissions period will be open through June 1 and I hope you’ll send us your best work. More details can be found here.

Lorena Hernández Leonard
Editor-in-Chief

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors' Notes

  • Note from the Editor-in-Chief
    by Lorena Hernández Leonard
  • Nonfiction Editor’s Note
    by Richard Hoffman
  • Guest Poetry Editor’s Note
    by Enzo Silon Surin
  • Poetry in Translation Co-Editors’ Note
    by Barbara Siegel Carlson and Ewa Chrusciel
  • Fiction Co-Editors’ Note
    by Lee Hope and Anjali Mitter Duva
  • Graphic Lit Editor’s note
    by Andrai Whitted

Fiction

  • The Burial
    by Jack Driscoll
  • Radiant Insanity
    by Tina Egnoski
  • Back Along The Octoraro
    by Breena Clarke
  • The Afterlife of History
    by Breena Clarke
  • Most Things Don’t Happen
    by Phillip Freeman
  • The Rivermen
    by Sithulisiwe. A. Wabatagore
  • Birds of New York
    by Rebecca Pyle
  • The Dead Love Us
    by Emily Shoff
  • Interview
    Interview with Sena Desai Gopal
    by Anjali Mitter Duva
  • Interview
    Interview with Jack Driscoll
    by Patricia Ann McNair

Graphic Lit

  • Jr. History Camp
    by Nance Van Winckel

Nonfiction

  • A Piece of Cloth
    by Nada Siddiqui
  • Her Hair
    by Omid Fallahazad
  • Internal Logic
    by Tobey Ward
  • Nature’s Push
    by Matt Paczkowski
  • White Kids’ Nightmares
    by Gail Griffin
  • Graphology
    by Dickson Lam
  • A New Lesson on an Old Hill
    by Natasha Israni
  • Back and Forth
    by Brandy E. Wyant
  • A Sense of An Ending
    by Gary Percesepe
  • Review
    As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book by Anne-Marie Oomen
    by Bronwyn Jones
  • Review
    Attention, Humor, Curiosity, and Poetry. Writing While Parenting by Ben Berman
    by Richard Hoffman
  • Review
    The Beloved Republic by Steven Harvey
    by Richard Cambridge
  • Interview
    Fairyland, an Interview with Alysia Abbott
    by Lorena Hernández Leonard

Photography

  • Where Do I Go?
    by Rania Matar

Poetry

  • Agape
    by Amanda Rabaduex
  • Sweet Samba
    by Shauna M. Morgan
  • I Dream I Am The Statue Of Liberty
    by Lauren WB Vermette
  • What If My Father Not My Father
    by Meghan Sterling
  • swan songs
    by Tramaine Suubi
  • Don Hipolito
    by Samuel "Sami" Miranda
  • My Mind Wanders Down to the Darkness
    by Ellen June Wright
  • Intimacy Among Young Men
    by Juan Pablo Mobili
  • [Creole is a daughtertongue, a cousintongue]
    by Kalani Padilla
  • Black Tresses and Wild Eyes
    by Arvinder Kaur Johri
  • Teshuvah
    by Janlori Goldman
  • Gay Voice
    by Grant Chemidlin
  • “the secret is that the world loves you” waltz
    by Amanda Rabaduex
  • Living Without Suffocating
    by Samuel "Sami" Miranda
  • There Are No Lessons for the Dead
    by Enzo Silon Surin
  • ghazal to the moon
    by Mishal Imaan Syed
  • Bequest
    by Shauna M. Morgan
  • Review
    Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room by Cynthia Bargar
    by Christine Jones
  • Review
    What Drifted Here By Barbara Siegel Carlson
    by Mark Walsh
  • Interview
    Five Questions for Betsy Sholl
    by Robbie Gamble
  • Review
    All Things Are Born to Change Their Shapes by Jennifer Martelli
    by Kathleen Aguero

Poetry in translation

  • Four Poems by Jadwiga Malina
    by Jadwiga Malina and Joanna Banach
  • Two Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
    by Rainer Maria Rilke and Susanne Petermann
  • Two Poems by Ilya Kutik
    by Ilya Kutik and Reginald Gibbons
  • Interview
    The Mystical and the Bewildering: An interview with Barbara Siegel Carlson and Ewa Chrusciel
    by Dzvinia Orlowsky


Contributors

Avatar photoAmanda Rabaduex
Avatar photoAnjali Mitter Duva
Avatar photoArvinder Kaur Johri
Avatar photoBrandy E. Wyant
Avatar photoBreena Clarke
Avatar photoBronwyn Jones
Avatar photoChristine Jones
Avatar photoDickson Lam
Avatar photoEllen June Wright
Avatar photoEmily Shoff
Avatar photoEnzo Silon Surin
Avatar photoGail Griffin
Avatar photoGary Percesepe
Avatar photoGrant Chemidlin
Avatar photoIlya Kutik
Avatar photoJack Driscoll
Avatar photoJadwiga Malina
Avatar photoJanlori Goldman
Avatar photoJoanna Banach
Avatar photoJuan Pablo Mobili
Avatar photoKalani Padilla
Kathleen AgueroKathleen Aguero
Avatar photoLauren WB Vermette
Avatar photoLorena Hernández Leonard
Avatar photoMark Walsh
Avatar photoMatt Paczkowski
Avatar photoMeghan Sterling
Avatar photoMishal Imaan Syed
avatar for Nada SiddiquiNada Siddiqui
Avatar photoNance Van Winckel
Avatar photoNatasha Israni
Avatar photoOmid Fallahazad
Avatar photoPatricia Ann McNair
Avatar photoPhillip Freeman
Avatar photoRainer Maria Rilke
Avatar photoRania Matar
Avatar photoRebecca Pyle
Avatar photoReginald Gibbons
Avatar photoRichard Cambridge
Richard HoffmanRichard Hoffman
Avatar photoRobbie Gamble
Avatar photoSamuel "Sami" Miranda
Avatar photoShauna M. Morgan
Avatar photoSithulisiwe. A. Wabatagore
Avatar photoSusanne Petermann
Avatar photoTina Egnoski
Avatar photoTobey Ward
Avatar photoTramaine Suubi

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