IN THIS ISSUE
Cover Artist
Laylah Ali
Contributors
Kim Parko | Su Cho | Grace Arenas | Silvia Park | Cynthia Parker-Ohene
Dostena Anguelova (Translated by Holly Karapetkova) | Shannon Sankey
Izzy Casey | Paul Mok | Jennifer Savran Kelly | Betty Kim
Nome Emeka Patrick | Neha Mulay | Patrick Holian | Rebeca Aldreta Baca
Alyssa Froehling | Kim Min Jeong (Translated by Soeun Seo & Jake Levine)
Guest Editor Renee Gladman’s Portfolio of Afterwords
Heather Christle | Aricka Foreman | Joanna Howard | Amina Cain
Antonio Tabucchi (Translated by Kim Parks) | J’Lyn Chapman
Daniel Vogel | Anna Gurton-Wachter | AM Ringwalt
Erik Anderson | Youmna Chlala | Hoa Nguyen
Serge Pey (Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith)
Chapbook
K. Henderson
Masthead
EDITOR: Jackson Saul
MANAGING EDITOR: Josh Brandon
ART & DESIGN EDITOR: Lanessa Salvatore
FICTION EDITOR: Saul Alpert-Abrams
NONFICTION EDITOR: Jiaming Tang
POETRY EDITOR: Kelsey Nuttall
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA EDTIRO: Chelsea Hanna Cohen
TRANSLATION EDITORS: Josh Brandon, Jackson Saul, Jiaming Tang
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: August Kelly, sung
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Greg Ariail, Josh Brandon, Chelsea Hanna Cohen, Kayla Dale, Autumn Shae Fourkiller, Kira Frank, Harrison Gatlin, Dan Heslep, Tyra Isaacs, August Kelly, James McKenna, Andrew Mollenkof, Kelsey Nuttall, Frances Ray, Kaushika Suresh
ASSISTANT NONFICTION EDITORS: Josh Brandon, Chelsea Hanna Cohen, Kayla Dale, Kira Frank, Autumn Shae Fourkiller, Tyra Isaacs, August Kelly, James McKenna, Owen Neace, Kelsey Nuttall, sung
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: m Bennett, Josh Brandon, Chelsea Hanna Cohen, Reilly Cox, Kayla Dale, Kira Frank, Autumn Shae Fourkiller, August Kelly, James McKenna, Jane Morton, Owen Neace, Joshua Sackett, Lanessa Salvatore, Jiaming Tang, sung
Featured Artist:
Laylah Ali
Laylah Ali’s most famous and longest-running series of paintings depict brown-skinned and gender-neutral Greenheads and have been included in the Venice Biennale (2003) and the Whitney Biennial (2004) and were the subject of a major 2012–2013 touring exhibition originating at the Williams College Museum of Art and traveling to the Weisman Museum at the University of Minnesota and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University. Ali’s works are included in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, among many others. Ali lives and works in Williamstown, MA.
To see more of Laylah’s artwork, check her out on Instagram and pick up the latest issue of BWR!
BOYFRIEND VILLAGE: THE SECRET BOYFRIEND Is Live!
The Secret Boyfriend, the latest issue of BWR’s online edition, is live! With work from JinJin Xu, Charles Theonia, Jai Hamid Bashir, Rone Shavers, Landa wo, EA Kane, Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, Yi Sang (trans. Sawako Nakayasu), Rebekkah Leigh LaBlue, Monchoachi (trans. Patricia Hartland), Ross Showalter, Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Nicole Won Hee Maloof.
Enter the Village with all the Boyfriends here!