Nonfiction by Casey Rocheteau
Becky (after Morgan Parker)
Perigee
Solidarity Across Struggles: a conversation with author Mona de Vestel
One String Guitar (Harvard Square Editions, 2016) weaves the histories of the Rwandan genocide and the 1973 Siege at Wounded Knee through two women’s stories—Francine, a survivor of the genocide who has resettled in upstate New York; and her medical interpreter, Elbe, who was born on a reservation and adopted by a white family. One-String Guitar follows their journeys to come to terms with their personal and generational trauma. You can order One-String Guitar here.
Poetry by Barbara Jane Reyes
Ghost A ghost is a dissolving self who is dissolving because she has little else to do except dissolve. She lingers as no one has given her permission to leave the room. She waits for them to summon her, to refill their rice, to make their coffee, to bring more beer from the ice box. The game’s on and there are guests. Surely, they will call. She will stand in her corner and fold her hands until they call. She will wait.
Fiction by Christine Ro
Under a regime of managed migration, some caseworkers control not just the borders, but the future prosperity of societies.
Poetry by Shabnam Piryaei
there is no separate survival
Editor’s Toolkit For Resistance and Resilience
We at Apogee, like most of our community, are deeply troubled by this week’s election. We sense the resentment and bigotry targeted at so many in our community, and we fear the violence that this election represents and inspires. So many who are driven by oppressive views feel emboldened by this election.
Poetry by Alana Folsom
Another Story of the Eye
What the Body Keeps: An Interview with Nikki Wallschlaeger
Nikki Wallschlaeger talks with Apogee Journal Poetry Co-Editor, Muriel Leung about her poem, “This Body Keeps the Key,” which appears in Issue 07 of the journal.
Poetry by Lara Mimosa Montes
from The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, October 2016)
Poetry by Seann Weir
“you will beg them to teach you how to pray“