Issue 19.2

Poet GC Waldrep shares the experiences behind his poem “The Arrhythmias,” including horrible dreams, stolen peaches, and a childhood book with a bright turquoise color.

We speak with Issue 19.2 contributor Rasha Alduwaisan about her career in cultural histories.

We revisit Sharon Kunde’s haunting, wrecked landscape with its trains, silos, and blurring speed.

Claire Denson reads her poem “Hibernation” from our Issue 19.2.

One season my stomach shrankfrom staying in bed for monthsso hungry. When bears hibernate, their bodies recycle to stayalive: reabsorbing urine, feces,like a dream each night. In those winter days,my stronger self recededinto that hole we all fear. Dirt from every angle. No onethinks so, but bears do wakein that shadowed cave, shifting to ward …