Spring 2021ISSUE 88
isms
The theme of this issue is -isms
subTerrain 88 // Spring 2021
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This issue features fiction by Margo LaPierre, Jim Oaten, and Cate Sercombe; commentary by Peter Babiak and Jonathan Simons; poetry by Kate Pashby, Lara Frankena, Sophie Sagan-Gutherz, and Spenser Smith, creative non-fiction from Julia Cottrelle, Casey Brenton, and Jason Bermiller, and excerpts from new books by Fahim Amir and Meg Remy. Plus our regular columns, the Crank & File from Matthew Firth and Chuffed About Chapbooks with Kevin Spenst.
Plus, our regular book review section featuring coverage of new books written by Andrea Actis, Steven Heighton, Sarah Moss, Norm Boucher, Bahar Orang, Peter Counter, Simon Springer, and Peter Cole, and edited by Mona Fertig and Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
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The Editors
Cover and design by Derek von Essen.
Fiction
The Aviators
Margo LaPierreMy neighbour-across-the-hall answered the door wearing a floor-length coat and aviators.
Breathe Freely, Costs Nothing
Cate SercombeHe breathed, ten inhalations and exhalations and the oxygen molecules were drawn into his lungs and the fear in his mind receded.
Poetry
Featured Poetry
Four Poems
Lara FrankenaNon-Fiction
Featured Non-Fiction
Ten Aphorisms on the Archaeology of “Ism”
Peter BabiakThe suffix “ism” migrated to English from the ancient Greek “ismos.”