Casita (detail), Acrylic, Monotype, Collage, Fiberglass, Polymer, Plaster, PVA Glue, Cardboard, 75”x70”x22,” 2023, Kristy Hughes
Featured Artist
Kristy Hughes
Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Blessings Over the Bodies of My Father’s Murderers
Sonnet for the Queer and Light-Skinned
The Limitations of Batesian Mimicry; Or, a Divine Flow for Habitat Loss
Comics
Novel Excerpts
Let me be a garden of unfruitfulness. Let me /
give birth to new defiance every day.
—“Tubal Ligation,” Jehanne Dubrow
Interview
It’s Not Like I Can Adopt a Country: Siew Interviews Majda Gama
David Siew Hii, Shenandoah’s associate poetry editor, interviews poets! To showcase their voices, the questions in the interview were removed, leaving behind only the voice of the writer. In this interview, Majda Gama talks about being an accidental Virginian, what makes a lifestyle, cats from the Middle East, and how poetry and prose party differently. Read her poem Graybeal-Gowen Prize-winning poem, “In Great Aunt Noor’s Salon”.