A couple weeks ago, NDQ 91.1/2 went to our publishing partner at the University of Nebraska Press. This means that it’s only a matter of time before the issue is winging its way to subscribers and authors (and through the tubes of the internet).

To whet your appetite, here’s the table of contents for the next issue!

Editors Note

Fiction

Birdie, Alone
Gina Willner-Pardo

Hollywood
Chris Viner

Miss Emily Berghauser
John Mort

Rest Assured
Michael Merlo

Imperfect
Lisa Wessling

Anacortes
Ryan Kenedy

Prudence Faith
Claire Gochal

A Brief Excerpt from the History of Tobacco
Ben Roth

Essays

Why I Read the Slush Pile
Peter Brown

Nine Variations on Pete Townshend and Abbie Hoffman
David Susman

chore boy 4 mommi
Cyrus Stuvland

Angry Young Linguist
David Carkeet

The Cost of Doing Business
Billie Pritchett

Sugar Bowl of the Universe
Jennie Blum Lesinski

Poetry

Massarti, the Lion Tamer
My Father Asks to be Cremated
Daniel Ginsberg

a skull on a desk, and it is early morning
delineamented giants
Cory Dawson

My Locksmith Novel
Michael J. Galko

Dorothy of the Flowers
Paul Martin

Left Behind
Call the Stars by Name
Mary Salisbury

Spring Break
John Abbott

RFD
David Solheim

The Names of Things
Understanding Physics
Michael Rogner

Birds on a Feeder
Birds in a Bush
William Virgil Davis

God’s Garden
Louis Efron

Kurban Bayram
Keith Carver

Not a Meeting
A Tree
A Child’s Cry
Liliya Gazizova (translated by Olga Karasik-Updike)

Clearing the dreamfields
Andrea Moorhead

My Ancestors
Rerun
Debra Prazak

Sparrow
This is a Shopping List
Tyler Reilly

An American Election
Jon Ward

Wilfred Owen’s Release
Rupert Brooke at Skyros, 1915
Edward Thomas Shoves off for France
Edward Thomas at Havre, January 1917
Wilfred Owen: Shellshocked at Gailly
Daniel Weeks

Combat Manual
Alessio Zanelli

My Presidents
Kurt Olsson

Tattoos
A Foreign Language
Dana Yost

Warscapes
As We Stay Marooned inside Our Respective Teapots
Victory Chant
Nandini Dhar

Night Song
Petrichor
Ernest O. Ògúnyemí

On He Mni Can
All Water Desires to Return to the Ocean
Indian Summer
Halee Kirkwood

The Incredible Floridas
Ed Lyons

We Are Nature
Ndaba Sibanda

Deep Watering
Brandon Lamson

Shed No Sound
On Days
Light Music
Jim Richards

Paso Doble
Aubade: Woman with Roses
Joanne Mallari

Parable of Io
The Desire Catalogue
Parable of Daphne
Lillian Emerick Valentine

Sainthood
Daniel Brennan

Into Darkness
Before My Eyes
Good Fences
Diane Webster

Autumn in the Blue Ridge
The Job
Danny Barbare

It’s a Little Coffee Shop
James Foritano

Dear Grey Hair
Jainab Tabassum Banu

The Case with Puddles
James B. Nicola

Habituation
Allen Braden

The Johnson Boy, Age 11
Misophonia
Caitlin Johnson-Castelaz

Amazing Grace
Atom Bomb the Second
Robert Halleck

Last Thoughts of Hebron
Brandon Krieg

The Wilderness
J. Malta

Mea Culpa, USA
Rich Murphy

Harvest
A Prophet in Her Own Country
Rachel Rinehart

[Polaroid of]
Katie Jean Shinkle

burning book
Zeitgeist
Chris Butler

You’ve been coding in that cave of yours for days
Wonder-ferried to Beşiktaş
Christie Borely

Delayed Taste
Mark Taksa

Sharing the Trail
Jim Kevin Tilley

A Renegade Tour Guide Educates Visitors to the White House
Kevin Brown

What Is Living
White on White
Partial Mending during Hospice Care
Terri McCord

To S.
Gabriella Garofalo

Any Hospital USA
Judith Skillman

Monologue in a Pinhole into an Asylum
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(an interview session)
Saheed Sunday

Winnowing
Bradley Clompus

Evening Drive
Cameron Morse

The Pipes and John Wayne
Edward Lee

Code Mountain
The Craft of Art
Kenton K. Yee

Our Lands
Irene Villaseñor

Cholecystectomy
Timothy Dodd

Landscape with Fox
James Kangas

On my way home
The bag
Stories
Laura Zucca-Scott

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