A note from the magazine’s new publisher.
On Joanna Chen’s essay, it’s retraction, and Guernica’s new publisher.
Our March issue
Material reality had suddenly decided to rearrange itself.
“The year I found my own independence was the year they finally gained the right to go — and to stay — home.”
I’ll tell them their grandfather / must have lived in a tall building
https://www.guernicamag.com/if-i-have-grandchildren-with-this-accent/
from Laura McNeal’s new novel, The Swan's Nest
Photo by Ryunosuke Kikuno / Unsplash Guernica regrets having published this piece, and has retracted it. A more fulsome explanation will follow.
https://www.guernicamag.com/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world/
From afar, I was seen practicing / agony.
The girl couldn’t just abandon those animals on the other side.
https://www.guernicamag.com/black-wing-dragging-across-the-sand/
died so I looked online / and couldn’t believe the price
What had these poor half-beasts done, besides exist in an ever-changing world that didn’t want to understand them?
In so many ways, human behavior is emptying the Amu Darya.
And my eyes were closed for that ganglial instant of ruin
For a country that has lost touch with any mainstream practice of farming, what does it mean for us to want to farm again?
For a while there was a mantra and it went like this.
The February issue
I’m trying to write you a love song but / the news overspills as I boil coffee.
In all things art, put quality first.
“When I make work, I ask myself, can my Ethiopian mom understand this?”