...Will Dolben [email protected] © 2023 Will Dolben 2023 Will Dolben Staring at a Mountain I see myself in the attic, notice my mother s rotary cutter on the desk. This is 20 years ago I m new to mental illness. The sky is blue with various clouds. A house that survived the fire...

...Young Hoon Oh; Margret Grebowicz A Sherpa laughed off his colleague’s death, stunning a Korean teammate on Mt. Everest. In the face of their friends’ deaths, Korean and Sherpa mountaineers behave quite distinctively from each other. Based on anthropological research on Sherpa and Korean...

...Jamaal May © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Jamaal May The Man Who Paints Mountains and Helicopters for Rodney Denne Not the coin and not the thumb. Not even the palm it smacks down on, heads up. You are not the choice, no matter what it looks like today...

...: crawling with amateur adventurers who can afford it and littered with the corpses of those who do not make it down. Indeed, the mountaineer summiting Everest has become the ultimate figure of human achievement, a sort of mascot of upward mobility. Today’s climbing body is more often than not presented...

...: Collected Mountaineering Writings Of Greg Child . Seattle : Mountaineers . Cuboniks Laboria . n.d . “ The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation .” Laboria Cuboniks . https://laboriacuboniks.net/manifesto/xenofeminism-a-politics-for-alienation/ ( accessed July 28, 2022...

.... And if you should meet the woman from the mountain, pass her by. Stay close within the village bounds. The mountain beyond the field is sheathed in fog, and those who seek the woman do not return. We pass the warning down from son to son, but some will not obey. Your mirage shimmer ripples across...

... of changing my life, I took the easier route. I was lured by the romance of live volcanoes overlooking black sand beaches and banana trees. For two hours, as my Jeep snaked its way through the basaltic mountains of Costa Rica, I had little idea what to expect at each precipitous curve...

..., as if you’re a mountain worth not only climbing, but build- ing a language unto, you should know that I’m with you, reader, but there’s no page to turn to. Sometimes you’re the yodeler. Sometimes you must carve the mountain yourself. ...

... of blood eased down the whitewashed boards, the fierce yel- low gleam draining from its iris. Sull and Marion heard a shrill cry breaking in two parts, then three. The eagle’s mate was banking to the clouds above Fenwick Mountain. As she climbed updrafts on stiff wing beats, the circle she made grew...

...Brian Oliu © 2015 Brian Oliu 2015 Brian Oliu Blaster Master This is what has been left to us. I don’t remember what I saw: the peeking out of legs from a hole we dug in the backyard, the wheels, the mountain. I live in the shadow of a mountain: colossal —​a vol- cano dormant...

... © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 171 Contributors Poetry / Fiction Anne Baldo is a grocery store cashier. Shaindel Beers teaches at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon. Her poetry, fiction...

..., Pank, Diode, No Tell Motel, and else- where. He lives and works in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. H. L. Hix’s recent books include a volume of selected poems, First Fire, Then Birds (2010), and an essay collection, Lines of Inquiry (2011). He lives in the mountain west with his partner, the poet Kate...

..., Cathexis Northwest Press, Tulane R eview, Florida R eview, Hawai i Review, Cold Mountain Review, Westchester Review, Worcester Review, Yes, Adelaide Literary, Mud Season, Frontier Magazine, Muse/A, Bookends Review, Crack the Spine, Alternating Current, K in, Waxing and Waning, Split Lip Magazine...

... includes poetry, fiction, film, and cross-genre collaboration. Her first play, Waiting for God, appeared January 2022. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. www.vikhinao.com. James O Leary (they/them) is a trans poet from Arizona. James s work has been nominated for both the Best...

... Magazine. Horam Kim earned his BA from New York University and his MFA from Brooklyn College. He wrote and directed the feature film I Love You, Apple, I Love You, Orange. His writing has appeared or is forth- coming in Green Mountains Review, Vestal Review, Small Spiral Note- book, and elsewhere...

... would watch me, sometimes for several minutes, unconcerned. I squared my shoul­ ders and stuck out my chest. My days fell into a friendly pattern. There is a deep pool in a bend of Rattlesnake Creek just east of my cabin. It is fed by melted snow from the Mission Mountains. After the bear...

... Camouflage Sleepwear exists, how spaghetti straps play into hunting’s hide and seek, what it means to cloak a lover in mossy oak. After killing bongo in the Congo, scaling Ethiopian hills for mountain nyala, stalking mbogo on foot, and filling your classic bag of plains...

... the rights to a piggery on a mountain top for the rest of his life. When garbage fed to pigs was required to be boiled, he went bankrupt and died. In the hurricane of'56 John Sydoriak was the last person too cross a bridge across the Housatonic...

... pointing at me with his dog paw and laughing. This goes on until all the trucks break down and the drivers and their fami­ lies build caves inside the mountains of dead birds. They shout me on, their hungry mouths as red and open as the wounds of their new homes, as I load the final bullet and aim...

... and not waves like (waves) but waves like (pulls back durag) waves. Stick Tom Cotton in a white robe and put him at the top of Orthnac Tower his Saruman looking ass. Turn the Lonely Mountain Atlantan stone and toss Cuban links in its bowels and get all my niggas to survive Helm s Deep in ways we did not Katrina...