Issue 6: April 2019

6! Welcome to the sixth issue of CAGIBI’s literary journal. Just what you’ve been waiting for. You have experienced the best of the best. You were always so happy to see me, when finally I showed up, late as usual, the mess of me, my bag smelling of an exquisite pastry that I didn’t save for you. I ate it on the E train to Queens among the drunks and homeless and other hot messes like me, who have you waiting at home. You have always asked for the unexpected, and so in June we bring you CAGIBI’s inaugural print issue of an anthology (curated by Jonathan Galassi) and Macaron Prize winners. You resist the routine. You want more Aprils in the countryside, and here we are again, in a small moment, together.

The Editors.

P.S. Save the date: join us as we celebrate our print issue in NYC on Tuesday June 25 at KGB! —S&C

Issue 6

April 2019

Features

On Writing: The Reluctant Biographer - by Martha Wolfe
Out Into Nowhere-ness: Interview with Translator and Poet Uljana Wolf - by Sarah Timmer Harvey: an interview with translator and poet Uljana Wolf on the translation of Ilse Aichinger’s Bad Words
No Story Book: A Video Poem - by Shura Chernozatonskaya (aka Skaya)

Stories

People You May Know - by Andrea Jarrell
The Igloo - by Debbie Graber
In Translation: The Opposite of Lizards // Il contrario delle lucertole - by Erika Bianchi, trans. Lucy Rand
The Creek Watcher - by Feivel Wolff
Me and a Tape - by Jana Llewellyn
The Dinner Party - by Judy Locker
Selfie Swipe - by Keira Sinclair
Rooms - by Margie Sarsfield
Cape Odd Couple - by Robert Rubino

Essays

Munch - by Dein Sofley
A Shed of His Own - by E. J. Myers
Snapshots: Rose Hill Farm - by Martha Moore Davis
Cows - by Rebecca Kirschbaum

Poems

Salted Earth - by Alice Hatcher
Confessions of the Snakeskin Preacher - by Ben Crace
Would You Like to Trade Blood - by Clare Welsh
No Shovels Left in Saada - by Daniel Jenkins
Erasure - by David Rock
Away From Town - by George Ryan
Not Sleep - by Laura Lee
Triplets in Trump Time - by Mike Wilson
In Translation: Two Poems by Nikolaj Reber, trans. Boris Kokotov - Weekend in Babylon // Weekend в Вавилоне | Untitled
Minneapolis Past Midnight - by Peter Kent
trying - by Rachel Schollmeier
Falling Asleep with Carpenter Bees - by Romana Iorga
I Was in My Audrey Hepburn Phase - by Stephen Roberts
The Husband - by Toby Buckley
In Translation: April in the Countryside // 乡村四月 - by Weng Juan (Song), trans. Gary Young and Yanwen Xu

Issue Cover

“DP 1309” photograph by Stefan Hengst.

Issue 6.1

Features from Cagibi Express

Postcard from Glasgow (Tuesday, July 9, 2019) - by James Patterson
Catherine Texier // The Cagibi Express Interview (Tuesday, July 2, 2019) - Cagibi interviews Catherine Texier, whose latest novel is Russian Lessons
Ulrich Baer // The Cagibi Express Interview (Tuesday, May 28, 2019) - Cagibi interviews Ulrich Baer, a teacher, writer, and translator who speaks with leading thinkers about powerful ideas on his podcast Think About It
Rachel Cline // The Cagibi Express Interview (Tuesday, May 21, 2019) - Cagibi interviews Rachel Cline, whose latest novel is The Question Authority
Among the Ruins // Entre las ruinas (book excerpt) (Tuesday, May 14, 2019) - by George Franklin, trans. Ximena Gómez
The Color Inside a Melon (book excerpt) (Tuesday, May 7, 2019) - by John Domini, from his novel The Color Inside a Melon
Book Passage: Don Cummings // The Body, the Self, a Book (Tuesday, April 30, 2019) - by Don Cummings
To My Father: A Letter From The Other Woman (Tuesday, April 23, 2019) - by Nancy Hightower
On the Ground: To The Other Side In Tijuana (Tuesday, April 16, 2019) - by Karen Laws

Prefer to Dive In at Random?

A cagibi is a place where things are often gathered pell-mell, which comes from the French word pêle-mêle, a state of affairs characterized by the random mixing of things, a chaotic state of affairs that also opens the door to unexpected discovery. In that spirit, while this page lists the contents alphabetically by the contributor’s first name, here also is a separate list in random order, to encourage you to skip around the contents of Cagibi Issue 6, to discover a work of prose or poetry you’d like to sink down into. We expect it will stay with you, and we hope you’ll be inspired to share it. Dive in!