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Issue 52: Summer / Fall 2024

52, New Issue by New Orleans Review

Contributors: Kriston Banfield, Maggie Bard, Matt Rossi, Saritha Ramakrishna, David Schwartz, Nnadi Samuel, Zaynab Bobi, Danielle Kotrla, Nnamdi Ndiol, Alex Tretbar, Maud Acheampong, Sophie Ezzell, Nadia Born, Summer Suleiman, Melissa Goodnight, Court Harler

How to Breathe

52, New Essay by Court Harler

  1. Choke

Over text, an old friend tells me he’s learned how to “choke a bitch” since we were last in bed. 

I was drinking bourbon and ginger, much like I am now, thinking about his particular phrasing, remembering how timid …

Water Damage

52, New Art by Maggie Bard

ink drawing, 18″x24″

This piece is part of a series documenting receding coastlines and the effects of climate change in the Gulf South.


Maggie Bard is an American artist born in 1984 in the Northeast. She received her BFA in …

Sixty Seconds in the Body of a Cyborg

52, New Poetry by Zaynab Bobi

a dead body shapeshift into a cyborg to look for his lost body with these details: 

                     facial appearance; a black face snowing with flickery smile.

                     country; a place where oceans swell from music of blackness peeling its skin. 

                     last seen; …

Firm Decision/Conviction

52, New Art by Kriston Banfield

Acrylic and Aerosol Paint on Paper. 42”x41”, 2021

Artist’s statement

My work is concerned with ideas of community and belonging, often referencing the process of journey, healing and transformation that one undergoes trying to define self. Strongly inspired by Trinidad …

Love Was This Alone

52, New Fiction by David Lerner Schwartz

Paul knew his new girlfriend Lydia was better than his ex-girlfriend Lydia. She was kinder. She was more considerate. She was also prettier once she got all done up. She liked what Paul liked—at least more so than Lydia had—trendy …

Aubade For A Body Bejewelled With Napalm (after Romeo Oriogun’s “Invisible Man”)

52, New Poetry by Nnamdi Ndiolo

I must be a god the way I keep tiptoeing out of death, 
like the miracle of clouds fleeing the sky.

My palms spread out in prayer like the legs of a cheating wife:
Father, take this cup of suffering …

Field 38 & Field 53

52, New Poetry by Alex Tretbar

Field 38

Because the physical infrastructure can no longer be used to die
by suicide. Because you thought that the birds were robins until
you looked up. Because the mountain trail (you can see it from
here) is broken into …

Calvary & Self-Portrait

52, New Poetry by Danielle Kotrla

CALVARY

John Baldessari, Hegel’s Cellar, 1986

That thick blue line of painter’s tape might as well be holding everything up. The only fact
             from the figures,
not the riders lost on top of their horses nor the horses themselves, …

In Love You Learned

52, New Essay by Sophie Ezzell

How to break a book at the spine, how to rip out the pages without tearing them, how to cut them into
origami squares & how to crease the paper just right. How to fold a bunny, how to fold …

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