!WELCOME SATURDAY NIGHT!

W/BETH ALVARADO! JOSH GARCIA! JULIE LAUTERBACH-COLBY! STEPHANIE BALZER!

STEPHANIE BALZER

from faster, faster

When he became an American citizen a black man from Chad renamed himself “Samuel” after Samuel Smith. Now he’s avoiding eating sugar to lose weight. Overheard: considering all the places money goes we should put rock stars on our bills, not Presidents. Put Mick Jagger on the $20. But we want to think of money as clean and so we do.

JULIE LAUTERBACH-COLBY

TIME UNDERGROUND:

CONVERSATIONS WITH GUSTAF SOBIN

1.

To Gustaf Sobin, I wonder what initially drove you to live the way you lived, in a small, isolated house atop a hillside, with a single church, the only sign of civilization, about one kilometer away. I suppose you had your books, your small cabanon two hundred meters from your front door, your wife and family, too.

JOSH GARCIA

What Happens When You Turn Around

Where you are headed gets closer.
The world behind you has vanished and everything you thought
you saw has changed.

BETH ALVARADO

from Anthropologies

xix

At the Palace of Fruits on a summer evening, I wear red socks in my white sandals, my father carries a watermelon under his arm, my mother holds up boxes of sparklers, gold, red, blue, for my little sister and me to see.