AmLit Fall 2021

American Literary Magazine

And So I Do, And So I Do Ray Koffink Artist Statement: Title references the last line of Dalton Day’s poem “Dinosaurs Smelled Magnolias.”

After Dalton Day pg. 195 (05/04/2021) Blood let to flood through seams of corset ribbon, and hidden are the waves of your hands. Leaking through to my ribs like God must have held Adam. Soil and sand between his skin manifest a glass body to burn and there lies my sin: between bed sheets. And my hands, your hair is as black as ash yet lit like tobacco on Father’s lips, a liquid smoke in my lungs like flood, like run and river song, just us, on and on and on.

AmLit Fall 2021

Articles inside

the effects of distance: a series of love letters — Sydney Muench

Not a Nightmare — Kaitlyn Newport

manic pixie nightmare — Olivia Wenke

The People in That Car Must Be Dead — Max Robins

Mother — Gracie Donovan

I Love Long Titles But I Can Never Be Clever So, Here It Is You Bastards — Ray Koffink

Shadow Puppet — Ashley Hocking

First Supper — Vishwa Bhatt

February, 2009 — Gracie Donovan

Zeyde’s Big Day — Max Robins

Beautiful Things — Annie Przypyszny

the green interlude — McKenna Casey

Dollar Value — Abby Grifno

milk carton portrait — Alexia Partouche

How Do I Tell You — Rhys Allison

Dog World — Hope Neyer

White Dust — Natalie Flynn

perfect places — Trevor Luciani

Dreaming of a Spanish Morning — Lindsey McCormack

Mango Juice — Maite Ramos

if you’re reading this i’m alive — McKenna Casey

Untitled — Noah Fischer

Ghost Story — Vishwa Bhatt

Finding — Ashley Hocking

Cicadas Hum Psalms — Annika Rennaker

Call Me Shallow — Liah Argiropoulos

And So I Do, And So I Do — Ray Koffink

bittersweet — McKenna Casey

On a Hill in Vermont — Lindsey McCormack

Tongue Twister — Jamie Klinger

I’m Thinking — Annie Przypyszny

Skeletal Remains — Hannah Sjovold

Ode to the Closet — Jamie Klinger

At the Wild Reef Exhibit — Annie Przypyszny

A Premonition of Philophobia — Callie Lau

Sapphic x3 — Gracie Donovan