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Issue 26

Body

Our fall/winter issue offers poetry, stories, and essays that explore all kinds of ways of being in a body—both human and beyond. Read on for these plus our first dance feature, with text and images from choreographer Rosie Herrera's stunning dance works, including Tropical Depression, shown on the cover.

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Featured

Map  – 

•Inextricably Bound

Tali Weinberg
This woven material data map, when complete, will comprise more than three hundred sets of data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and over 1,500 feet of thread-wrapped medical tubing.
Nonfiction  – 

•Fake IDs

Arisa White
Remembering the young victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, a poet recalls the support that New York’s LGBTQ communities offered her in growing up and coming out.
Dance  – 

•Negotiating Surrender: Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre

Rosie Herrera
photographs by George Echevarria
In my process as a choreo­grapher, usually the image comes first: a spinning white plate, an underwater queen, a weeping bounce house, spaghetti hair. When constructing and deconstructing that image in the studio, I practice a sort of radical presence encompassing my body, my spirit, and the image. I aim at breaking open the symbolism in a way that might reveal something about the human condition. That research recycles back into my body and distills into a kernel of physical information that I use as a psychic barometer to navigate a more lengthy research period. The more time I have in this state, the more I am able to articulate tasks that I feel will guide the dancers toward surrender. The photographs and notes shown here document this process through three works: Tropical Depression, a work in progress set to premiere in May 2019 at Miami Dade Live Arts; Carne Viva, first shown at the American Dance Festival (ADF) in 2016; and Make Believe, first shown at ADF in 2018.
© Uwe Brodrecht, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr
Nonfiction  – 

•Garni-Geghard

Naira Kuzmich
Visiting with her family in her mother’s homeland of Armenia, an essayist ventures to a Christian monastery and a pagan temple, searching for her heritage among cross-stones and fish-dragons.
From the Editor  – 

•Material Life

Anna Lena Phillips Bell
Poetry  – 

Get Up Seven Times, Fall Down Eight

Patricia Smith
Poetry  – 

The Night I Wore the Purple Dress

January Gill O’Neil
Out of Place  – 

•Circling: Late-night Thoughts on Body and Mind

David Gessner
Poetry  – 

•Coywolf

Katie Hartsock
Poem in a Landscape  – 

•Brute Blood

Anna Maria Hong

News

Valentine’s Day reading period for poetry and debut fiction

This February 14, as we prepare for our fall 2019 Love Issue, Ecotone will be open to submissions by post and via Submittable. We'll be reading poetry in several forms—the sonnet, the rondel prime, and the bref double—as well as fiction by debut authors. Find our complete guidelines at ecotonemagazine.org/submissions.