River Teeth Print Journal

Issue 25.2

Spring 2024

Editor’s Notes by Daniel W. Lehman and Joe Mackall

It was a wintry afternoon in what was then a rough neighborhood in Washington, DC, and a colleague and I were out scouting pictures and stories for the neighborhood newspaper wed started in 1972. Our wanderings that day led us out for a news feature on a new city playground, where we watched kids shoot hoops, scramble up and down sliding boards, and pump swings until ropes went slack with their soaring. Continue reading . . .

 

Contents

“Darkness Erased” Ali Saperstein  ◆  “Firebrand” Robert W. Fieseler    “Ground” Jenna Hammerich    “Black Boy Dreams of Flying Machines” Sean Enfield    “The Day My Mother Died” Hannibal Hamlin     “The Voicer of God” Sarah Minor    “How to Tell the Truth About Recovery” Timothy J. Hillegonds    “Naloxone, Syringes, and Pipes” Melody Glenn
Contributors’ Notes . . .

More Print Issues

Two koi fish swimming in dark water

Issue 25.1

Featuring the writing of Elizabeth Miki Brina, Kit Carlson, Brooke Champagne, Henrietta Goodman, Megan Harlan, Sonya Huber, Laura Johnsrude, Shannon McCarthy, Tierney Oberhammer, Jon Parrish Peede, and Justin St. Germain.

Part of a slice of watermelon. Yum!

Issue 24.2

Featuring the writing of Greg Bottoms, Elizabeth Carls, Jim Daniels, Kathleen Driskell, Michael Down, Renata Golden, Diane Gottlieb, Sydney Lea, Ann Leamon, Leslie Jill Patterson, Julia Purks, Claudia F. Saleeby Savage, Layli Shirani, Jill Talbot, Melissa Akie Wiley.

RT 24.1 Cover

Issue 24.1

Featuring the writing of Nicholas Dighiera, Nicole Hamer, Jessica Kulynych, David McGlynn, Lilly U. Nguyen, Craig Reinbold, S. N. Rodriguez, Ellen Rogers, Ana Maria Spagna, Leslie Stonebraker, and Jessie van Eerden.

Tiger Cover for Issue 23.2

Issue 23.2

Featuring the writing of Constance Adler, N.D. Brown, Andre Dubus III, Sophie Ezzell, Suzanne Finney, Steven Harvey, Mary Milstead, Jefferson Slagle, Ira Sukrungruang, Alexandra Teague, and Kathryn Winograd.

Cover of RT 23.1, Whales Dancing

Issue 23.1

Featuring the writing of Desiree Cooper, Michael Garrigan, Tiffany Isaacs, Jessica Johnson, Aaron Landsman, Sarah Layden, Tyler Mills, Marion Peters Denard, and Jan Shoemaker.

Cover of RT 22.2: Flamingos

Issue 22.2

Featuring the writing of Greg Bottoms, James Brown, Marianne Jay Erhardt, Jessica Franken, Jason Goldsmith, Richard Goodman, Nicole Graev Lipson, Shamecca Harris, Rick Rees, Abigail Thomas, and Emily Waples.

RT 22.1 Cover, Salmon Fishing

Issue 22.1

Featuring the writing of Erin Block, Michael Dinkel, J. Malcolm Garcia, Megan Harlan, Susan Jackson Rodgers, Ren Jones, Emma Kaiser, Brenda Miller, Micah Perks, Molly Rideout, Allie Spikes, Jonathan Starke, and Julie Marie Wade.

Cover of RT 21.2, Desert Road

Issue 21.2

Featuring the writing of Tim Bascom, Wendy Bilen, James Ellenberger, Kelly Fordon, Camellia Freeman, Nicole Graev Lipson, Mary Grimm, Kelle Groom, Kevin Honold, Phillip Hurst, Rebecca McClanahan, and Liz Prato.

Cover of RT 21.1, Fire Season

Issue 21.1

Featuring the writing of Noah Davis, Nicholas Dighiera, Molly Gallentine, Susan H. Greenberg, Stephen D. Gutierrez, Sean Ironman, Lawrence Lenhart, Beth Ann Miller, Jan Shoemaker, Laurie Uttich, and Leonard Winograd.

River Teeth 20.2 Cover, Volcano

Issue 20.2

Featuring the writing of Elizabeth Miki Brina, Fleda Brown, Jeff Gundy, Rosanna N. Henderson, EmmaJean Holley, Anne McGrath, E.J. Myers, Sam Pickering, Evan Reibsome, Chris Siteman, J. David Stevens, Jill Talbot, and Rachel Weaver.

Scroll right to choose more past issues. >