Issue No. 4
Summer 2023
In the fourth issue of The Ampersand Review, we are proud to present a variety of poems, short stories, and works of creative nonfiction that range in theme and style. This issue features an exclusive interview with Waubgeshig Rice, a conversation between Heather Birrell and Stuart Ross, fiction from Hollay Ghadery and Sneha Subramanian Kanta, poetry by Natasha Ramoutar, Joshua Chris Bouchard, and Lindsay Zier-Vogel, and more.
Contents
Poetry
Natasha RamoUtar
In Other Words, Hold My Hand
Playing FFXV at 2 A.M.
Tamagotchi
Neil Surkan
Flounder
Tattoo Talk with the Acupuncturist
Emily Schultz
The Privacy of Photographs
Interviewing Charles Simic with a Broken Recorder
Joshua Chris Bouchard
Black Fly
Song
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Trash Haphazard
A Compression of Hours Both Glacial and Blue
John Barton
After Revisiting the Graveyard
Lindsay Zier-vogel
Tuesday night at 9:14
All the Raccoons Have Distemper
Chris hutchinson
Lives of the Poet: Moving in Alone
Fiction
Hollay Ghadery
Nothing Will Save Your Life but This Might Buy You Time
Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Flamingo Season
Non-Fiction
Rebecca Kempe
The “Beauty” of my Existence
Heather Birrell
Grief and Hamburgers: Stuart Ross in Conversation with Heather Birrell
Features
Waubgeshig Rice
Arsenal Pulp Press, CAROUSEL Magazine, and Collusion Books
Three Short Interviews with Independent Presses
Reviews
Jérôme Melançon
okay? by Lori Anderson Moseman,
too many words by Lori Anderson Moseman
Jade Wallace
The Whole Animal by Corinna Chong
Shaylyn Schwieg
Ordinary Wonder Tales: Essays by Emily Urquhart