TIR Staff
With grateful thanks for the patience of our readers and writers, we wanted to provide a cover reveal of our delayed Fall 2020 issue, freshly arrived from the printer yesterday. The pandemic shut down our physical office starting in March 2020 and contributed to delays in filling staff vacancies. But our remaining team kept going, even headquartered in their cars, even as children interrupted at home to ask for help with long division, or even as their own lives as students were being upturned.
The mission of a literary magazine, to hold a space for the voices of diverse writers to move and enlighten us, kept us going. The first words of the first piece in the issue, Melissa Range s poem Fever Season Work doesn t stop for blood / born to immunity. pull us into the 1853 Yellow Fever epidemic in New Orleans, but also address our current pandemic. The last piece in the issue, Gregg Williard s essay Geek Duende, Blithe Dread, offers a tongue-in-cheek sect