kerning | a space for words no. 4
kerning | a space for words no. 4
We are thrilled to present the fourth issue of kerning, a biannual compendium of writing that includes poetry, fiction, short stories, flash fiction, personal essays and creative nonfiction from women and gender diverse people.
For this issue, we invited writers and artists to send us work based on the theme “The Body as Evidence,” writing that tackles visibility and the body, and the journeys of discovery, healing, and even destruction that are undertaken to lay the truth bare.
“In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches... that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.”
—Janet Fitch
What’s Inside:
Poetry
once we had everything | nan seymour
Metronomes | Allison Collins
He Died & I | Sue Ann Gleason
after the miscarriage | Erin Schalk
Still Life, with Orange Peels | Laura Ingram
The Endurance of Feathers | Susan Leahy
Harbor | Damaris Moore
Follow Up—after cataract surgery | Carolyn Martin
Cells | Ann VanVolkenburgh Chang
Punching Bag, Tai Chi Class | Kristin Zimet
Ernestine | Nancy Flynn
A Quick Lesson in Hand-stitching a Mouth | Michelle Lynch
April 10, Grandpa | Michelle Latvala
Witness | Judy Kaber
And then the day | Erin Covey-Smith
to not be sorry for the overgrowth | Samantha Wallen
The mending | Olivia Dudding Rodriguez
Human Figures, Poolside | Sarah Disney
From Cuttings | Meg Weston
Home | Barb Reynolds
Short Fiction
Mikveh | Jamie Levy Pessin
Creative Nonfiction
Painbody | Britt Gilman
Descent | Sarah Uram
The Cartography of Uncertainty | Amy Goldmacher
The Rules | Maggie Light
Lifting Trucks | Nina Willow
Artwork
Red Pepper | Lynn Karlin
Madame Devereaux | Allegra Kuhn