The Brussels Review: Spring 25
Summary
Front cover: Philip A. Zimmermann, "Untitled", 2022, acrylic on canvas, 190 × 170 cm · Back cover: Sasha Ferré, "And the sun can never burn through it", 2023, oil stick and tempera on canvas, 200 × 160 cm
The largest poetry gathering in the archive — sixteen poets, one poem each, from Buffy Aakaash's Hollister Hill to Zilin Wu's Wilderness. Fifteen stories follow, opening with K.P. Taylor's Miss Mittens, and three essays begin the issue, among them Atieh Asadollahi's Enchanted, a Brussels ghost story told on a bicycle.
Nonfiction
Atieh Asadollahi: Enchanted
Thomas Behan: Plans for the Past
Elizabeth Cohen: The Music of Snow
Poetry
Buffy Aakaash: Hollister Hill
Connie Johnstone: Early Doubts
Matthew Gulley: Coney Island Return
Oz Hardwick: Leaving the Mechanical City
Julian Kanagy: Last Night
Liana Kapelke-Dale: Paris Syndrome
Arsh Kaur: The Dying Plant
L. Ward Abel: All Cloud-to-Cloud
L. Lois: Baker's Dozen Brightness
Christina E. Petrides: Showoffs
Zack Rogow: Wisdom of the Automat
Shaun Day Woods: The mouse
Gerry Stewart: Mother and Child Burial
Scott Stewart: Proof of being dressed in white linen
Nisha: Every Home is Haunted
Zilin Wu: Wilderness
Fiction
K.P. Taylor: Miss Mittens
Timothy Riley: A Gold Sky Arching
Bryan Oliver: The Deluge
Vishwas R. Gaitonde: Open Secrets
SP Singh: The Bridge
Steven P. Unger: Rose Nicaud: New Orleans
Ankit Raj Ojha: The Boys Who Lived
Anthoney Dimos: Funeral Games
J. Alan Nelson: Human begets puppy
Nadim Silverman: Thursday Night Disappointment
Elhassan Ait Elamal: Ports of Pain
Mohammed Khalaf: Better Than It Should Be
Es-said Skhiri: Parallel Universe
Eric Morlock: Bovine Scenes
Kevin Joseph Reigle: As the Crowd Roars