Issue 2

Cover art by Koss: “I made this piece during a time of grief. At the time, I didn’t know why the janitor and elephant needed gas masks. Only that they did.”

Editor’s Note

Side A

1. Slow Apocalypse: A Conversation with Mary South

2. Afterimage: Artwork by Koss

3. Two Poems by Michael Schmeltzer

4. In Which I Try to Save the World from Total Destruction Through the Power of Art by Emily Mitchell

Side B

5. I Don’t Think There is Anything Near or Far that Could Ever Fix This: a Photo Essay by Joumana Altallal

6. Mexico Attacks by M.G. Moscato 

7. Dog Tar by Trevor Shikaze

8. Mise-en-Scène by Suphil Lee Park 

Issue Soundtrack

This issue of MQR Mixtape has a soundtrack: “Seas and Skies” by William Greene.

Greene: “This is a song about sailing around the world after the apocalypse.”

William Greene is a teacher and youth worker living in Charleston, SC. His poetry appears in the current issue of the Seneca Review. You can listen to more of his music on Spotify.