Volume 17 Number 1
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CONTENTS
POETRY
Eugenia Leigh
Two Poems
Jeff Whitney
Letter to Phil Beginning with Words from Jeanne Clark, My First Teacher Who Mattered
JP Grasser
A Shade of Green Unlike
Catherine Pierce
Just Because the Earth is Dying Doesn’t Mean I’ve Stopped Wanting Things
KB Brookins
Death by Retina or: ______ Goes for a Swim
Lloyd Wallace
Supermarket Soul
Sara Backer
Freight
Jenny Irish
Was
Bethany Schultz Hurst
“The executioner was very good”
Francisco Márquez
“In Isolation One Surely Becomes a God”
Rebecca Clarren
Press
Simon Shieh
Mythomania
Lory Bedikian
The pharmaceutical that killed my mother
Jen Currin
Late to Work and Listening
Leah Tieger
Arterial Fault
Laura Villareal
Biopsy
Jessica Lee
Two Poems
Esteban Ismael
Pterion
Karen Rigby
Lady with Glove
John A. Nieves
Sward and Coop
Collin Callahan
Songs Build Little Rooms in Time
Mara Lee Grayson
On Hypervigilance
Jordan Osborne
becoming
Jessica Yuan
Two Poems
S. D. Horvath
Atlas
Melissa Crowe
Thrownness
Emily Pérez
Outbound Flight
Kathleen Halme
Commonplace
Lynne Ellis
Like Teenagers
Jason Labbe
Hanging Bird
Emily Cinquemani
Sometimes I Want the Universe Small
Amy Smith
These Days
Griffin Brown
Ferragosto
Mike Seid
Green Door
Rage Hezekiah
Grasslands
Jenny Browne
If Bees Are Few
Richard Tillinghast
Emblems
Maxine Scates
The Serpents
Meredith Arena
Digging
Kevin McLellan
On the Other Side
Sydney Goggins
Walk at Dusk
Laura Cresté
Dead Horses
Prince Bush
Downlow
Rachel Castro
Ceremonies in the Day
Stacie Cassarino
The Living at Dead Creek
Sarah Koenig
Ander on the Airplane
Emma Depanise
Natural Flavors
Brett Hanley
The Candy Man
Jennifer Militello
the body
Dana Curtis
Dear Reader
Jeremiah Foster
Interior West
Lauren Brazeal Garza
Portage
Maya Jewell Zeller
Ekphrasonnet in Which You are Probably a Seven
Colby Cotton
Three Poems
Kerry Carnahan
Two Poems
Riley Ratcliff
Two Poems
Martha Silano
Love Song for the Anthropocene
Christopher Nelson
On Melancholy
J. A. Dela Cruz-Smith
The Jungle
Michael Mark
Dandelions
Ae Hee Lee
(Dis)ambiguation
2022 JAMES WELCH PRIZE
winners
finalists
Sean Sam
Wastelanding
Jessica Cohn
Here, in
Delaney Keshana
Assimulātum
Max Early
Sky Island
Tacey M. Atsitty
Ni’Hwiil Biihi Returns
FEATURES
Crossings
Nadja Küchenmeister (trans. Sabrina Black)
Three Poems
Presenting
E.A. Midnight
mundane objects: the evening walk
How To
Luther Hughes
Live
I Call It Joy
Hussain Ahmed
Rainbow
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