CONTENTS
POETRY
ALFREDO AGUILAR
Agua Caliente Springs
Litany
HANNAH VANDERHART
My Love Snakes the Shower Drain to Keep My Feet from Standing Water
JENNY MOLBERG
Late to the Party
CRAIG VAN ROOYEN
Things You Can Hear in the Dark
ELLEN HAGAN
To the hawk that circled J. Hood Park—
To the sleeping woman in Cindy’s bakery on the corner of Saint Nicholas & 179th St.
NATHAN McCLAIN
The World is Full
HOA NGUYEN
Why This Haunted Middle and Door Hung with Haunted Girl Bones
CECILY PARKS
A Private Well
Collected Typos
JOHN ALLEN TAYLOR
Already
CARRIE FOUNTAIN
Nothing Is Holy
Lullaby After Bedtime
DAVID MOOLTEN
Orion
LUIZA FLYNN-GOODLETT
Genealogy
SARA RYAN
Nesting Material
T. DALLAS SAYLOR
Float
KEITH TAYLOR
Going In
ANNA V. Q. ROSS
What Is the Poem
DUSTIN PEARSON
Watching My Brother Sleep in Hell, a Memory Reminds Me This Too Is Bonding
Pain on a Soft Surface
MINNIE BRUCE PRATT
Cedar, Arbor Vitae
The Ledge
LUTHER HUGHES
Inside the River, I Covet
DAVID KRUGER
Killer Sonnet
DAN CHU
Night Dive
RON RIEKKI
Five Myths about the Saami People
GREG WRENN
Ode without Coordinates
Childlessness
EMMY NEWMAN
In Smaller Nights
JOE WILKINS
The Bridge
This Is a Map
KUNJANA PARASHAR
It Is Allergy Season and God Has Harrumphed a Giant Cough Upon Us
On Smelling
BLANCA VARELA
(trans. Lisa Allen Ortiz & Sara Daniele Rivera)
Two Poems
ALYSSA OGI
Three Denials at Sanjusangendo
Birthrights
JEFF KNORR
Sometimes You’re Still in the House
WILLIAM ARCHILA
Because the Trees Are Disappearing
Civil Engineering
KAMILAH AISHA MOON
African Americans in Slavery, Photographs: 1847-1863
HENRIETTA GOODMAN
Mr. No More Cowboy Hat
THOMAS CARRIGAN
Once More the Night Green Lilacs
W. TODD KANEKO
Waiting for Colonoscopy
My Father Writes Poems
RACHAEL INCIARTE
case studies in heartbreak
JULIANA GRAY
A Partial Catalog of Things I Used to Be Able to Do
COLETTE COSNER
No Hands
DEREK SHEFFIELD
Stewards at Work
MICHAEL KLEBER-DIGGS
After they left
Prestidigitation
NATASHA RAO
For a Gray Page
LEE UPTON
After Blogging about Shirley Jackson’s
“The Lottery”
ESSAYS & REVIEWS
SHARA LESSLEY
“Estranged, Changed, Suspended”: My Path to Plath
RAYE HENDRIX
Sound We Can See: What Deafness Can Teach Us About Listening Like a Poem
KATRINA ROBERTS
On Kathryn Neurnberger’s Rue
FEATURES
CROSSINGS
MARIANA SPADA
(trans. Robin Myers)
Five Poems
HOW TO
JAN-HENRY GRAY
Make Do with Leftovers & Lemons
I CALL IT JOY
ARTWORK
ALISON BREMNER
KATRINA ROBERTS