POETRY

PRAGEETA SHARMA

Abstract Expressionist

JENNIFER PERRINE

Tell Us How Your Lived Experience Qualifies You for This Position

MICHAEL BAZZETT

The Final Bit

JOSIE VALDEZ

She Was Sleeping

JAY AQUINAS THOMPSON

Stained Altars

LEWIS MEYERS

The Milkweed Diet

CHELSEA DINGMAN

Lie Against Time

DARE WILLIAMS

When Momma Was a Moth

RUTH AWAD

The Happiest People on Earth

STEVEN PAN

Tourist

CARLY JOY MILLER

Adoration Fable

History of Redemption

VANDANA KHANNA

[The suitors say I am wasted]

JASWINDER BOLINA

Second City Autumnal

ROSA CASTELLANO

A Slouch of Red in the Road

KALANI PADILLA

A note on ancestorship

Letter to Es Nin Paks

HAOLUN XU

American Jewelry

IAN U. LOCKABY

Benny the Robin

MONIKA CASSEL

Proving Ground

MICHELLE PEÑALOZA

Mga Manananggal Speak

JOSHUA BURTON

As I Grace Myself into a Rephrasing Freedom

CLAIR DUNLAP

How to paint a landscape

SUSAN RICH

Light Ledger

ELIZABETH DIEBOLD

Topography of Knowing

DERRICK AUSTIN

Diary: First Day of Spring

ASHLEY KUNSA

Ballast

ALICIA MOUNTAIN

Matter

POLLEY POER

Labor Day

SARAH STOCKTON

To the young poets writing about old people’s bodies

CHRIS SANTIAGO

America, I’m Putting My Signed Stomach to the Glass

BILL HOLLANDS

i want to be clear

I Stayed Quiet

DANIELLA TOOSIE-WATSON

God is Dog Spelled Backwards

BRENDAN CONSTANTINE

Washed Up

NATALIE SHAPERO

Spacewalk

JESSICA CUELLO

Biocenosis

Reading How Zeus’ Daughter Mixed Nepenthe Into the Wine After the War

ANNA LENA PHILLIPS BELL

Productive

RACHEL BETESH

Just from Standing

INDIA LENA GONZÁLEZ

we n’ de ya ho

PATRICK DONNELLY

On First Looking into Bate’s Biography of Keats

Spell Check

JOAN KWON GLASS

petals

HERA NAGUIB

Exit Stamp

TACEY M. ATSITTY

Nayéé’ Goes to Therapy

NYREE ABRAHAMIAN

Unnaming

Winter Sowing

MOLLY SPENCER

Notes on Confluence

NIK MOORE

Nocturne

EMILY HARMAN

Danbury, WI

KINSALE DRAKE

August

EMMA AYLOR

Glass Basket

SEBASTIÁN H. PÁRAMO

Provisional

LUKE JOHNSON

To the therapist who says it’s time to move on

CATE LYCURGUS

Dear R,

AUSTIN PARK WARD

Sick in Seoul (Light Pollution)

Memory Seen through Gauze

MICHAEL J. GRABELL

Maraschino

HEIDI SEABORN

Most Evenings

LAUREN SHAPIRO

Touch

SAMANTHA MARTIN-BIRD

siri

MAG GABBERT

Failed Essay on Eros