CONTENTS
POETRY
CARLIE HOFFMAN
The Townspeople Contemplate Eurydice
ISAAC PICKELL
We demand options that taste like movement
AISHVARYA ARORA
Mr. Time
I am not trying to be a man how
MRITYUNJAY MOHAN
Trans Anatomy in Sacrilegious Terms
JENNY QI
Cat’s Cradle
BO HEE MOON
Letters to Omma—Ceremony of Mercy
KATHY FAGAN
Samhain
Alone and Not in the Belle Époque
STEPHANIE BURT & MARA HAMPSON
Little Wobbly Wolf Cubs Their Whole Lives
JOHN OKRENT
A Thrill
The River Road
ARAH KO
In the Year of Peace
Whatever We Began As We Became Something Else
NOAH FALCK
Unknown History
A Face in the Crowd in the Photograph in My Wallet in the City of Complete Strangers
CHENGRU HE
Postcards in Jueju
LAUREN MACKINNON
Passerine
JENNIFER FRANKLIN
On the Day We Had Tickets for the Rothko Retrospective
SHARA LESSLEY
Vision: Alicia Alonso
LAETITIA KEOK
Good Grief
Abecedarian Against Time
SHABNAM PIRYAEI
sun scrapes Europe from the caravan of kindergartner ghosts sun remembers everything
AMANDA AUCHTER
They’re Cutting Down Our Bamboo
MARGOT KAHN
Wild One
Rimrock
RAJIV MOHABIR
New York Floriography
MALGORZATA LEBDA
(trans. Mira Rosenthal)
Geography
LUIZA FLYNN-GOODLETT
Prayer
MATTHEW TUCKNER
Mimesis
Mimesis
MARTA SANZ
(trans. Sam Krieg)
[From the wall sprouts, . . . ]
LAURA DA’
The Fort Conundrum
EMET EZELL
Another Flight through Widowed Grass
ROSEBUD BEN-ONI
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MARIE LUNDQUIST
(trans. Miriam Akervall)
Untitled excerpt from Astrakanerna (The Garden of the Dead)
CARLING MCMANUS
Bathing on Sunday
ANJA MEI-PING KUIPERS
Story with My Mother as Sea Creature
On the Phone, My Mother Tells Me
TOPAZ WINTERS
Meet Me at Our Spot
LEONA SEVICK
Coriolis Illusion
SAM HERSCHEL WEIN
Ready, Set, Arugula!
JEFFREY MORGAN
Hold on I’m Trying to De-Puff My Face
PALOMA CHEN
(trans. Julia Conner)
I Want
JUJ E LEPE
Laundry Day
Portrait of a Daughter
DARIUS ATEFAT-PECKHAM
Salt-Soaked & Rinsed Clean Ghazal
Cry-Baby Ghazal
JULIA KOLCHINSKY
Why write another poem about the moon?
SARAH BROWNING
We could not kill the cat–
D. A. POWELL
Catwoman’s Clause
Boy Grows Up
SA WHITLEY
Caring for Fuchsia
DANIEL PHAIR
On the Collection and Display of Certain Species of Moth
Valletta
KALEHUA KIM
Dearest/Visiting New York City/Your Feet
QUINTON OKORO
the fog at three a.m. as I thought about ending things
JENNE HSIEN PATRICK
Rice
MAGDALENA ARIAS VÁSQUEZ
Camera Obscura
Camera Lucida
OMAR RAMADAN
And they fed the sea first
JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL
Gold Cloud
AMOGHA
Poem upon the Phonetic Map of the Mouth
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FEATURES
CROSSINGS
DANTE ALIGHIERI & CRISTOFORO LANDINO
(trans. Clare Louise Harmon)
Four Cantos
IN PROGRESS
NANCY HUGGETT
Caregiver as . . .
CORTNEY LAMAR CHARLESTON
It’s Important I Remember
PRESENTING
DEVI SASTRY
Place Name: Kozhikode
HOW TO
V. PENELOPE PELIZZON
Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road
I CALL IT JOY
ARTWORK
LUKAS & ZOË PHELAN