Winter & Spring 2025

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

  88Ra :: Halo Undarkness My ( :: Glowing End ::)

• 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