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IN THIS ISSUE
Editors’ Note
SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY Hanzi in the Rain *PP
SAGE RAVENWOOD Leonard Peltier’s Plea for Clemency *PP / Less Godlike *BSL
ANDREW PAYTON Not My Country *PP [Audio feature]
ALLY ANG Against Beauty *PP / After “Prolonged Grief Disorder” Was Added to DSM-5 *BNP [Audio feature]
DANNY SHOT Crossfire
JULIÁN MARTINEZ Mexican Purgatory / How many tongues of love inside
NORASHIQIN TOH Careless / Dinnertime Elegy
SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Praise of Moon Cakes
R.S. MENGERT The Last Family Photo
TIFFANY SMALLS Don’t You Wrap Your Hair?
PETER SAGNELLA Blind Spot
ALFONSO ZAPATA The Ghazal I Asked For / Leaving My Abuelos’ Basement, Christmas Eve 2022 / Leaving My Abuelos’ Basement, Christmas Eve 2015 [Audio feature]
WALLY SWIST The Farm
MEGAN MERCHANT & LUKE JOHNSON Crown Shyness [Audio feature] / But what about the carpenter ant, [Audio feature]
JENNIFER REESER Mo’yatcun’ne / Sikyatki
JONATHAN DIAZ Oecopetalum mexicanum
CLAUDIA BUCKHOLTS Serving Spirits
ANDREW SCHELLING Cold Stone Wheel / Hadimba Temple / Far to the South a River
RICHARD COLLINS Shoreless River / Petrichor
BUNKONG TUON Letter to My Unborn Son *BSL [Audio feature]
NATALIE MARINO Yesterday
ELIANA CHOW Bamboo Girl *BSL
ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT I Am What Happens When Nature Has Its Way *BSL [Audio feature]
FRANCESCA LEADER The Age of Ice Women / Troll Baby
CASSANDRA WHITAKER I ate the wolf and the wolf / Swallowed by the Wolf / Queerness is Infinite [Audio feature]
KAILEE PEDERSEN Primavera [Audio feature]
JO ANGELA EDWINS A Tired Woman Washes Dishes *BSL
DARE WILLIAMS My Lover Watches Their Lover Die *PP [Audio feature]
DAN GROTE A Life’s Work
NADINE HITCHINER Love in Particular
TONY GLOEGGLER Here on Earth
CASS GARISON Meditation on Longing [Audio feature]
DAN MURPHY The Persistence of Memory
ROBERT OKAJI Until / Santa Fe
ROBERT L. PENICK You Cannot Say These Things Were Not Done for You / Odd People with Little Dogs / Pertinence
SHARON DENMARK The Reading / The Hitchhiker
FRED VOSS As the Billionaires have Cocktail Parties on Their Balconies in the Hills
ALEX TRETBAR Ballad from a Subsidized Bedroom
ALISON PELEGRIN Multitudes
KATHRYN BRATT-PFOTENHAUER Tudors / A Study in Gray [Audio Feature]
COOPER YOUNG Naked / Behind the Buddha *BSL 2024 / No Other Life
*BNP Nominated for Best New Poets
*BSL Nominated for Best Spiritual Literature
*PP Nominated for Pushcart Prize
