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IN THIS ISSUE
Editors’ Note
MARISA P. CLARK The Deer Hunter
QUINTON OKORO katabases / what i witnessed as i prepared to return
SAGE RAVENWOOD Deer Woman (Ani Yunwitsandsdi)
LANA MATTHEWS SAIN We Go to the Cemetery to Buy a Burial Plot / What I Wish We’d Done
MT VALLARTA Neighborhood Tour
ARAH KO Magpie 까치 / Fiddleback
EYLIE SASAJIMA H Mart / revelation for the west
EBEN E. B. BEIN Namesake
REUBEN GELLEY NEWMAN Summer, 1980
BELLA ZHOU Ghazal for When You Lose Your Hong Kong Passport in Buenos Aires
SHARON WEIGHTMAN HOFFMANN I Sing the Body Acoustic
ARIEL FRANCISCO Dissociating While Staring Out the Window Just Before a Thunderstorm After Driving 15 Hours Home / Dissociating at My Desk at 2am
RICHARD VARGAS winter breakfast in Taos / morning coffee at Crema Café
MELISSA FITE JOHNSON I Got off the Plane and Everyone Was Dead
KEVIN RIDGEWAY The Night Pee-Wee Herman Died
SOPHIA TERAZAWA Suppose a Lute / [“Xa Xa Xa Lắm”]
VALERIE A. SMITH Curlie Raised the Blues / Carol Money Blue married in
CARLOS A. PITTELLA In case they run your license plate
JACK B. BEDELL “Stop & Frisk”
ERICA ABBOTT Decay / Portrait of a Wildfire Photographer in a Near-Apocalyptic World
STEPHANIE NIU Tropical School of Desire / Nocturnal Calligraphy / Leaving Lisbon
FRANCES KLEIN West of Sense, East of Reason
NAZIFA ISLAM Day by Day / Diminished, Day by Day / Assault and Battery
GABRIELA BITTENCOURT Labor Pains
LISA BELLAMY Consider the Gibbon
LISA ZIMMERMAN Elsewhere in Florida
LAURA VILLAREAL After the tornadoes touchdown / Frozen Food
ROBERT OKAJI Moon Cows / In the Batter’s Box
ROBERT L. PENICK Admirer / Pierrepoint
BRIAN HARMAN Aunt Virginia’s Guidance
JARED BELOFF Returning from the Dead to Wait at the DMV / Returning from the Dead to Attend a Poetry Reading
NATHAN XAVIER OSORIO Empty Stadiums / How to Cook a Wolf / Come, Little Hunger
JANE ZWART How to Eat Like a King / Solid Earth
SATI MOOKHERJEE Row Ends / Spirograph
ELISE THI TRAN Obituary for My Grandmother’s Name / Salt
DANIELLE SHANDIIN EMERSON Sometimes, she listened to his stories.
FAITH GÓMEZ CLARK Caretaker / The Seance
ELINOR ANN WALKER Ode to the Broken
MOLLIE O’LEARY Late Summer Study
FRED VOSS A Foreman from Texas Wrote this Poem
ERIC MACHAN HOWD Glitter Bomb
RICHARD COLLINS Remembering Reibin / Wind Flows Over Stone Nest Dojo
MICHAEL GARRIGAN In Last Light We Drive to the River
CHRISTINA DAUB Cardinal
MIRABAI (TRANS. ANDREW SCHELLING)acche mīṭhe cākh cākh / mero beṛo lagājyo pār
VANNIDA S. KOL Odyssey / Departure from Mondulkiri
KAILEE PEDERSEN Charnel
NOTES ON POEMS