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IN THIS ISSUE
Editors’ Note
MARISA P. CLARK The Deer Hunter
QUINTON OKORO katabases [Audio feature] / 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 [Audio feature] / What I Wish We’d Done
MT VALLARTA Neighborhood Tour
ARAH KO Magpie 까치 / Fiddleback [Read our Interview with Arah & listen to her read her poems]
EYLIE SASAJIMA H Mart *BNP [Audio feature] / revelation for the west
EBEN E. B. BEIN Namesake [Audio feature]
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 *BSL
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 [Audio feature]
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 [Audio feature] / 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 *BNP / Come, Little Hunger [Read our interview with Nathan & listen to him read his poems]
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 *BSL [Audio feature]
FRED VOSS A Foreman from Texas Wrote this Poem
ERIC MACHAN HOWD Glitter Bomb
RICHARD COLLINS Remembering Reibin / Wind Flows Over Stone Nest Dojo *BSL
MICHAEL GARRIGAN In Last Light We Drive to the River *BSL
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
*BNP Nominated for Best New Poets