ALASDAIR MAC MHAIGHSTIR ALASDAIR
Sea-Incitement
(translation by Taylor Strickland)
Let us push out this ship’s dark
perfection of yew.
Author: Gabi Graceffo
ALASDAIR MAC MHAIGHSTIR ALASDAIR
The Poet as Shadow-Homer, as Odyssean Penelope
“Like much-named Penelope, we in the dark hours [like as not] ravel our hatch-worked images. Cunning as Penelope, we must resist, persist, outwit the bully / suitors of our worldâs strictures, its demands.”
SEBASTIĂN H. PĂRAMO
Everyone Said Nature Was Healing
Nightjars once called us later & later.
CHRIS SANTIAGO
School of Athens
Because we missed the Raphaels the first time
MAYA JEWELL ZELLER
A Week Past the Leaked Supreme Court Draft Regarding Roe V. Wade
A man told me I should split
my poem in two
AHN JOO CHEOL
An Eating Scene
(translation by Jeanine Walker & Shim Jaekwan)
When the streetlamp roundly pushing up the darkness was 10 won
KAREN AN-HWEI LEE
THE QUIET COUNSEL OF PEARS
After the storm, the world is still there, a flash
JAY AQUINAS THOMPSON
7: Spearlike (from LIKE HONEY)
rosemary bough in breeze a lady in sunglasses / it’s easy to get married
Damaged and Open: On Sara Moore Wagner’s Hillbilly Madonna
“Struggle against the patriarchy is coupled with a critique of the faith that has made itself an organic part of Wagnerâs Appalachiaâas much a part of the region as its animals, trees, and plants.” -John McCarthy
GRACE MACNAIR
Voice
Your hands! Not even the willow in its silver budding
has touched me like that.