Summer & Fall 2025

Poetry

• ANTHONY THOMAS LOMBARDI

  on Whitney Houston’s acceptance speech at the 2001 BET Awards & why i pray in the dark

• KAREN AN-HWEI LEE

  Song of the Black Sesame

• RICHELLE BUCCILLI

  Election Year

• PETER NATHANIEL MALAE

  Two Poems

• JENNIFER JEAN

  Herring Cove

• COLETTE COSNER

  Sweet Cambium

• ELIZA ROTTERMAN

  I am a sun, my t-shirt wet with milk

• AMANDA SMELTZ

  Of Tending Alberelli

• SATI MOOKHERJEE

  This Work

• JANE ZWART

  Gratitude

• SETH ROSENBLOOM

  Project Mercury

• RHONI BLANKENHORN

  Power

• KENTON K. YEE

  Quake Drill

• MOLLY ZHU

  Tub O’ Beans

• DINA FOLGIA

  The Origami of Prions

• MICHELLE PHƯƠNG HỒ

  Two Poems

• JAYANT KASHYAP

  Incarnation

• J. MAE BARIZO

  Two Poems

• YAN AN

  (trans. Chen Du and Xisheng Chen)
  Discovery by a Mirror Image Researcher

• SCOTT HARNEY

  Letter to Hugo from Galleria Umberto I

• J. C. TALAMANTEZ

  First Came North

• EMILY SKAJA

  Death, For Beginners

• SOPHIA DAHLIN

  MFA or NYC or Fate

• NOME EMEKA PATRICK

  Two Poems

• ELISABETH PRESTON-HSU

  Our California Finding Fruit

• KATHRYN SAVAGE

  Fertile Day

• DIANA MARIE DELGADO

  Two Poems

• MAXINE SCATES

  Going Under

• BOBBY ELLIOTT

  We Hold Each Other in the Kitchen

• DAVID HERNANDEZ

  Self-Portrait with Magic Mushrooms

• MICHAEL WATERS

  To a Thief Who Died Young

• HANNAH KEZIAH AGUSTIN

  Another Shell Exploded in the Orlop, Setting Fire

• LUCIANA ARBUS-SCANDIFFIO

  Two Poems

• SHARA MCCALLUM

  Self-Portrait: Wishing

• CYRANA MARTIN

  Two Poems

• MATT DONOVAN

  Homer has instructed us in what measure the achievements of kings, and chiefs, and direful war might be written

• JENNY MOLBERG

  Two Poems

• RACHEL MENNIES

  Therapy Riddle

• SOURI AHMADLOU

  (trans. Morteza Dehghani)

  This line the starter

• ERIN COUGHLIN HOLLOWELL

  The history of the startle reflex

• JIM WHITESIDE

  In the Park

• RITA MOOKERJEE

  Those Who Came Before You? When You Hear Thunder, Hear It as Their Applause