CONTENTS
POETRY
MIRA ROSENTHAL
Bluff
EVAN BAUER
Mitsuya in California
RACHEL EDELMAN
Dungeness
Swatch Test
EMILY SPENCER
Park
ALICIA MOUNTAIN
Ultralight
ERIN MARIE LYNCH
Knife
SHELBY HANDLER
For Orphans
ANTONIO LÓPEZ
from Gentefication
CAROLYN OROSZ
Honeymoon Road-trip across the American West
KATE LINDROOS
Doppler
LAURA McKEE
The Route
LUCIEN DARJEUN MEADOWS
Mile 25—
Two Months Before
CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN
Negative Theology
Owl Theology
JOSHUA NGUYEN
I Fall in Love with the Scientist behind the Mask
CHARIF SHANAHAN
Control
MARGOT KAHN
Nordstrom lingerie department, 10 a.m. Thursday
On a spring Sunday, I forget my wedding ring
ALBERT ABONADO
A Pile of Poems is Called a Negation
GIBSON FAY-LeBLANC
Weasel Mobile
JANE WONG
Bestiary, Balm
REBEKAH DENISON HEWITT
Unicorn Soul
ERIN HOOVER
Maternity exhibit in an election year
Maternity exhibit as the singularity
BK FISCHER
Perceptive
Apperception
MIA KANG
Syncope at the Clit Club
ROBERT CORDING
Bobcat
A Pair of Sandhill Cranes
ELIZABETH VIGNALI
House of My Mother
If Gravity Stops Working
MARILYN HACKER
Ghazal: صُلّخت [an escape route]
PHILLIP B. WILLIAMS
Final Poem as Nocturne into Aubade, or Sonrise
AMY LAWLESS
Irritable Reaching
2021 JAMES WELCH PRIZE
WINNERS
BRENDAN SHAY BASHAM
Do Not Drink from the Tailing Pond
KENZIE ALLEN
Oskʌnu•tú
FINALISTS
MELANIE MERLE
DownRiver
ABIGAIL CHABITNOY
Some Study History
KALEHUA KIM
Ghosts/̒Uhane
SHELBI FITZPATRICK
Spots
ANNIE WENSTRUP
My Heart is a Rube Goldberg Machine
RACHEL JOHNSON
Elegy for Shidá’í, My Uncle
JOSIE VALDEZ
Say the Words
MICHAEL WASSON
Everything We Ever Meant When We Said Sky
ESSAYS
LOIS WELCH
I’m Still Here: James Welch & Living Counter-Narrative
CEDAR SIGO
Becoming Visible
FEATURES
CROSSINGS
SUN TZU-PING (trans. Nicholas Wong)
Four Poems
HOW TO
ANGELA NARCISO TORRES
Stitch Words into Worlds
I CALL IT JOY
FEATURED ARTIST
STELLA NALL