CONTENTS
POETRY
PRAGEETA SHARMA
Abstract Expressionist
JENNIFER PERRINE
Tell Us How Your Lived Experience Qualifies You for This Position
MICHAEL BAZZETT
The Final Bit
JOSIE VALDEZ
She Was Sleeping
JAY AQUINAS THOMPSON
Stained Altars
LEWIS MEYERS
The Milkweed Diet
CHELSEA DINGMAN
Lie Against Time
DARE WILLIAMS
When Momma Was a Moth
RUTH AWAD
The Happiest People on Earth
STEVEN PAN
Tourist
CARLY JOY MILLER
Adoration Fable
History of Redemption
VANDANA KHANNA
[The suitors say I am wasted]
JASWINDER BOLINA
Second City Autumnal
ROSA CASTELLANO
A Slouch of Red in the Road
KALANI PADILLA
A note on ancestorship
Letter to Es Nin Paks
HAOLUN XU
American Jewelry
IAN U. LOCKABY
Benny the Robin
MONIKA CASSEL
Proving Ground
MICHELLE PEÑALOZA
Mga Manananggal Speak
JOSHUA BURTON
As I Grace Myself into a Rephrasing Freedom
CLAIR DUNLAP
How to paint a landscape
SUSAN RICH
Light Ledger
ELIZABETH DIEBOLD
Topography of Knowing
DERRICK AUSTIN
Diary: First Day of Spring
ASHLEY KUNSA
Ballast
ALICIA MOUNTAIN
Matter
POLLEY POER
Labor Day
SARAH STOCKTON
To the young poets writing about old people’s bodies
CHRIS SANTIAGO
America, I’m Putting My Signed Stomach to the Glass
BILL HOLLANDS
i want to be clear
I Stayed Quiet
DANIELLA TOOSIE-WATSON
God is Dog Spelled Backwards
BRENDAN CONSTANTINE
Washed Up
NATALIE SHAPERO
Spacewalk
JESSICA CUELLO
Biocenosis
Reading How Zeus’ Daughter Mixed Nepenthe Into the Wine After the War
ANNA LENA PHILLIPS BELL
Productive
RACHEL BETESH
Just from Standing
INDIA LENA GONZÁLEZ
we n’ de ya ho
PATRICK DONNELLY
On First Looking into Bate’s Biography of Keats
Spell Check
JOAN KWON GLASS
petals
HERA NAGUIB
Exit Stamp
TACEY M. ATSITTY
Nayéé’ Goes to Therapy
NYREE ABRAHAMIAN
Unnaming
Winter Sowing
MOLLY SPENCER
Notes on Confluence
NIK MOORE
Nocturne
EMILY HARMAN
Danbury, WI
KINSALE DRAKE
August
EMMA AYLOR
Glass Basket
SEBASTIÁN H. PÁRAMO
Provisional
LUKE JOHNSON
To the therapist who says it’s time to move on
CATE LYCURGUS
Dear R,
AUSTIN PARK WARD
Sick in Seoul (Light Pollution)
Memory Seen through Gauze
MICHAEL J. GRABELL
Maraschino
HEIDI SEABORN
Most Evenings
LAUREN SHAPIRO
Touch
SAMANTHA MARTIN-BIRD
siri
MAG GABBERT
Failed Essay on Eros
FEATURES
CROSSINGS
KIM HYSESOON (trans. Jack Jung)
Three Poems
SPOTLIGHT
MATTHEW KELSEY & KEITH LEONARD
on Forgetting
PRESENTING
YI WEI
Outlines
HOW TO
RUBEN QUESADA
Bloom
I CALL IT JOY
ARTWORK
MICHELLE PEÑALOZA
FI JAE LEE