ISSUE THIRTEEN
Family Gathering



POETRY

ADRIENNE RAPHEL
Juniper, Neptune, Minerva, and Momus
The Travelers and the Sea

TALVIKKI ANSEL
House

LUCI ARBUS-SCANDIFFIO
Book of Zippers

MIHO NONAKA
蝶 / Butterfly
Flowers & Acorns

ISH KLEIN
Old World Rites
This Sand Our Spaceship

LESLE LEWIS
Publication

MATTHEW KLANE
The Coming This Fall

ELEANOR STANFORD
Where Did the Handsome Beloved Go,
Rumi, Please Tell Me Where

LAUREN SHAPIRO
I help my father search for a grave
How many partial deaths

ANGELO MAO
When I Was Nine

RIVKA CLIFTON
The Missing Parents

BRIDGET O’BERNSTEIN
The Flying Game

ROBERT FERNANDEZ
Rehearsal (Arthur [Total Eclipse, 1995 dir.
Agnieszka Holland])
Total Eclipse, 1995 dir. Agnieszka Holland

DEIRDRE LOCKWOOD
Thoughts and Prayers

KYRA SPENCE
The Numb

ALLAN PETERSON
Reminding

GILES GOODLAND
The Wind
Properhood

MARA BENEWAY
My Mother Named Me Rachel

ALEXIS QUINLAN
Come Live With / Be My Love / Will All
the Travel Do
Boys

JULIÁN DELACRUZ
Eurydice
Eurydice’s Sentence

GAVIN YUAN GAO
A Peach Is a Temple

MACKENZIE POLONYI
Burying Porcelain Horses

MARTHA MCCOLLOUGH
As Far as This World Goes

CHELSEA DINGMAN
Schizochronotopia

JAMES CIANO
The Return Stroke

ANNA LEAHY
Queen in the Mirror

COLE SWENSEN
Reflections
Tree and Tree

BRIAN JOHNSON
Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889)

STEPHEN GIBSON
On a Wax Copy of Degas’s Woman
Bathing in a Round Tub
On a Wax Copy of Degas’s Woman
Washing in a Tub

NAN COHEN
From the Lost Notebook 2
From the Lost Notebook 10
From the Lost Notebook 20

MARGARET RONDA
How to Be Far

TOM THOMPSON
February

HEATHER SELLERS
Inside Out

JOHN HODGEN
Silver Mercury

STEPHANIE BURT
Raccoons
The Backpack

WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
Film Script in A-flat Major
City of Paints

CATE PEEBLES
Still Life with Wreckage & Strawberries
Proceed to the Route

CHRISTOPHER KONDRICH
Kestrels Find the Flare of Methane

HUMBERTO AK’ABAL
If Today Were Tomorrow
(translated from Spanish by
Michael Bazzett)          

WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS
Twined
It Was

MARK ANTHONY CAYANAN
Ecstasy Facsimile

ANZHELINA POLONSKAYA
Take Me to Stavanger
An Attempt at a Crane Elegy
(translated from Russian by
Andrew Wachtel)

JOSÉ A. ALCÁNTARA
Rite of Return

RICK BAROT
To J.

REBECCA VALLEY
I Wake Up

JENNIFER HASEGAWA
The Fisher-Price of Love

STELLA WONG
Manifold

TRACY FUAD
We Need to Think About Things a Little
More Radically

SUMAN CHHABRA
Wow

STEPHANIE CAWLEY
Brutal Fiction

KATE O’DONOGHUE
The World’s More Full of Weeping

ADRIENNE SU
Arachne
Diaspora

CARLOS PIERA
[Here, too, there were simple elements]
Lower Ithaca
(translated from Spanish by
Roberta Quance)

CAROLANN CAVIGLIA MADDEN
Ritual Loss
Contagious Magic

KEETJE KUIPERS
Polished Rough

PETER LEIGHT
Invisible City

MATTHEW SIEGEL
Tuesday
How Am I Doing?

CASSANDRA WHITAKER
Wrestling with the Wolf
On the Four Corners of the World

RACHEL BETESH
From These Come All the Others

SUSANNAH SHARPLESS
Of Exceptional Size, Strength, or Power

ANNE WALDMAN
Writing on Water with Articular Glyphs
Seed Syllable
Sunspots for Venus: Revolutionary Letter
#2023 for Diane di Prima

JULIE DANHO
After the Call from My Husband’s
Doctor, We Watched Will Ferrell
Movies

DEIRDRE O’CONNOR
Nocturne Arriving at a Stone Pier

RICHARD ROBBINS
The Truce

GENEVIEVE PAYNE
The Certainties

G.C. WALDREP
Saint Sauveur
Grievance

KATHLEEN ROONEY
Small

ERIC TYLER BENICK
Negated Sestina

JORRELL WATKINS
Sugar

GABRIEL FRIED
Prayer Triolet
Parenting Triolet

STACIE CASSARINO
June Landscape with Child

LAURA CRONK
Good Mother
Forty-Four

DANI PUTNEY
Footnotes to Marriage by
Correspondence

WILLIE LIN
Provenance

BECKA MARA MCKAY
Origin Story
Pity the Mockingbird

SARAH LAO
Transmigration to the End of the
Ming Dynasty

JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ
The Insomniac
I Wasn’t Lionel Messi

OLIVIA SIO TSE
This Platinum Fandom

ASHA FUTTERMAN
In a Cave Where Something Once
Happened

RADHA MARCUM
Speaking to America
Snow
Visiting Auschwitz

STEPHANIE YUE DUHEM
Drift

ERICA EHRENBERG
At the Edge of a Transition
Internal Clock

JAKE GOLDWASSER
Griddle
Arjun Sits Weaponless in His Chariot

STEFANIA GOMEZ
Elegy: Log Cabin

DAVID GORIN
War Story

LAUREN CAMP
On Shelter

STEFANIA HEIM
I did not commune

KATHLEEN HEIL
Welcome to the Situation
[Mauerpark, Berlin]
Welcome to the Situation
[Schillerkiez, Berlin]
Welcome to the Situation
[Berliner Philharmonie]

PAUL GIBBONS
My Brother’s Sentences

ALICIA MOUNTAIN
Cowboy

DAN GUTSTEIN
The Key in My Pocket Existed Me

ANDREW KOCH
Stargazer
My Child Hands Me a Rock That Gives
Me Divine Powers

JEFF WHITNEY
Things I Can Remember
We Plan Ahead So We Don’t Have to Do
Anything Now

DAN WRIGGINS
Tying Your Shoe

MICHAEL HURLEY
Why We Almost Didn’t

ALESSANDRA LYNCH
The Speaker Shares a Story with One
Voice

MEGAN SNYDER-CAMP
What Do You Call a Group of
Black Holes?
Shelter Care

JENNIFER FRANKLIN
The Girl Who Had Never Been Born

MRB CHELKO
First Day of Third Grade Thumbs Up Rain
Delays
Turn Up Your Headphones This Commute
Is a Roast

CAROLINE FALZONE
A Collection of Leaves

SYDNEY LEA
Maytime

TRAVIS MOSSOTTI
The Empty Cube
Dinner with My Spiritual Advisor at
Peacemaker

JENNIFER ATKINSON
Among the Day’s Ephemera
If There’s Rain Make Rain Your Dwelling
Place

IAIN HALEY POLLOCK
[Weather of summer and weekend blur]

HEATHER HAMILTON
Revisionist Sonnet
Aftersmoke

DARIN CICCOTELLI
Pellucid Flags of the Color Guard
Soon

AMELIA SAGE VAN DONSEL
April in Cambridge

MARY ANN SAMYN
Trains at Night, to Begin With
If Something Should Happen

GALE MARIE THOMPSON
The Dialect Remembers
My fish are living forever

LEAH UMANSKY
The Rain, Life, and Other Things

KARY WAYSON
June 3, 2022

EMMALEA RUSSO
Thin Sonnet
Thick Sonnet

LAURA READ
Appearance vs. Reality

EMILY ROSKO
The Lengths

CORINNE WOHLFORD MASON
Housatonic

FICTION

RACHEL LYON
The Fragrant Conscious World

BENJAMIN NIESPODZIANY
Uncle Time

JUSTIN NOGA
Wolf

ANNIE DELMEDICO
Delicacy
Family Reunion

SALLY DEWIND
Wild and Strong and Completely Fearless

DOUGLAS W. MILLIKEN
Fire Grouse & Egg

NONFICTION

JOANNA LULOFF
My Mother, In Fragments (Five Senses)

SHANE SEELY
The Problem with Ghosts

ANGELA BALL
Snap Me

WILLIAM WOOLFITT
Þ, the Letter Thorn

SARAH BOXER
Alice Is a Looking Glass

FILM

GUSTAVO PÉREZ FIRMAT
Trouble in Paradise: Another Look Into
The Shop Around the Corner

INTERVIEW

ANNE WALDMAN in conversation with SANDRA SIMONDS

COVER ART

VIPOO SRIVILASA