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