POETRY

EMILY BROWN
Nightmares
These Days

ANAÏS DUPLAN

• from Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus

• [You waste]

  1. [Are you tired. Yes, everyday. You can write]

  2. [At the school dances, black and white girls shook on the floor.]

SARA SHEINER
Obituary

CHRISTOPHER DAVIS
To Have a Choice

AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL

• One-Star Reviews of the Taj Mahal

• One-Star Reviews of the Great Wall of China

ADAM DAY
Gift Horse

• MARY RUEFLE

• Chain of Flowers

• Maria and the Halls of Perish

• Dunce

• NATALIE SHAPERO

• Home, Followed by Tall Buildings

• Pennsylvania

NATALIE SCENTERS-ZAPICO
A Crown of Gold Snakes on My Head

CLAIRE WAHMANHOLM
Simon Says
Descent

KAREN RIGBY

• Portrait as Latin American Film Festival Entry No. 37

• Portrait as Matryoshka

SARAH ROSE NORDGREN
The Box My Mother Keeps
Movie Night

JUSTIN RUNGE
Hermitage

GARY MCDOWELL

• History Repeats Itself, as Seen from My Hotel Room Window

JAMES HOCH
Fayum Portrait

JENNIFER CONLON
Five Years Post-Deployment

ELIZABETH ONUSKO

• Fight-or-Flight Is an Imperfect Theory

• Ancestral Home Tour

• ALEXANDRIA HALL

• A Series of Losses

• In the Nets

SARAH MCCANN
Tragedy of the Sheep

GABRIELLE BATES

• Judas Goat

• Repentance Circles Itself Before Sleeping

MATT MILLER
Lieutenant Glahn’s Happy Twin

CYNTHIA CRUZ
Artaud
Innenwelt

CLAIRE HERO
Coyotl Escapes the Weeded Tongue

JESSICA FRANCK
Grapefruit

JENNIFER L. KNOX
Abby Got Out

PETER COOLEY
Spirit Dog Etc.

• Poem For Early Morning, Not an Aubade

CARLIE HOFFMAN
Mime in Anchorage Station
Postcard From Alaska

ERIKA MEITNER
Peregrinus

GHASSAN ZAQTAN

• Damascus 1986

• translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah

• Vehicles in the Dark

• translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah

• PHILLIP B. WILLIAMS

• Maskot #3: For the White Students Next Door Who say “Nigga” When Singing Along to Rap Songs Loud Enough for Me to Hear

NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER
Jamais Vu State of Mind
Gun Show at the Country Fairgrounds

ANJULI FATIMA RAZA KOLB

• Action and Contemplation

AMY LAWLESS
Dolphin Live Birth

KRYSTAL LANGUELL

• from Middlemarch Poems

  • June 17

  • June 20

  • July 21

RACHEL JEPSEN

• 60 Days

• In All Honesty

• KATIE WILLINGHAM Apocalypse/Utopia V

• Algorithm for procedurally Generated Defense Mechanisms

JAKE BAUER
Elegy in Regress

NOAH ELI GORDON

• Some Information About Forty Years of Existence

NICK FLYNN
What You Can’t Hear
Balcony

WILLIAM BREWER

• Relapse Psalm

• Today I Took You to Our Oxyana High School Reunion

• Oxyana, West Virginia

MEENA ALEXANDER
Refuge

DANNIEL SCHOONEBEEK
from Record
Only the Lonely

MARLIN M. JENKINS

• Portrait of Hansel and Gretel as Lost Black Family

BRUCE BEASLEY
At the Last Trump

DANA PRESCOTT
Rusted Razor

RICHIE HOFMANN
Die Krähe

ELIZABETH SCANLON
Whole

AMANDA NADELBERG

• from There Have Been Some Days I Didn’t Know Your Name

KIRSTEN IHNS
May I Propose You

• JOHN PAUL DAVIS

• Exit, Pursued by 175 People Performing a Romantic Bollywood Number

ALLY HARRIS
Skim

NAZIFA ISLAM
Without Sanctuary

CHELSEA DINGMAN

• Accident Report: After the Baby Dies at Birth

GARY JACKSON

• holoprosencephaly

  • (hŏl’ō-prŏs’ěn-sěf'əlē)

• DINA HARDY

• [Dear Motion Line, Dear Future Panel]

FICTION

SU-YEE LIN
A Flock, A Siege, A Murmuration

KATHLEEN ALCOTT
Reputation Management

ELIZABETH ELLEN

• The Woman Had Not Once Written About Ice

SORREL WESTBROOK
Etiquette for Ugly Girls

KIMBERLY GARZA
Uprooting

JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
Prepaid Reservation

ELISA ALBERT
The Alternative Weekly

MIRIAM COHEN
A Girl of a Certain Age

LEE UPTON
Visitation

NONFICTION

• BRANDON SHIMODA

• The Woman on the Stairs

• ELIZABETH KADETSKY

• Meditations on Survival

• JOAN CONNOR

• At the Circus

FILM

CLAIRE CRONIN

• Blue Light of the Screen: Notes on Horror

KRISTI MCKIM

• Glory Fades and Shines: On Rushmore and Empathy

INTERVIEW
 

• ELISA ALBERT in conversation with MONICA FERRELL

COVER ART

JAKUB GELTNER
Cultural Landscape