ISSUE ONE
Inaugural Issue
POETRY
KIMBERLY GREY
System with a Letter at the Time of
Marriage
No System for Death
DOROTHEA LASKY
You Thought
Is It a Burden
JERICHO BROWN
Independence
SANDRA SIMONDS
Dear Diary,
EMILY KENDAL FREY
During That Time I Was Doing a Lot of
Deep Work with Women
ILIANA ROCHA
Tabloid for the Black Dahlia
Tabloid for JonBenét Ramsey
MONICA SOK
Strategy Against Dying
SAFIYA SINCLAIR
Autobiography
August in the Country of Another
KAVEH AKBAR
Desunt Nonnulla
Love Poem
Wild Pear Tree
SARAH ELAINE SMITH
Fat-Necked Singer
Memoir
MONTREUX ROTHOLTZ
Arm
ANDREW MICHAEL ROBERTS
Letters, Unwritten
LAURA KASISCHKE
One World at a Time
SARAH MESSER
Address to a Flowering Field
Stutter
JOSEPH MASSEY
On the Solstice
ZACH SAVICH
[Presently blackbirds]
ROBYN SCHIFF
The Action of Worms
RAE ARMANTROUT
Seams
Echoes
Refresh
SHANE MCCRAE
Carrie Kinsey's Letter to Theodore
Roosevelt
HAI-DANG PHAN
The Late Eddie Adams
RICK BAROT
Girl Carrying Ladder
SARAH BLAKE
The Body
How the Knots Made Me
Fire Mountain from the Deadly Journey
ALISON D. MONCRIEF BROMAGE
About Silence
WENDY XU
I Must Change My Form
CHRISTOPHER DEWEESE
Sucked Out
Soul to Squeeze
ERICA BERNHEIM
The Correct and Meaningful Installation of
Accurate Sprinklers and Terror
NOELLE KOCOT
Sense of Entitlement
Insomnia for a Month
ADAM CLAY
In Process Without You
LO KWA MEI-EN
The Diamond Rule
CAROLINA EBEID
Passerine
G.C. WALDREP
Neither Winter Nor a Golden Dust
Epithet
Testimony
DORA MALECH
as[k]
[ ]or[ ]ask[ ]
JESSICA FISHER
Speedwell
The Voice
YI LEI
from Love's Dance
translated from Chinese by Changtai Bi and Tracy K. Smith
JOHN GALLAHER
Sometimes I Find the Idea of the Sun
Expanding and Swallowing the Earth
Comforting, Sometimes It Makes Me
Sad
TED MATHYS
Night Bloom
Primate House
JEFFREY MCDANIEL
The Bottom of My Hourglass
My Adobe Bouquet
APRIL BERNARD
Across the Lawn
EMILY PÉREZ
Ambition
CAROLINE MANRING
One Day I Will Tell You What I Know
CYNTHIA CRUZ
The Porcelain Room
Self-Portrait with Face Covered in Tiny
White Diamonds
HENRY ISRAELI
The Life and Death Machine
FICTION
SABRINA ORAH MARK
Let's Do This Once More but This Time
With Feeling
ANNIE JOSEY
Jill
MICHAEL MARTONE
from The Collected Writings of Art Smith,
the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by
Michael Martone
REGINALD MCKNIGHT
Spit Shine
POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR
The Pariah and I
DAVID JAMES POISSANT
First Day
NONFICTION
DAVID STUART MACLEAN
Golden Friendship Club
URSULA VILLARREAL-MOURA
Le Divorce: Living (and Not Living) with
Diane Johnson
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
Timing
MARY PEELEN
Draw
DANA LEVIN
Double Exposure: On Reading Ted
Mathys; On Reading Wallace Stevens;
On Reading Them Together
FILM
J.M. TYREE
25 Love Lane: Robert Vas's Refuge England
INTERVIEWS
DOROTHEA LASKY in conversation
with MICHAEL DUMANIS
RAE ARMANTROUT in conversation with KATY LEDERER
COVER ART
SIMEN JOHAN
Untitled #32, from Until the Kingdom
Comes