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Jacqueline Balderrama
Accountability for Your Blind Sheep
Somewhere Else in Texas
Daniel Bănulescu
translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin & Lidia Vianu
Then Suddenly, in the Little Bar of Your Body, I Overturn the Table
You Sang Beautifully but You Didn’t Change Your Life
Katie Berta
Dream Catalogue
My City Is Also a City
Nicolas Born
translated from the German by Eric Torgersen
The Dancer
Juices
Sewing Time
That’s How It Was
Kai Carlson-Wee
Hiding in a Well in the Northtown Yard
Mercy Songs
Where the Feeling Deserts Us
Victoria Chang
Mr. Darcy (Cars surround us)
Mr. Darcy (He ignores us)
Mr. Darcy (These men can be collected)
Norman Dubie
The Death of the Encyclopedia Salesman
Claudia Emerson
Acre
Ghost-Road
Rabbit
Rabies
Razor
Christopher Emery
The Back Porch
Detroit Boxtrain Wood
Finisher
Javier Etchevarren
translated from the Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval
The Corner Grocery
Family Song
The
Library
B.K. Fischer
Finger
Girl
A small (or large) machine
Ugly
Henry Hart
Annunciation, 1960
Inkstone Box
Slides of
Hiroshima
Trakl at Sandy Hook
Lisa Hartz
The
Rebecca Portraits, Paul Strand, 1920–1932
Triangles, Imogen Cunningham, 1928
Eman Hassan
Invasion (0329, 1990)
Suspended
David Huddle & Meighan L. Sharp
from Effusive Greetings to Friends
T.R. Hummer
Heraclitus
House
In Utah
The Morning
Mail
My Daughter's Passport
Robert Krut
River Side, Rain Side, Fire Side
Time Travel
Bargaining Tactics
Sandra Marchetti
1965
Denouement
Edward Mayes
Benders of Past Glory at the Blankety-Blank Bar
Gæð A Wyrd Swa Hio Scel
Revanche, or
Passing for Twenty-One
Victoria Lynne McCoy
Bad Company
Debarati Mitra
translated from the Bengali by Paramita Banerjee & Carolyne Wright
The Green Stigma
No, No, and No
Scott Montgomery
I Walked Away with This Object and It’s Possible
She Put a Spell on Me
We Could Be Dreaming
Kate Partridge
Chatter
Drunk Again
Visitor
Megan Peak
How the Wasp Girl Nests
Sex Ed
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Astrobleme
John Rybicki
The Man in the Field Is a Pop-up Book
Emily Skaja
Figure of Woman Coming Out of a Wall
It’s impossible to keep white moths
Lisa Wells
Cain Flees
Chore Wheel
We must be
coming down
