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Megan Blankenship
Hail Mary
Pew
Fleda Brown
The Art of Composition
Sing
Lisa Coffman
Poem after the Equinox, 2015
Why I Love the Fiddle
Erica Dawson
Bone
Eve, clownin’ Adam
God asked me, like he asked Job, Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
Norman Dubie
That Century
The Nine Solitary Plasters of a Comedy
Susan Elbe
Loose Page Found Inside a Notebook
Of Time and North
Ed Falco
While Falling to Sleep
Leah Falk
The Machine's Guide to Grief
Out and Back
Sara Turing’s Archive
States and Instructions for the Universal Machine
Jessica Franck
Annunciation
Eve as 16-Year-Old Girl Who Eats an Earthworm on a Dare
Eve as Girl with Snake Duty in 7th Grade Science
Jennifer Givhan
Warn the Young Ones
Chloe Honum
Love Is a Wound that Will Happen
Stopping at a Gas Station on the Third Day of Driving Across the Country
Sophie Klahr
From Like Nebraska
Peter Kline
Mirrorform: Shapeshifter
Mirrorform: The Living Dead
Mirrorform: Visionary
Virginia Konchan
Helen Keller at the Rodeo
Sarah Maclay
The Glass Sonata
Soft Action
Laura Mccullough
Icarus in the House of Spirits
The Troubles of Men: Holometaboly
Miguel Murphy
Fukushima Winter
Hamlet
Catherine Pierce
From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Delicatessen
From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Undone
Poem for the Speakeasy
Joy Priest
My Father Teaches Me How to Handle a Pistol
Spell to Reverse Loss of Memories
Joshua Robbins
Eschatology in Crayon Wax
Solmaz Sharif
Drone
Force Visibilty
Mess Hall
Raena Shirali
daayan, feet facing forward
the procession
Alexandra Teague
Audrey Munson, The American Venus, Reimagines Her Life as Still Life
Baba Yaga Invites Fort Worth Girl Scout Troop #23 for a Campout
Pandora Opens USA Today, December 3, 2015, and Drafts an Editorial
Karrie Waarala
How to Remember
Memory of Museum of Memory
The Morning After
Lesley Wheeler
Pushing toward the Canopy
Ryo Yamaguchi
The Weeknight Showing
Serhiy Zhadan
translated from Ukranian by Alan Zhukovski
The Air We Breathed
Orange in a Schoolbag
Year’s Middle
