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Elvira Basevich
Birthday
The Way I Scream
Would You Believe It?Kwova Fagin Maples
What Yields
Linda Bierds
Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal One
Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal Two
Victoria Chang
OBIT (Hope)
OBIT (Victoria)
OBIT (Voicemail)
AWP Panel: Tribute to Dave Smith 
Bernard Martin
Perhaps He Should Have Stayed in the City
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop
Introduction and Table of Contents
Claudia Emerson
Poems from Claude Before Time and Space
appearing previously in Blackbird
v15n1 (opens in archive)
Acre
Ghost-Road
Rabbit
Rabies
Razor
Seedv13n2 (opens in archive)
Bird EphemeraEmilia Phillips
Catherine MacDonald
Reprint of a 2014 email interview with Claudia Emerson
Introduction to Claudia Emerson’s Poems in Waxwing
Poetry
Biophilia
Bird Study
Elegy with Barred Owl
A Note on the Art in the Oncologist’s Office
Sentinel SpeciesNonfiction
Until There Is Nothing Else to Tell
Katie Chaple
Black Holes Collide
Divination
In Trevi, One Town over from Spoleto on the Train
Nancy Reddy
The Braided Stream
Landscape with Deer, Mites, and Aircraft
Ordinary Pleasure
Roy Bentley
Death at the Lakeshore
Z.G. Tomaszewski
Searching This City’s Thrift Stores for Mirrors
Negar Emrani
translated from Farsi by Kaveh Akbar
Exhaust
A Mirror Never Lies
A Reading by Gretchen Comba & Karen Solie
Jessie van Eerden
What I Want Your Voice to Do
Michelle Boisseau
Rapunzel, with Contrast
Sleeping Puppy and Hedgehog: Rembrandt and Dürer
Swooping through Broken Windows
Gail Wronsky
Breton in Mexico
Elegy for Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan
Patricia Colleen Murphy
Jet Lag
Christopher Citro
Anyway and Try to Stay Alive on What It Gives Us
Cynthia Hogue
Crocus
Regarding Others’ Pain
Gallery
Kandahar to Canada
Hala Alyan
For Jamaica, for Ru
A Love Letter to My Panic
New Year
Post-Election Morning
1917 Suite 
A Term, a Month, a Year of Liberty
Introduction and Table of Contents spanning two issues, including:
The Silent Sentinels and the Night of Terror (v17n1)
The NAACP’s Silent Parade (v16n2)
Paige Webb
Inside excitement is a strand of terror
Iain Haley Pollock
Liver Sulfur
The Changing Table
Charlene Logan Burnett
Boardwalk ’62
Janice Majewski
sometimes kicked rocks don't land where
there are jawless fish
Cabell First Novelist Award Reading Loop
Jade Chang
from The Wangs vs. the WorldCabell First Novelist Award
Emily Block
A Reading by Jade Chang
Panel Discussion
Review | The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
Andrew Grace
from The Last Will and Testament of Said Gun
Tyler Goldman
Martial—Epigrams
A Reading by David Wojahn & Clint McCown
Chelsea Gillenwater
Review | Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
Kathryn Levy
Review | Clinch River by Susan Hankla
Matthew Phipps
Review | Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
Cassie Pruyn
Review | Cherokee Road Kill by Celia Bland
