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Hala Alyan
For Jamaica, for Ru
A Love Letter to My Panic
New Year
Post-Election Morning
Elvira Basevich
Birthday
The Way I Scream
Would You Believe It?
Roy
Bentley
Death at the Lakeshore
Linda Bierds
Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal One
Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal Two
Michelle Boisseau
Rapunzel, with Contrast
Sleeping Puppy and
Hedgehog: Rembrandt and Dürer
Swooping
through Broken Windows
Victoria Chang
OBIT (Hope)
OBIT (Victoria)
OBIT (Voicemail)
Katie Chaple
Black Holes Collide
Divination
In Trevi, One Town over from Spoleto on the Train
Christopher Citro
Anyway and Try to Stay Alive on What It Gives Us
Negar Emrani
translated from Farsi by Kaveh Akbar
Exhaust
A Mirror Never Lies
Tyler
Goldman
Martial—Epigrams
Andrew
Grace
from The Last Will and Testament of Said Gun
Cynthia Hogue
Crocus
Regarding Others’ Pain
Catherine MacDonald
Biophilia
Bird Study
Elegy with Barred Owl
A Note on the Art in the Oncologist’s Office
Sentinel Species
Janice
Majewski
sometimes kicked rocks don't land where
there are jawless fish
Kwoya
Fagin Maples
What Yields
Patricia Colleen Murphy
Jet Lag
Dan O’Brien
Sixty-One
Sixty-Five
Sixty-Nine
Iain Haley Pollock
Liver Sulfur
The Changing Table
Nancy Reddy
The Braided Stream
Landscape with Deer, Mites, and Aircraft
Ordinary Pleasure
Z.G. Tomaszewski
Searching This City’s Thrift Stores for Mirrors
Paige Webb
Inside excitement is a strand of terror
Gail Wronsky
Breton in Mexico
Elegy for Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan
Serhiy Zhadan
translated from Ukrainian by Alan Zhukovski
The Air We Breathed
Orange in a Schoolbag
Year’s Middle
