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Dilruba Ahmed
When the Time Comes
Ralph Angel
Untitled (Against the slope)
Untitled (the dream is crying)
Untitled (I stared at the glint)
Untitled (When time settles)
Christopher Bakken
Exile in a Thrift-Store Landscape
Jacqueline
Balderrama
Canción de Cuna
Zero, 2018
Joan Baranow
Anthology: a collection of flowers
From This Distance
Ash Bowen
AM/FM
Birds and the Way They Understand
Love
Going to Your Funeral in a Vee-Eight Ford
Ronda Piszk Broatch
Instead Of Death I Welcome The Stranger
In Dreams, My Ancestors
Sumita Chakraborty
Arrow
Essay on the Order of Time
Adam Chiles
Hitchhiking at Nineteen
The Letter
Shadow
Michael Chitwood
First Loss
The Potato Eaters
Norman Dubie
Not Before but After Us
Kristina Erny
Elijah and the Widow
Elijah Fed by Ravens
Kathryn Haemmerle
Mid-February at Navy Pier
Peripheries
Erin Lambert Hartman
An Apology to Edgar Allan Poe
By You
Why I Left Academe for Massage Therapy
Dennis Hinrichsen
[box of light with Keats in it] [& an iPhone] [& a boy]
Henry Israeli
Between the Trees
Pain Is Never Done
So Many Promises
Cyan James
Agnostic Wandering
Old Spice & Cordite
Anna Leigh Knowles
Aftermath
Escape Plans
On Lockdown
William Logan
Daumier, Man on a Rope
En Plein Air
Julio Monteiro Martins
translated from Italian by Donald Stang & Helen Wickes
Coupling
Amber McBride
For Colored Kids Building Up Their Bones
Darren Morris
On Learning That I Can No Longer See the Stars
Rachel Neve-Midbar
Reading Bruno Schulz on Rosh Hashanah 
Sophia Parnok
translated from Russian by Rainie Oet
Cigarette after cigarette
Our Passion’s still
carefree, still young
Catie Rosemurgy
Diorama (map legend)
Diorama (a
moment with the doctor)
Diorama (there is a love story)
Diorama (trapper
standing over a young woman in a blue dress)
Diorama (the young soldier returning to duty)
Diorama (young woman lying on the ground in a blue dress
Ira Sadoff
Interior with Mickey Mantle
Self-Portrait with Michelangelo
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
In the Museum of the Nineteenth Century, the Lights Are Coming On
The Literary Scholar
Pteridomaniac
Cherene Sherrard
The Turtle Cure
Alison Stine
Finding Other Uses On Earth
Svetlana Turetskaya
A Soviet Painting by Nikolai Solomin, She Did Not
Wait
Swan Lake with Dostoevsky
Kathleen Winter
Bystanders
Killarney
Trespass
Annie Woodford
And So the Beauty of Lilies Falls on Angels and Men
Great Road
Jenny Xie
Borderless
Ongoing
Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season