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1918 Suite Coda
That Night Another Change
E.W. Gibson
Leviathan: A Charnel ShipAddie W. Hunton &
Kathryn M. Johnson
Over the Canteen in FranceWarwick Deeping
from The House of Adventure1918 Atlantic Narratives
(two stories in context)1918–1919 Time Capsule
The Great “Movie Jag”
If You Must Smoke . . .
Pandemic Slide Show
Felicity Sheehy
Apollo Catches Daphne
At Ten
Makeup
My Mother Has Had It with the TragediesSamyak Shertok
In the Year of the Earth
King Vulture
Riflesong of a Dalit Comrade
A Small Talk
Claudia Emerson
Poetry
The Bookmobile Lady: Pittsylvania County, Virginia
On Leaving the Body to ScienceCommencement Address
UncommonwealthPhotos & Commentary by Kent Ippolito
Snapshots
TJ Jarrett
The Cantor
The Children (Part II)
Jennary: Hinterland
Margaret Mackinnon
Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1475
Looking for Virginia Dare
Jennifer Franklin
Annunciation, without Angel
June
Reading about the Lost Children of Tuam
Still Life with Gold
Jaimee Hills
Inheritance of Fire
Anzhelina Polonskaya
translated from Russian by Andrew Wachtel
Death is White
Alison Hall | for the white bird
Artist’s Statement & Table of Contents
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Week 25: Rutabaga
Ranjana Varghese
My Brother the Artist, at Seven
Larry I. Palmer
from Scholarship Boy, “Where Are You From?”
David Moolten
Camouflage
The Kite
Robert Lynn
Luck Left Over for Those Who Lose Games of Russian Roulette
Inge Pedersen
translated from Danish by Marilyn Nelson
Seedlings
Tomas Tranströmer
translated from Swedish by Patty Crane
After a Long Drought
The Black Mountains
The Boat—The Village
From Winter 1947
Funchal
Homeward
Francesca Bell
Intention Tremor
The Way Some People Laugh at Funerals
Wesley Gibson
from You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival
Fleda Brown
Museum
Picnic, with Geese
Stump
Mikhail Aizenberg
translated from Russian by Boris Kokotov
It’s quiet here—except for a squeaking stroller
It’s really nice around here
A Plot
Chelsea Woodard
At the Lepidopterist’s House
William Olsen
As Cheer Passed By a Death Bed
Shaken, as of Things That Are Made
Three Versions of an Underpass, Somewhere outside Houston
James Leech
Of cabbages and kings
James Tate
Nine Posthumous Poems
Carol Ann Davis
From this blue born
Looking for God (its big machine)
What is the layer
Kenneth Chacón
Christ in a Cholo Stance
Letter to Neighbor After We Moved to the Good Part of Town
Susan Aizenberg
After Reading the News This Morning, I Turn to the Curses of My
Ancestors: A Found Poem
Eleanor Remembers Her Soldier
Now That You’re Nowhere
Amina Gautier
Dutch
Everything
Kathleen Heil
Collection & Identification
A Reading by Jessie van Eerden & Clint McCown 
Joy Katz
Review | Winter by Sarah Vap
Weston Morrow
Review | Brute by Emily Skaja