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Ron Block
My Country, My Cousins
Telephone
3Rs: A Sentimental Journey
Frances Boyle
Camel Hair Coat
Rocking Chair
Lauren Camp
Echinopsis pachanoi
One Plus One Minus One
Our Daily Ration
Kevin Cantwell
The Week Before Christmas
Leila Chatti
from Deluge 
The Blood
Confession
Deluge
Portrait of the Illness as Nightmare
New Poems
Echo
Echo Discusses Desire with the Trees
Pearl Ghazal
Barbara Duffey
Afforestry
The Theoktistria
Alan Fang
Follow the Pen (随笔)
Safe Passage
torrin a. greathouse
My Friend Tells Me I’ve Got to Stop Letting My Enemies Live Rent Free in My Head
Still Life of Central Valley with Fog Cannons
Anna Journey
Experimental Perfume Class in Which I “Scent” the Folkloric Witch Baba Yaga
My Grandparents’ Velvet Painting of The Last Supper
Larry Levis
Linnets
To a Wren on Calvary
Song Lin
translated from Chinese by Dong Li
The Death of Osip Mandelstam
Providence and Prophesy
Tower of Enchantment
Justin Rovillos Monson
Conjure Song
Ode to the Dozens Ending with Me & My Dogs
Leah Poole Osowski
Inconclusive
Requiem
Anuel Rodriguez
Alviso
Flight Paths
Notes from the White City
Tomaž Šalamun
translated from Slovene by Brian Henry
Twelve Poems
Heather Sellers
Aftermaths
Category Five
Dinner on the Patio, December
Transubstantiation at the Aquatic Life Research Center
Pablo Piñero Stillmann
Elegy for Us Both
Leah Tieger
Packing the Car
Where Your Sister Danced in Other Years We Flee and Shelter
Barbara Tran
Four Cardinals
Long Division
Claire Wahmanholm
Deathbed Dream with Extinction List
The Future
In a Land Where Everything Is Trying to Kill You, I Teach You to Be an Autotomist
Missing Glossary
John Sibley Williams
Incarnate
The Moon Is Two Half-Moons Joined Together