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Colin Bailes
Between the Fields of Then and Now
Nostos
Aliki Barnstone
Of Beauty and Suffering: Greece, 1969–1970
They Don’t Want You to Forget Who’s in Charge
Fleda Brown
Walking in the Spring Grasses
Wild Sweet Pea
Michael Chitwood
The Lake in Winter
Practicing His Signature
Stephanie Choi
Poem Written in My Grandmother’s Dress
Portrait of Louisa Cobb Thompson by an Unidentified Chinese Artist
Nicole Cooley
Mother Water Ash
New Orleans Love Poem
Sixteen Years to the Day Another Hurricane Reverses
Dorsey Craft
Essay Against Metaphor
Ode to the Stroller We Bought from Facebook
Claudia Emerson
Piano Fire
Stringed Instrument Collection
Jennifer Franklin
Lucia Anna and Anna Livia—Both Named by James Joyce
Parable
Hayley Graffunder
Like Riding a Bike
Relic
Stephen Haven
Chagall’s Song of Songs III
Nicole Homer
One of us is still alive and will prove it.
The shortest sentence in my autobiography is one word
Carolina Hotchandani
Archipelago
Somehow History
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Xylophone
Zephyr
Danielle Kotrla
Azimuth
Bluebonnets
Julia B. Levine
Cimex lectularius Linnaeus
The Storm
Your Body in Transit from Ice to Fire
Ibe Liebenberg
Ceremony
CPR @ 2pm
don’t bring your 6-year-old daughter to a wild horse auction, just bring a horse home
PTSD
Margaret Mackinnon
For the Last Man on Portsmouth Island
Nonnus of Panopolis
translated from Homeric Greek by Denise Low and Christian Teresi
Dionysiaca, Book 38
Kate Northrop
The Director
The Pickup’s
Suphil Lee Park
translating Hwang Jini and Kim Wooncho
Five Translations
Rebecca Poynor
Poem with Mississippi Honeybees
Windowless Place
Steve Scafidi
Selections from The Magic Life
Heidi Seaborn
At the Prado
Zuihitsu of LA in Conversation with David Hockney
Anna Tomlinson
Cross-Quarter Days
Alison Townsend
Emily Dickinson’s Maid Remembers
The Zoologist’s Daughter
Corey Van Landingham
American Four Square
Blood Moon
A Certain Epicharis
The End of the Life of Giorgione Da Castelfranco, Venetian Painter
Hypotactic
Waverley Vesely
Portrait of Madame X
Small Songs of the Body
Jonathan Weinert
The Drain
My Father’s Voice
Jim Whiteside
Bed
The Eye Is the First Circle
Caitlin Wilson
Morphology
The Offices of Grief
Brandon Young
Palmetto Train
Wreck Name: Unknown No. 3