Necessity
Matthew Spireng
Toof
Imani Davis
The Consolations
Matthew Sumpter
Intravenous Therapy
Robin Gow
Demolition in the Tropics
Rogan Kelly
String Theory in Mud Season
Gail Comorat
O Trout
Gary J. Whitehead
River Town
Steve Myers
Make Love
Donna Isaac
Backslider
Catherine Cowie
When I’ve Run Out of Coffee
and/or First Person Plural
Andie Francis
The Calendar and Other Rectangles
Clayton Krollman
12.9.2018
John Stanizzi
The Naming Ceremony
Yuxin Wen
Palm Fronds
Roberta Curley
Dante and Virgil in Hell
Joshua Uyheng
Habitat
Michael Schermerhorn
What We Did After We Stopped the Boats
Yiwei Chai
Always a Game of You
Eric Stiefel
The Young in New York
Rebecca Pyle
Horse Girl
Jimin Lee
Lake River Lake
Lilace Mellin Guignard
After the Accident
Richard Cole
To Make Paradise Out of Paradise
Emily Schulten
Wake
Alie Kloefkorn
Tu Fu’s Tartar Horse
Pui Ying Wong
I carried around for the
whole day a fresh banana
Winniebell Zong
Granada
Suzanne Grove
How to start a poem:
Carolyn Liu
Advice
Abbie Kiefer
Well Done
Teesta S
Halcyon
M. Wright
Fiction
Saturnalia
James Smart
Give Me a Love Song
Melissa Goode
Bang Bang Chicken Salad
Steven Mayoff
Sonna
Devanny Benitez
The Future Is a Blue Dog
Robert Kaye
Hard Candy
Daniel Uncapher
Really
Devan Hawkins
Lent
Naomi Elegant
Nonfiction
My Country
Tracey Lien
First Day of Work
You Young Kim
Grace
Brad Hong
Definiteness 1
Nathaniel Armstrong
Gaze
Seon Kim
Untouched Totems
Leechen Zhu
Cloister
Karl Zuehlke
Miriam Walks Home
Pearse Anderson
Untitled
Jacob Kind
Feeling Happy
Agniya Tolstokulakova
Play
Mark Lee Webb
Dreamedary
Shelby Prindaville
Hope on Earth
Sophia Latorre-Zengierski
Definiteness 2
Nathaniel Armstrong
Canopy
Kaitlin Moore
I’ll Be There For Dinner
Ann Calandro
Self
J. Lewis
Finding Philadelphia and the Moon
Leechen Zhu
Country Route 20
David Rubenstein
Closet
Malcolm Corley
Lineup
Mark Lee Webb
Interviews
From the Archive
That Golden Light
Allen Ginsberg
Poem
E. E. Cummings
Shadows
William Carlos Williams
Poem(or
E. E. Cummings
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Editor's Note
Poetry
Mess of Jewels
Rhiannon Conley
Paternal Pedagogy
Derek Otsuji
Myth
Joellen Craft
Word Problem
Steven Duong
Sonnet on Swallowing
Bailey Cohen
Cars Poetica
Richard Krohn
The West Wood
Cecelia Vieira
Red Earth
Beth Brown Preston
Three Miracles
Trish Hopkinson
As I carry the ringshadow / you carry the ring,
Zoe Stoller
Fauna of Mirrors
Erika Kielsgard
My Husband Eats a Crocodile at the Bangkok Night Market
Aparna Upadhyaya Sanyal
Taking the Auspices at Bald Hills
Jeff Ewing
Marine Whether
Carolyn Liu
Cooking with Baudelaire: Coq Au Vin
Audra Coleman
shame is a screen door swinging violently shut
Gabrielle Hogan
Good Vibrations
Natalie Homer
Ghazal for My Grandmother
Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Naissance
Natalie Chao
Disheveled Prayer
Claire Scott
Apparently, God Can Get A Little Lonely,
Amalie Kwassman
Quantum Suicide Machine
K.T.
Juice and Sap: An Origin Story
Margaret O'Hare
You Wouldn’t Be Here to Read This, So I Call This an Elegy
Sneha Subramanian Kanta
The Herds of Winter
Audra Coleman
FICTION
What Can’t Be Called Hunger
Katlyn Tjerrild
A Disturbing Instability
Bill Wolak
Civilized Mouse
Drake Tuber
Synergy
Robert R. Thurman
Two Branches
Duane Abbott