Table of Contents
Toi Derricotte - To the reader: On publishing a poem about the abuse in my childhood, poem
Toi Derricotte - Reading Robert Lowell at 3 am, poem
Toi Derricotte - Bad Dad, poem
Toi Derricotte - Fishermen with catch: Lamu, Kenya, poem
Toi Derricotte - On knowing a woman who excuses herself from the table, even in restaurants, to brush her teeth, poem
Kevin Prufer - Tender Thoughts, poem
Kevin Prufer - Wet Leaves, poem
Kevin Prufer - The American Voter, poem
Kevin Prufer - Jesus Christ, poem
Kevin Prufer - Not Thinking, poem
Kevin Prufer - Far-Away Wars, poem
Abdourahman Waberi - In Plain Speech, poem
Abdourahman Waberi - The Hoopoe, poem
Abdourahman Waberi - Wager, poem
Susan Laughter Meyers - Finding Her Huck Embroidery Folded in a Drawer, poem
Susan Laughter Meyers - Aunt Mary Alice Teaches Me to Tat, poem
Susan Laughter Meyers - Stars-on-the-River Tanka, poem
Susan Laughter Meyers - Postcard from Paris, a Deciphering, poem
Susan Laughter Meyers - Under the Waning Moon, poem
Susan Laughter Meyers - Sundog Sonnet, poem
Susan Laughter Meyers - Self-Portrait as a Small Journey, poem
Mahtem Shiferraw - Crossing Borders, poem
Mahtem Shiferraw - Swallowing Suns, poem
Mahtem Shiferraw - Invisible, poem
Mahtem Shiferraw - Your Body Is War (IV), poem
Clara Chow - Siren (Redux) by Haley Tien-Warrior – 25th Anniversary Oral History/ DJ Cliffhanger Remix – MUST LISTEN! THE FEELS . . . Awesome . . . , story
Robert Gibb - How to Paint a Dead Man, poem
John Blair - Zed, poem
Brian Sneeden - Elegy in Which I Am Awake, poem
John Lane - Grand Dragon, poem
John Lane - Locker Room, poem
Jennifer De Leon - Gyms, essay
Morri Creech - Self-Portrait as Magritte, poem
Morri Creech - Self-Portrait after Goya, poem
Alpay Ulku - Present Tense, poem
Alpay Ulku - Toxic Sun, Fifth of July, poem
Alpay Ulku - Angry at God, poem
Carolina Hotchandani - Phantom, poem
Kate Folk - The Last Woman on Earth, story
Simon Perchik - It was first a parade and your heart, poem
Hussain Ahmed - Things I Saw in My Father’s Eyes, poem
Adrienne Su - Instant Ramen, poem
Adrienne Su - Consomm., poem
Adrienne Su - The End of Mea David Moolten Joe, poem
Catherine Uroff - Dolphins, story
Connemara Wadsworth - Attic, poem
Connemara Wadsworth - Drawing with My Mother, poem
Connemara Wadsworth - In the Queue, poem
Barbara Helfgott Hyett - Night Guided by a Brown Beetle, poem
Barbara Helfgott Hyett - I Never Said, I Love You Best, poem
David Koehn - I Dream I Am Walking the Streets of an Unknown Metropolis with Anthony Bourdain and He Thinks Me a Bit of a Doofus, poem
Mark Burr - Dreamsick, poem
Katie Condon - When I Am Told to Buck Up to Fight the Good Fight to Pull Up My Boot Straps & Build Bridges But I Am Not Ready But I Know Damn Well I Should Be Ready So I Try:, poem
Saddiq Dzukogi - Father’s Last Meal, poem
Stevie Howell - Notes on not being able to have a baby, poem
Kerrin McCadden - When My Brother Dies, poem
Kerrin McCadden - Killeter Forest: Father McLaughlin’s Well, poem
Julian Randall - You Got McDonald’s Money?, poem
Julian Randall - San Zenon Repents, poem
Melissa Fraterrigo - Tadpoles, essay
Rachel Heimowitz - Refresh, poem
Rachel Heimowitz - Perhaps, poem
Rachel Heimowitz - Cranes, poem
Rachel Heimowitz - Mangoes, poem
William Archila - Beyond Bruegel’s Shore, poem
Eileen Bartos - Letter, poem
Ronda Broatch - Where the Lunch Cactus Grows, poem
J. Scott Brownlee Aron - Above the River, poem
Susan Okie - In Great Village, poem
Bethany W. Pope - Clinton, South Carolina, poem
Bethany W. Pope - Purifier, poem
Kelly Terwilliger - Gravediggers, poem
John Kinsella - Stumps, story
Patricia Clark - What I Wanted, poem
Patricia Clark - Our Lady of Victory Church, poem
Leila Chatti - Eyes Opened, As Gods, poem
Leila Chatti - Again the Summer Fires, poem
Leila Chatti - Faulty, poem
Leila Chatti - Indecision, poem
Katie Farris - What Daniil Kharms Believes, poem
Katie Farris - from ‘‘If Marriage,’’ poem
Komal Mathew - After the Honeymoon, Home, poem
Komal Mathew - Dressing for Diwali, poem
Abby E. Murray - When I Tell You I Love You, poem
Reviews
María Isabel Alvarez's Marriage of a Thousand Lies reviewed by SJ Sindu
César Aira's The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof reviewed by Bradley Babendir