POETRY Paige Sullivan Pilgrimage Back to an Original Feeling Sanjana Thakur I am going to steal an orchid Kathryn McKenzie Mummies of St. Michan’s Church Matt Del Busto We pluck stars from the sky Forester McClatchey Gall John A Nieves Picture Book Elegy Leia K. Bradley Everyone Has Lint and Other Tiny Things That Stick to Them Uyen Phuong Dang Quietly Uyen Phuong Dang Before Lunar New Year, Our Mothers Go Missing Claire E Scott I’m coming to terms with my body Eli V. Rahm Love-Root Carolene Kurien Sky Staring Christine Potter I Want to Be the Winner of Fat Bear Week Brendan Constantine The Poem for R Veronica Silva The Mother Buys a Modular Sofa Set Sydney Mayes Two Poems Tyler Wagner Pull Focus Tyler McAndrew Our Sloping Future Elizabeth Muscari On Hill Avenue in Fayetteville, Arkansas Megan Snyder-Camp All of us are here because of loss the social worker said and I disagreed as usual Stefan Karlsson Sewer Gator Orgy Maggie Yang Resurrecting Clare Labrador Aubade with Glass Windows Calgary Martin Augustine Mimi Yang The First Time I Thought My Father Could Kill Me Kinsey Cantrell PATHOLOGIZE Fee Griffin Unusable Tarot Reading from the Passenger Seat of a Crashed Peugeot 205 (1997) Michael Beard After a Burial nicole v basta epigenetics or: hope for easeful adaptation Erin Pinkham Mimaw Burning Sage Naomi Leimsider (Heavy Metal) Boots Hannah Cohen After Passing the Standardized Field Sobriety Test, I Hannah Marshall In the Beginning, Forest Willow James Claire Eumorpha Achemon; My Exoskeletal Self-Defense CD Eskilson How to be Happy Alfredo Aguilar It is June 2018- Geramee Hensley Forest Fire Xueyi Zhou Implications of Colors Tobias Tegrotenhuis Cyborgian Curriculum Vitae Alisha Dietzman Love Poem by the Light of a Documentary about the Texarkana Moonlight Murderer Maria Zoccola Two Poems Cass Garison An Abridged Lecture on Madness S. Salazar La Lengua no Tiene Hueso, Pero Sydney Vogl IN JANUARY, MY BODY BECOMES A GRAVEYARD OF WANT David Shumate Surgery Nicole Callihan There is No Happiness Adam DH The Birdwatcher C. E. Janecek Who Has Heard My Bleating in the Night? Kristin Entler Recalling a Dream of Stray Cats Everywhere Fox Rinne Body a Soft Dull Blade Katherine Indermaur From “Let the Question Die, Then Bloom” Jami Padgett Queer Awakening with Wolf Spider Brett Hanley Tiny House Nation Tennison Black The Confluence Alejandro Lucero Mom’s Chair William Fargason Nocturne with Fireworks Jordan Escobar Elegy for Armando Christopher Blackman Below the Dentist’s Bent Arm and through the Window, I See the Outline of the Shore through Fog Ayesha Raees Erasure Sara Elkamel Bad Temple Arielle Cottingham And The Tide Goes Out Aidan Daniel American crow (contrarian) Jose Hernandez Diaz New Kid In Town Leanne Drapeau GENESIS AT THE END OF THE WORLD Jane Morton Split Portrait Katie McMorris First Date with the Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs Clair Dunlap Shell No. 2 (1928) A. Prevett Sisters Sharing a Pillow, or, “Thank You, 117 Lomia” David Brunson World Music and Arts Festival, Santiago, Chile Brittney Scott A Cat’s Obituary Jacob M. Appel Discarding the Ashtrays Chrisli Markram Translation in Transit Emilie Collyer under bridges Claire Denson Two Poems Ciona Rouse Care Taylor Kirby Mom, when I called Erika Walsh I Star It Out Jake Bailey Schizo Sees the Man in/on a Coffee Shop Benjamin Gucciardi Timeless Tips for Simple Sabotage Steven Espada Dawson Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Mother’s Heart Day Heisinger-Nixon Two Poems Josh Luckenbach Eating the Tootsie Roll Ellie Black Whisper Network Casey Smith The woman in the Tecfidera commercial finally loses it Regina DiPerna Same Dream Renée Hamlin Sappho’s Ghost T R Poulson Zachary B Emry Trantham Tipping Point Tracy Pitts cancer in Leigh Camacho Rourks Untangle Lizabeth Yandel Is it too much to say, it started Arriel Vinson for the gone Black boys Tara Campbell Bin ich dein Neger? Abbie Kiefer August Elizabeth Hickson “The flesh and a broken whisper” Robert Heald Sometimes, the angels doze in the quarry Todd Dillard Abstract Patrick Kindig the sky is bright tonight Simon Shieh Like Being in Love Kristina Erny The Aliens Seek to Understand Pain Anna B. Sutton Fertility with Multiple Diagnoses William James Ursus Somniantes Mary Hanrahan a list of shit people said to me after my assault in three acts Larry Narron Checkpoint Sarah Bates According to the Farmers’ Almanac Alexa Doran Mother Darling Goes to the Casino Esteban Rodriguez Refuge Erin Slaughter All the Gentle Boys Grow Spurs Arielle Cottingham Southern Nostalgia Matthew W. Baker Prospects Christina Olson Dead Girl Alec Prevett Consider a Swollen Heart Gwendolyn Edward Interview with/about Erasure: The Blood Runs like a River through my Dreams Alec Prevett Our Husband Is Your HusbandBut We Still Love Him Eric Roy Small Plane Takes His Daughter to the Air Show Andrew Collard The First Place Sara Ryan In Praise of the Exoskeleton Michael Pontacoloni Another Beverly C. Wetherald Hidesfrom the Ranger at Spirit Lake, 1980 Peter Mason Broken Sonnet for the Winter I Worked as a Roofer Johnny Roger Schofield Moose Blood Dana Alsamsam The Lucky Ones Charles Nutter Peck Two Poems Philip Schaefer Average Speak Jessica Murray Etiquette of Submission Carolyn Oliver John Donne and Leonard Cohen at the End of the World Kwame Opoku-Duku Two Poems Jess Williard Untitled Luiza Flynn-Goodlett I Hate a Poem with Poem in It James Kelly Quigley You Carry That Junk Everywhere Alysia Sawchyn Girlhood Lynn Mundell Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us Amalie Kwassman Dear mom (or I hate to break it to you but the sky is a whore, too) Lisa Mecham Motherfucker Derek Mong The Journal of Glacial Archaeology Jeff Whitney Border Song Gary McDowell Long Hunter State Park, Late Winter Jacqueline Boucher I had that dream again Betsy Johnson-Miller lawn mower one Annalise Mabe Editor’s Note Leah Nielsen Almost Elegy for the Old Yellow Dog Stevie Edwards Two Poems Ariane Sandford Poem Where I Almost Hit a Coyote Eric Pankey As Through a Sheer Curtain Sarah Dalton In Defense of Being the Other Woman Amorak Huey The Problem with Burning Down Your Own House Ryan Collins Good Things You Should Know Rachel Janis Bar of Soap Brandon Amico Music Video Wesley Rothman Request Hour Helena Chung Orbit Matthew Minicucci Three Poems Kelly Magee Telltale Signs of Disaster Tyler Kline Once Said Kallie Falandays [If you said kitchen and meant harden and then if you walked out back and forgot] Stephen Brown 46. Calle de Lerdo Katie Schmid Two Poems Jon Riccio Confessional Dante Di Stefano Louisiana Hayride Shivaree M. D. Myers Alien Invasions at the Evans Salvage Grocery Derek Graf Better Weather Brandon Amico Scarecrow Museum JoAnna Novak Coverage Kathryn Merwin A Refrain in Utero Ryo Yamaguchi Two Poems Kayleb Rae Candrilli Two Poems H.K. Hummel Two Poems Kevin Stein Woodshed Charlotte Pence A Swim Stroke in Verse: Seventeen Giant Manta Rays and One Hut M. Shahid Alam In Memoriam Peter Twal Weather, Then You Picked the Wrong Place to Stay Shevaun Brannigan The Daughter Leslie Adrienne Miller All Mistakes Were Once New Hannah Loeb Finishing the Basement Christopher Citro Go On Take Another Little Piece of My Heart Rachel Contreni Flynn When I open the door a boy stands there Paula Brancato The only time I ever cried at the gym, Charles Harper Webb Why Are Your Poems Full of Turtles? Dante Di Stefano Without Wings J. Jerome Cruz Event Horizons Ceridwen Hall A Celebration John Sibley Williams In the Kingdom of Moths Brandon Amico How to Build a Telescope Eric Paul The Beginning and the Beginning Again Laura Brun log in Ellen Kombiyil Outgrowing: An Equation J. Camp Brown Mandolin in White Wood, Curing the Wood Melina Papadopoulos Moths Jennifer Jackson Berry Fat Girl Has Regular Sex Brendan Constantine Two Poems Martin Ott Two Poems Jessica Rae Bergamino Two Poems Matt W. Miller Under Blue Blankets Hasan Friggle Places We’ve Been Asnia Asim Seasick Brian Clifton If Mice Laid Eggs, They Would Be Kalamata Olives Nate Fisher HAL 9000, Upon His Mind “Going” Allan Peterson Literacy Liz Robbins Monkey Richard Prins Pantoum by Thelonious Monk Chloe Clark Like Acheron but Not
