Martha Silano – She’s Pretty Much Who She Was; A Poem about Twinflower
Natalie Martell – Growing Things; Thalassophobia
Nicholas Wong – The urge to destroy is also; Gen X Odes
John A. Nieves – Scattering
Oak Morse – Hawk Heat Black Man
Dara Yen Elerath – A List of Facts; Sex
B.B.P. Hosmillo – Geography of Abuse, or the Rooms My Partner Built; Deformation Sonnet
Matthew Thomas Bernell – The Way from Sweetwater
Nora Gupta – Elegy for Aunt Kate
Meghan Sterling – Snowfall with Madness and Synesthesia
Christopher Brean Murray – Dreams of Labrador
Aleena Ahmed – Paralysis
Anthony Thomas Lombardi – praying mantis’s head being devoured by its mate under a full buck moon; sonnet in which the Poet contemplates suicide, his dead Mother as the Holy Ghost, & the cranes in Purgatory as messengers from God
Oliver Brooks – Trans Day of [Visibility/Remembrance/Lamentation/Liberation]
Eli V. Rahm – UNTITLED 1969
Rebe Huntman – Marriage With Caged Sky & Lines from Rumi
Puneet Dutt – Neon Syzygy
Sean Cho A – Rushed Sonnet #1; Rushed Sonnet #4
Allison Field Bell – The Girls
Ann Pedone – The Directory; from: Sheep
J. Bailey Hutchinson – Feast; Lake Poem
Emily Forester – You’re Ready When We Are
Katie McMorris – The Shrinking
Jackie Reitzes – Contranyms
Danica Li – The Old Man and the Wart
Amanda Gersh – This Old Child
Chelsea Lebron – Eviction Notice
Darren Huang – I Look Up
Swetha Amit – The Sweetness of Semolina
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes – The Jasper Fox
Marcia Brauer – Out of This World
Tschiegg – No Title (Cover); Blue
Torey Akers – mthr thrsa
Alicia Josten Zapata – Walk Lightly; Good Bones
Sarah Beth Childers – Gravida 5.1
Mary Christine Kane – Things I could do with the sweater you gave me, that light cotton cardigan with tan and cream horizontal stripes and red and pink flowers appliqued, which sounds ugly but is beautiful—strangers stop to tell me so although I rarely bring myself to wear it now.
Hilary Schaper – Sitting
Joanna Acevedo – Joy
Antonia Pozzi, translated by Amy Newman – Don Quixote
Constantine P. Cavafy, translated by Alex de Voogt – I have brought to the Arts
Miguel Otero Silva, translated by Chris Holdaway – The Choir’s Eighth Voice is that of the City
Past Issue: 48.2
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