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INSIDE THE ISSUE
SARA NICHOLSON “Lines Heard” ”Salmon and Rice” ”Wind, Rain, and Poetry” ”from Fragment of a Would-Be Sonnet Sequence, to Have Been Called ‘The Lost Art of’”
SARAH PASSINO “eleventh day” “twenty-fifth day” “forty-second day”
CODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE “WHAT THAT MOUTH DO” “YOU WOULDNT OF GUESSED IT BUT TH LOTUS IS STILL BLOOMING”
BRANDON SHIMODA “NEW YEARS” “DEATH OF THE FLOWER”
NATALIE HOMER “Wild Tonic in the Rain”
RAE WINKELSTEIN “pink breakable” “BOTRO::””Fairytale”
JULES WOOD “No One House”
BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY “Identity & Community (There is no ‘I’ in ‘Sea’)” “Our Beloved Infinite Crapulence” “Sel de la Terre, Sel du Mer”
CANDICE WUEHLE “embalm” “then at one point i did not need // to translate the notes // they went directly to my hands”
ELAINE WONG “Three Poems by Chen Li”
EMILY PINKERTON “[eroded soil]” “[construction site]” “[idling car]” “[late-afternoon haze]” “[sledgehammer]”
MELISSA ELEFTHERION “Hydra in Her Own Dust”
SAWAKO NAKAYASU “TEN MASTURBATING GIRLS” “UTOPIA”
JOHN BARRINGTON “GENERATION STENT” “ARC SWEETNESS”
ADITI MACHADO “from EPISTLE TO THE EFFICIENCE”
AVERY R. YOUNG “eargraf & receipt(s)” “context” “blkgroun(d) singer’s lyric sheet | lady day on soul-train” “blkkgroun(d) lyric-sheet &/or chutch fan base | get to know a nina simone song”
VALERIE HSIUNG from Tell Me How It Makes You Feel “[Whatever happens at a of must and be ]” “[Mountain of my youth…]” “MEN SIT ON THE WALL & WOMEN HANG OVER IT” “from outside voices, please”
JULIAN TALAMANTEZ BROKLASKI “my voice was too obvious”
ANDREA ABI-KARAM “limit/less”
STACY KIDD “(b) —•••” “(c) —•—•”
SOPHIA DAHLIN “Poem A Day” “I’ll Reciprocate Ur Alterity If U Reciprocate My Alterity” “Poem About Seedless Tomatoes Aren’t Fruit”
JESSICA LASER “Reporter” “Identification” “Uniform” “Plumber”
S. YARBERRY “Letter” “Anteroom” “Graphic”
NOAH ROSS “from THE MAGIC CHAMBER”
CHIWAN CHOI “from My Name is Wolf”
MEREDITH CLARK “constellation seen over the shoulder”
KARTHIK SETHURAMAN “Scavanger, carry me home” “Sand”
BERNARD FERGUSON “death is a currency”
STEPHANIE CHANG “Air Quality May Vary”
ANGEL DOMINGUEZ “hands.” “4 the Fam (my Siblings)” “#145”
NATHALIE KHANKAN from | quiet orient riot | “the bread is flat” “quiet orient riot” “the surface i’m gripping” “that summer wasn’t a pleasant Person” “they said it was morning”
AURA MARU from your marx/ my marx “my grandfather/ my grandfather” “facts” “post-soviet pastoral”
A.D. LAUREN-ABUNASSER “Harvest Wreckage” “Instructions for Breaking Wreckage”
NICK HOFF “[grasses on dry land]” “In memoriam”
The cover art for our 49th issue is by Nicki Green.