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POETRY

JAMES CIANO
Blood Orange on the Roofs | 8
At Keats’ Grave | 10

MAIA ELSNER
Against the wall of the old city | 15

ANDREW GENT
Covered Bridge | 16

KEN HOLLAND
The Bones of the Monks | 18

KATHRYN HUNT
My Dead Speak⁠—to Me. Do yours⁠—to You? | 20
Cycling | 21
Dr. Kildare | 22

L.S. KLATT
Penitentiary | 24
Lazy Omens, Amens | 25

RICHARD LYONS
Aquatint | 26

VICENTE HUIDOBRO | JONATHAN SIMKINS
Transfiguration | 27

FICTION

SUZANNE GROVE
Night Walk | 32

OLIVIA HABERMAN
World’s End | 46

LINDSAY MOORE
Inheritance | 56

NONFICTION

SUSAN BERARDI
The Chosen Ones | 66

EMMA LISTON
Cadaverland | 76

THE FRIEND

OLIVER BAEZ BENDORF
Introduction by Gabrielle Calvocoressi | 88
Dark or All Lit Up, Depending Who You Were and What You Needed | 89
Rest | 91
Cure | 92
Service | 93
Recreation | 94
Appetite | 95
Work | 96
Colony Collapse | 97

REVIEWS

DEBORAH BACHARACH
Lima :: Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico | 98

KATHERINE COLDIRON
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom | 102

JESSICA Q. STARK
Hour Book by Stefania Heim | 105

Kylan Rice | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Eli Hardwig

FICTION CO-EDITORS

Paul Blom & Matthew Duncan

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Carly Schnitzler

NON-FICTION EDITOR

Jo Klevdal

COVER DESIGN

Tracy Pitts

POETRY EDITORS

Calvin Olsen

MANAGING EDITOR

Evan Miles

INTERNS: Blythe Gulley, Sarah White
READERS: Elizabeth Bryan, Cierra Childs, Kelly Copolo, Natalie Costa, Laura Crook, Mili Dave, Maddie Ellis, Blythe Gulley, Maxim Tsarev, Kiran Wheeler, Sarah White