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POETRY

DANIEL SCHONNING
Alphabet | 8
Birdsong | 9
Origin Story | 10

DEVON WOOTTEN
[Am I grateful / I am grateful.] | 11
[No thing compels.] | 12
[Our ashy tongues, our hearts afire—] | 13

NANCY TAKACS
The Worrier (marriage) | 14
The Worrier (hawk) | 16
The Worrier (houses on the lake) | 18
The Worrier (mushrooms) | 21

AGNES HANYING ONG
Swim in Minkowski Space | 23
Doxology | 25
Gotham | 28
Strewn Yellow Wound-Pink | 29

FICTION

MICAH NEMEREVER
Radiant | 32

CYNTHIA SOWERS
A Trap to Catch the Earth | 38

AMY WILEY
A Bit of Fluff | 45

NON-FICTION

SARAH E. BODE
Death by Papercuts | 54

SABENA STARK
Fire Drill | 63

KRISTEN CASE
On Certainty | 68

REVIEWS

MINDY BUCHANAN-KING
Bezoar: And Other Unsettling Stories by Guadalupe Nettel | 82

GEOVANI RAMÍREZ
The Skin Artist by George Hovis | 85

DEREK WITTEN
Angels & Saints by Eliot Weinberger | 92

REMEBRANCES

NATHAN DIXON
David Southern: A Remembrance | 98

Kylan Rice | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

ASSISTANT EDITORS

Bailey Fernandez & Eli Hardwig

FICTION CO-EDITORS

Paul Blom & Matthew Duncan

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Carly Schnitzler

NON-FICTION EDITOR

Jo Klevdal

COVER DESIGN

Jo Klevdal

POETRY EDITORS

Colin Dekeersgieter

MANAGING EDITOR

Ellie Rambo

INTERNS: Renata Schmidt
READERS: Emily Clemente, Kelly Copolo, Laura Crook, Olivia Harris, Katie Leonard, Grace Stroup, Maxim Tsarev, Abigail Welch