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FICTION

A.M. MATSON
Caught | 6

ADAM SCHUITEMA
Deer Run | 9

SCOTT GOULD
Stand-In Jesus | 15

MONICA WESOLOWSKA
Zamboni Blues | 87

A. LOUDERMILK
Mad Lucy Lee and the Wrens, The Wrens and Mad Lucy Lees | 90

POETRY

TESSA JOSEPH
Introduction | 24

LEIGH ANNE COUCH
To Be Fire | 25

GABRIEL SPERA
At the Medical Waxworks in Bologna | 26

CAMILLE DUNGY
Aspire | 28

TIM ROSS
Old Foreign Film Late at Night | 29

KEN RUMBLE
from Key Bridge | 37

MAGGIE DIETZ
Hinge | 41

JAMES HOCH
The Witmer Boys’ Attempts at Fainting the New Goat | 43

MARIA HUMMEL
When We Lost the Moon | 44

MARTHA CARLSON-BRADLEY
Rare Earth | 46

ANDY YOUNG
fLa Mezquita, Cordoba | 55

EVIE SCHOCKLEY
Revisiting | 56

CHARLES BATTLE
Antebellum Piece | 59

ASHLEY MCWATERS
Final Verse | 60

SUPRITHA RAJAN
To The Body, Repair | 61

CECILY PARKS
End of August | 66

GIBSON FAY-LEBLANC
To a Mr Owen in the Trenches | 74

LEIGH ANNE COUCH
Fish | 75

JOHN CRUTCHFIELD
Three Photographs | 77

BRIAN BLANCHFIELD
The Matter, with Abjection | 80

INTERVIEW

LOUIS BOURGEOIS
An Interview with Charles Wright | 30

TESSA JOSEPH
“The Authentic Reader”: An Interview with Robert Morgan | 68

ESSAY

MICHAEL MCFEE
The Other Side of the Dark | 47

REVIEWS

SHAYLA HAWKINS
Odd Botany by Thorpe Moeckel | 81

SUPRITHA RAJAN
Seven-Star Bird by David Daniel | 82

CLARE DOUGLASS
Consolation Miracle by Chad Davidson | 83

AMY WELDON
Guide to Native Beasts by Mary Quade | 85

ART

ERIK NIEMI
Red Balloons | Cover

Lindsay Starck, Moira Marquis | EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

MANAGING EDITOR

Catherine O’Neill

FICTION EDITOR

Moira Anne Marquis
Rae Yan

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Sam Bednarchik
Travis Alexander

NON-FICTION EDITORS

Sam Bednarchik, Travis Alexander

LAYOUT EDITOR

Samntha Farley

COVER DESIGN

Philip McFee

POETRY EDITOR

Sarah George-Waterfield
Lee Norton

ART EDITOR

Chloe Accardi

STAFF: Aisha Anwar, Krista Harder, John Ligtenberg, Maddie Norris
FICTION READERS: Laura Broom, Jacob Watson, L. Lamar Wilson
POETRY READERS: Matthew Hotham, Jeffrey Peterson
NON-FICTION READERS: Ryan-Ashley Anderson, Anneke Schwob