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POETRY

JENNIFER BROWN
Obsessive | 8

SUSAN COMNINOS
fromUnplotted | 10

CHRIS DUBOSE
Sometimes I fear | 11

ALAIN JULES HIRWA
On My Relationship to Solitude | 12

ADAM HOULE
Easy Bird | 13
The Dressing Room Mirrors | 14

DAYNA PATTERSON
God the Mother Speaks with a Mouth of Ocean | 15

ELIZABETH REES
Woman Reclining on a Porch | 17
A Man is Coming | 18

FICTION

MARNI BERGER
Hurricane | 19

AISHA A. HARVEY
The Coat of Many Coloreds | 29

DANIEL SUTTER
Lucia | 38

NON-FICTION

SEAN BERNARD
That Old Picture on the Museum Wall is the World All Around Us; or, The Long Mulberry Tree | 51

HOLLY HAWORTH
How to Nourish | 60

NANCY REISMAN
Waiting Rooms | 62

TRANSLATIONS

FIVE GREEK LYRIC POETS, Trans. DAN-BEACHY QUICK
Alcman 3, fr 1 | 68
Love’s Chore (Anacreon 15) | 69
War-Torn (Archilochus 139) | 71
Callimachus XLIII | 72
Simonides 519B | 73

PAOL KEINEG, Trans. LAURA MARRIS
The Eleventh Hour | 75
Shakespeare and Co | 76
A Port on the Mediterranean | 77
Confession | 78
Travelers | 79

SHENG KEYI trans SOPHIE GRIMES & TODD FOLEY
Watermelons Taste Best When Stolen | 80
Camera | 82
We’re All Unmoored | 86

REVIEWS

BAILEY FERNANDEZ
Sun Cycle by Anne Lesley Selcer | 88

JESSICA COVIL
Savage Pageant by Jessica Q. Stark | 146

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

Lexi Johnson

POETRY EDITORS

Calvin Olsen

MANAGING EDITOR

Evan Miles

INTERNS: Katie Leonard, Blythe Gulley
READERS: Kelly Copolo, Laura Crook, Olivia Harris, Katie Leonard, Grace Stroup, Maxim Tsarev, Kiran Wheeler, Sarah White