CONTENTS

POETRY

JANE ZWART Valentines

JOHN A. NIEVES Breachway

HA KIET CHAU 215 Missed Calls

SHANA ROSS Virginia Woolf said the wordless women are the happiest

MCKINLEY JOHNSON Diptych after Friendship by Agnes Martin

URSUS SARTORIS Graffiti to Tear Down the Wall – SCR Series in Latin American Translation

HOMA MOJADIDI Broken Ghazal; Neighbor

DOUG RAMSPECK Crow Eulogy; Love in the Apiary

RACHEL PITTMAN Eve After Exile

WILL SUMMAY On Translation

HARRY GORDON “Shooting leaves…”

WILLIAM JAMES keystone & thread; i have to go back to winter 1987

KEN HOLLAND Terminal Velocity

ADELAIDE SENDLENSKI Self-Portrait at Prospect Lake

BRIANNA RAU family reunion

CHELSEA ZHU Lowcountry Haibun

DAWN ANGELICCA BARCELONA After the Novena

DAN LEACH To the Previous Owner of this House, Whose Mail I Have Been Reading Since Last Fall

DANIEL LURIE On the Eve of My Birthday, I Split Wood Alone in the Shop and Consider Endings

MARJORIE MADDOX Again, Chicken Little Screams,

COLEY GIBSON Misattribution

CANDICE M. KELSEY IEP

MATTHEW J. SPIRENG The Book

SARAH GANE BURTON What an Archaeologist Knows About Dirt

DEBMALYA BANDYOPADHYAY First Discovery

FICTION

ROBERT LONG FOREMAN Slipper

SHAH TAZRIAN ASHRAFI Monument

EMILY ALICE KATZ Molly and Mimi in the Southland

DANA BELL Bear

JARED HANSON Porch Light

IRVIN HUNT Mr. Super

STEVEN FROMM Paging Dr. Santos

CHOLE HOLLOWELL HOOKS Corkscrewed

FRANZ JØRGEN NEUMANN Heat Dome

KATE LISTER CAMPBELL The Run

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

LUCY MCBEE Afterwardsness

BOOK REVIEWS

MAGGIE MITCHELL Dancing for Her Life: A Review of Lauren Morrow’s Little Movements

JOHN RICHARD SAYLOR Lives on the Edge: A Review of Doug Ramspeck’s Dancing in Their Dead Mother’s Dresses

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Poetry

STACY MARIE MILLER The tumor in my uncle’s brain sings a lullaby in the key of Kathy Bates in Misery

DESTINY O. BIRDSONG Booby Trap; Permissions

ZACHARY LUNDGREN The Skyline Is Two Gazes Long

KATIE KEMPLE Million Dollar Poem; Cigerette love poem

ADRIANA BELTRANO Plaster Crucifix Sonnet; The Substance

ARTHUR MCMASTER Two People Sharing a Small Umbrella

ISMAIL YUSUF OLUMOH a poem that cajoles my mother into a smoke as an invaded country

KELLY R. SAMUELS Turning Toward a Large Body of Water as Implicit Memory

DANIEL BRENNAN The Memory Game; Insomnia Season

JENNIFER VEECH Terminal Ballistics

ALEXANDER LAZARUS WOLFF Anorexia Nervosa; The Second Noble Truth

BETH DULIN All the Lightning You Carry

DUSTIN BROOKSHIRE & BETH GYLYS Body’s Wish Villanelle

MARY ROBBINS Her Spirit Lingered in JCPenney

ALEX MOERSEN To be an old dog who loves figs

LAUREN SWIFT continuation

CHRISTOPHER ANKNEY The Good Guys

WILLIAM L. RAMSEY Late Night Ramble 1984

JILL MICHELLE My Therapist Tells Me; The Truth is Made Of

DANIEL LASSELL The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child

EMMA BOLDEN Clickbait

MEGHAN MIRAGLIA All My Love; Reproduction

JOSH MAHLER Elegy for a Friendship

MICHAEL JULIANI On the Need for Validation

Fiction

E.R. RAMZIPOOR Unidentified

BILLY O’CALLAGHAN The Beating

CHRISTOPHER CHILTON First in Flight

MARCIE ALEXANDER Christmas Eve

JESSICA LEE RICHARDSON Glossarium

HARRIS QUINN The Habit of Losing

SHANIA SIU Gaakzaipou

K.C. VANCE Now That Will is Gone

KINDALL FREDRICKS Black Hare

KATIE WARD Cruelty Free

PETER KESSLER Beach Day

Creative Nonfiction

MELISSA REDDISH The Zeitgeist of a Sentence

CASEY GRAY Nine-Pound Hammer

Book Reviews

SARAH BLACKMAN Witness to Their Passage: Shobha Rao’s Indian Country

HARRIS QUINN What a Brother Knows: A Review of Dean Marshall Tuck’s Twinless Twin

JOSEPH BATES The Family Found: A Review of Kevin Wilson’s Run for the Hills

CONTENTS

Poetry

FARAH ABOUZEID the dream hills; you cannot deny the authority of the mountains

TARA BRAY American Dream; Winter Walk/Summer Walk

JOSHUA MARTIN Ode to the Salmon That Didn’t Make It

JAMES ENGLEHARDT Goldilocks Will Not Forget

NATE MARSHALL in her last days my grandma worried about me; whichever singer or songwriter or old uncle who first came up with the phrase go half on a baby is terrible at math

SIMON ANTON NIÑO DIEGO BAENA Ghost

DAVID STARKEY Her Hand

RACHEL HERSHON The Porn Actor’s Wife

AMANDA ROTH Office of Childhood

RAENA SHIRALI Turning Thirty on a Little Patch of Concrete, Not Alone

EMILY ROSKO I Can Be Nice

BELA KOSCHALK Would S&M Satisfy Octopus Under Duress/My Own Lachesisms

GRACE GUY Eulogy for the Living

JESSICA NIRVANA RAM Holy Ghazal

CHIAGOZIEM JIDEOFOR this poem

FRANCES KLIEM Funeral Procession Up Deer Mountain

JOSHUA KULSETH My Father, the Wrestler

JULIÁN DAVID BAÑUELOS La Casa en la Noche

MICKIE KENNEDY No Leaks

DOMINIQUE AHKONG When I Met You; A Man Who Looks Like Your Best Friend’s Father

ELIZABETH CRANFORD GARCIA Anti-elegy on the way to work

CD ESKILSON Distant Relations

BRIAN CZYZYK Lafayette, Indiana

CHARLES KELL Rhode Island

KAILEY TEDESCO domestic horror/dog walk

CELIA LAWREN Mesopic Vision

VICTORIA JEAN REYNOLDS Nape

JOSH LUCKENBACH Finally After So Much

Fiction

CYN NOONEY Sterling Recruit

COLBY VARGAS Something Like a Year

G.D. HOLLOWAY Spook Hill

ANNA RIMOCH Little Bird

KASEY PETERS Creep

REBECCA BERNARD An Overwhelming Loneliness

ELIZABETH FARREN Tattletale

PATRICK J. ZHOU Nice-Ville Station

KATHLEEN DONAHOO Storm Season

VICTORIA MORSELL HEMINGSON Lava

Creative Non-Fiction

HARRIS WALKER The Matanza

Book Reviews

STEPHEN HUNDLEY We See You: A Review of Dustin M. Hoffman’s Such a Good Man: Stories

CARSON COLENBAUGH Far From Silent, Far From Buried: Ben Kline’s It Was Never Supposed To Be

MICIAH PENDARVIS helen of troy gets a five-star review: Maria Zoccola’s Helen of Troy 1993

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Poetry

ALIYAH COTTON Dark Matter

ERIKA ECKART Reaper; Into the Woods; On contingency plans when one cannot release one’s young into the wild

SHARON KENNEDY-NOLLE Bad Still Life With Bob Ross; Kopack and KFC

CARSON ELLIOT Murfreesboro: Redux

STELLA WONG sonnet for pan jinlian

G.C. WALDREP Wilderness of Causes

ENEIDA ALCALDE Daughter’s Grief; Ring of Fire

PROSPER C. ÌFÉÁNYÍ The Last Image of Mercy

GRACE EZRA More Than Ever

ROSS WHITE Ode to the Fabulously Wealthy

ALLISON FIELD BELL You Burn Me

SARA BURGE Luck

JO BEAR Family Cross-Section: Mother; Unwilded

WAYNE CHAPMAN The Butterfly Garden

DANIELLE SHORR Ode to the Walmart Claw Machines

STEFANIE KIRBY Coronary; Traffic

BERNADETTE GEYER Explaing Cremation to Our Daughter at the Dinner Table

JOSEPH BYRD Haunting

LANA SPENDL Through the Window

COLLIN KELLEY Ev’ry time we say goodbye

ALEX LEE Lament for the Doe

EBEB E.B. BEIN Mother’s Day

SAM SZANTO The Spider and the Fly

STEVE DENEHAN Dressed to Go Out

KAISA ULLSVIK MILLER Last Summer

Fiction

ERIK HARPER KLASS The Phenomenology of Leaving

PRACHI KAMBLE The Divers

MAURICE IRVIN Ryan Number Three

BENJAMIN MYERS Wakefield

CYNTHIA NOONEY Sterling Recruit

RYAN LIVINGSTON Mr. Gorski’s Science Club

MATT CASHION Reunions, Atrocious Manners, the Atlanta Airport

MANDIRA PATTNAIK All My Old and New Selves

SUZANNE MANIZZA ROSZAK First Night at Fern’s Spectacular Twenty-Four-Hour Diner

A.M. YANG Something Special

Creative Nonfiction

ANNA B. MOORE You Will Never Be Happy Again, 1986

MARY GRIMM Coming Back from the Dark

 

Contents

Poetry

NATALIE GIARRATANO Farmer’s Almanac: Wildfire Outlook

LAURA VOGT Folklore of Past Lives

MARÍA ESQUINCA Dream In Which I Return Home; Dream in Which My Father Ask For Forgiveness; My Mother Crawls Out of The Ocean

DANIEL OOI My Christian Grandfather’s Taoist Funeral 

ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT The Secret Life of Wisteria; I Carry Wisteria In My Chest

JENNIFER GIVHAN Order of Operations ((or the Viral Equation that “Broke” the Internet) or Mothering Through Chronic/Mental Illness); My Daughter & My Daughter & I Test Positive for Covid

JAVIER SANDOVAL The Last Dozen Drizzled-City Nights

CHARLES BYRNE Everything happens for a reason

ZACHARIAH CLAYPOLE WHITE Medical History as Creation Myth

SHAUN TURNER The Bull Moose Bluff Charges

KENIA CANO Stone;Fiesta

MEGAN J. ARLETT Alhambra Incantation; August Afternoon in the Olive Orchards

JOHN T. HOWARD Our Father

JULIE FUNDERBURK Shoes

MEGHAN STERLING Love Poem for My Husband at 4 AM

JOSH LEFKOWITZ Forty-One Years

EMILY LAKE HANSEN Baby Got Back But It Won’t Fit In The Seat

ROBBIE Q. TELFER Pachyderm

AMORAK HUEY Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Indiana Jones

SARAH BROCKHAUS To the Cockroach

ANGIE MACRI Findings

JEFF NEWBERRY Word Problem

DOUG RAMSPECK River Birch

Fiction

BRADLEY BAZZLE Each Unique Specimen 

LESLIE PIETRZYK Girls Like That End Up Fine

MATT LUMBARD Big River, little river

M.O. WALSH The Staggered

WILLIAM WALKER Chemin de Dieu

ROBERTO ABAD If You Think About It, It’s Not So Bad SCR Series in Latin American Translation 

BHAVIKA SICKA Mooring

VASILIOS MOSCHOURIS The Impact

CLAYTON BRADSHAW-MITTAL Carolina Demon Story

DENNIS MCFADDEN Territorial Imperatives

S.J. LAURO Snake Luck 

Book Reviews

SCOTT GOULD One Foot Here, One Foot There: Khem K. Aryal’s The In-Betweeners 

JON SEALY Implacably Real: Ron Rash’s The Caretaker