Nonfiction

Lizz Dawson, Slime Flux

Katherine Yeejin Hur, Whose Secret

S.C. Beckner, The Knowing

Katherine O’Hara, excerpt from You Have to Trust Me

Translation

Jean D’Amérique translated by Conor Bracken, Formula for the Distance Between My Mother and the poem, Mother Tongue

Kim Hyesoon translated by Cindy Juyoung Ok, For the Next Instant’s I, Pupil

Milad Kamyabian and Kourosh Karampour translated by Ali Asadollahi, Meat Grinder, The Persian Blade

Art

Matthew Klane, Exclusive Artistry

Babes Club Tee

Combating the Root Cause of Asymmetric Polarization

Back Pain

Taylor Yingshi, November 21st

Drown

Room

Anthoula Lelekidis, Livaditsa, Greece

Dance at Epidaurus

Two generations ago

A distant figure called Mom

Kim Nekarda,  2022, Watercolour, Acrylic, Ink, Pigment, Photocopy & Body Print on Paper, 54,5 x 44 cm

2021, Watercolour, Graphite, Photocopy & Body Print on Paper, 58 x 43 cm

2021, Watercolour, Ink, Pigment, Photocopy & Body Print on Paper, 56 x 43 cm

CONTENTS

poetry

Joy Priest, Bass

Soulful Songs Found in Strange Places

My Sister

 Haolun Xu, Spillway

 Cristina Pérez Díaz, excerpt from The Garden of Limbs

 mónica teresa ortiz, Birds at a Funeral

Blue Heron

supper time

 Sara Lupita Olivares, Imposition

 Sarah Ghazal Ali, Epistle: Hagar

Cicatrix

 Patrycja Humienik, Recurring

Aubade in Which I Linger

 Zach Simon, Homestead

Fiction

Marissa Higgins, The Source

Sarah Fawn Montgomery, The Pleasure of My Company

Jenny Drai, Plumage, Skin

Daniel Paul, Love Story While Selling Your Forehead as Advertisement Space