CONTENTS

poetry

 Willie Lee Kinard III, What We Wayward Do

When I Made a Puppet

Aria Curtis, My Ghost Does Not Leave for a Hurricane

Florida

My Ghost Falls in Love

Shivani Mehta, Origin story

The somber tree gospel

Caelan Ernest, running up that building

Venus, on her way out:

Christian J. Collier, Benediction for the Black & Young

Blacula’s Love Song

Indrani Sengupta, the major arcana

a girl is red.

Julia Peçanha, Soft Hair

Pahá Sápa

Rebekkah Leigh LaBlue, Girl Pin-Up (Collection Redoublé)

On Taxonomy

Dakota Reed, Our Sandpaper Mouths

Rachel Franklin Wood, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Dishwasher

Jennifer Conlon, Trigger a Memory, or Out of the Blue

Rachel Inez Marshall, Creepy Sonnet

Ocean Urchin Elegy

What Makes This Heart Go Bang Bang 

G.C. Waldrep, The Guard Sound

Upon the Body of Intention

Zefyr Lisowski, Remembering Is a Kind of Work Too 

Ryan Greene, Fifth Most Populous & Fastest Growing 

Ayesha Raees, list

Moncho Alvarado, Dear Amá,

Dear Bernie,

fiction

Lauren Gilmore, Clotting

Jamie Lynn Harris, Mines

Tim Horvath, Idalina

Anna Schachner, If the House Was a Happy One

Jieyan Wang, Rain & Rain 

Julia LoFaso, How To House the Wanting

nonfiction

Rochelle Hurt, Terror Mirror

Leanna Petronella, Doll and Doll

Kirsten Vail Aguilar, Ashley 

Jennifer Jordán Schaller, The Performance

Kelsey Ward, Orvillesdóttir

art

Olude S. P., Of a witness at the Lekki massacre

All for the gains

Earthly race

Angela Deane, Follow Me

Away We Go

Rainbow Recital

Gazers We Are

Vignette With Roses

Nyssa Cheruvattam, nestled

silent

exiting from entrance