CONTENTS
poetry
Phuong T. Vuong, If Language is a Metaphor Between Sound and Meaning
Grandmother Says: New Theorems
Joan Kwon Glass, Saving All My Love For You by Whitney Houston
Kiyoko Reidy, POEM IN WHICH I CAN FORGIVE MY OBAASAN//POEM IN
WHICH I CANNOT
Cymelle Leah Edwards, Trying/To be an ant
Mapping of Female Ejaculation
Sadia Hassan, BEGIN AGAIN
DEMETER: CASSETTE 3
upfromsumdirt, Abstrack Africana
John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go
Drylongso)
Preeti Parikh, THE [ ] OF SKIN
OF THE BODY | YOUR [ ] CATCHES YOU
Mya Matteo Alexice, In Which Belief Comes To Me Briefly and Dissipates Just
as Quickly
emet ezell, POEM FOR FAMILIAL ESTRANGEMENT
Alexa Luborsky, Key
Caesar Cipher
Kimberly Reyes, Ascension
Wendy M. Thompson, Once a Wife, Always a Mother
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller, Metropolis Golem
Mason Wray, Signal Decay: Springtime
Signal Decay: Aphasia
Shakeema Smalls, Kitchen Conjure
Max Early, Bessie’s Transmission
Mónica A. Jiménez, Moribundo
DeeSoul Carson, golden shovel at the shore of lake lanier
Jie Cohen, Agdistis II
Kieron Walquist, XXX
Jessica Dionne, ge·oph·a·gy
Miscarriage
Gavin Yuan Gao, Ghost Money
Mark Kyungsoo Bias, OLD SONG
Rara Avis, “Paula, after Ruination”
fiction
Thaai Walker, Flight
Emily Giangiulio, natura morta / still life
nonfiction
Amanda E. Scott, A Room So Ancient I Almost Forgot
Jaime Grechika, Where I’m From
Summer C.J. Wrobel, A God for My Mother
Maggie Boyd Hare, Self Portrait in Essays I Don’t Want to Write
S.J. Ghaus, Touching Sound
translation
Mona Kareem translated by Sara Elkamel, Body of Light
The Sublime
Ma Yan translated by Winnie Zeng, Sunday, I Sit on Glass......
Magnús Sigurðsson translated by Mark Ioli, This World, Like Any Other
Cho Ji Hoon translated by Sekyo Nam Haines, Moonlight Song
Blood-Hued Tree Ring
Juana Bignozzi translated by Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman,
I am a unproblematic woman
Estefanía González translated by Will Howard, Ring
art
Natalia Bosques Chico, Lector
Rara Avis, Crooner
Starflake and Camery
Steven Luna, To Our Loved Ones: Nanny
To Our Loved Ones: Nadya and Zoila
To Our Loved Ones: Margarita Luna 1
To Our Loved Ones: Margarita Luna 2
To Our Loved Ones: Marybel and Maria