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Dilruba Ahmed
When the Time Comes
Ralph Angel
Untitled (against the slope)
Untitled (the dream is crying)
Untitled (I stared at the glint)
Untitled (When time settles)
Christopher Bakken
Exile in a Thrift-Store Landscape
Jacqueline Balderrama
Cancion de Cuna
Zero, 2018
Joan Baranow
Anthology: a collection of flowers
From This Distance
Ash Bowen
AM/FM
Birds and dthe Way They Understand Love
Going to Your Funeral in a Vee-Eight Ford
Ronda Broatch
Instead of Death I Welcome the Stranger
In Dreams, My Ancestors
Sumita Chakraborty
Arrow
Essay on the Order of Time
Adam Chiles
Hitchhiking at Nineteen
The Letter
Shadow
Michael Chitwood
First Loss
The Potato Eaters
Norman Dubie
Not Before but After Us
Kristina Erny
Elijah and the Widow
Elijah Fed by Ravens
Robert Froese
Under the North
Kathryn Haemmerle
Mid-Febraury at Navy Pier
Peripheries
Erin Lambert Hartman
An Apology to Edgar Allan Poe
By You
Why I Left Academe for Massage Therapy
Dennis Hinrichsen
[box of light with Keats in it] [& an iPhone] [& a boy]
Henry Israeli
Between the Trees
Pain Is Never Done
So Many Promises
Cyan James
Agnostic Wandering
Old Spice & Cordite
L. A. Johnson
Whiteout
Anna Leigh Knowles
Aftermath
Escape Plans
On Lockdown
Larry Levis
Fish
William Logan
Daumier, Man on a Rope
En Plein Air
Julio Monteiro Martins
Coupling
Amber McBride
for Colored Kids Building Up Their Bones
Darren Morris
On Learning That I Can No Longer See the Stars
Sofia Yakovlevna Parnok
Cigarette after cigarette
Our Passion's still carefree, still young
Catie Rosemurgy
Diorama (the young soldier returning to duty)
Diorama (there is a love story)
Diorama (a moment with the doctor)
Diorama (trapper standing over a young woman in a blue dress)
Diorama (young woman lying on the ground in a blue dress)
Diorama (map legend)
Ira Sadoff
Interior with Mickey Mantle
Self-Portrait with Michelangelo
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
In the Museum of the Nineteenth Century, the Lights Are Coming On
The Literary Scholar
Pteridomaniac
Cherene Sherrard
The Turtle Cure
Ron Smith
Orvieto
Allison Stine
Finding Other Uses on Earth
Svetlana Turetskaya
A Soviet Painting by Nikolai Solomin, She Did Not Wait
Swan Lake with Dostoevsky
Jessie Van Eerden
Meet You at the Dollar General Across from the Family Dollar
Kathleen Winter
Bystanders
Killarney
Trespass
Annie Woodford
And So the Beauty of Lilies Falls on Angels and Man
Great Road
Jenny Xie
Borderless
Ongoing
Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season
Maya Jewell Zeller
Benediction Remembering Sunrise and Fawn, with a Trip to the Planetarium
spell for their belly buttons/ with a dictionary clogging its wind pipe
Poets of Interest in this issue:
![]() Ralph Angel |
![]() Sumita Chakraborty |
![]() Norman Dubie |
![]() Larry Levis |
![]() Catie Rosemurgy |
![]() Kathleen Winter |
![]() Jenny Xie |
![]() Maya Jewell Zeller |