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Susan Aizenberg
Charm Against Recollection
Carol Alexander
In New York, the Spring
Nin Andrews
An Abstinent Orgasm
The Orgasm Bitches about What People Think of Her
Daniel Aristi
Natura non constristatur
Simon Anton Nin Diego Baena
Aftermath
Ned Balbo
Greeting the Monarchs
The Lizards of Amherst
Were-Jaguar
J. T. Barbarese
Windows
The Dying Goose
Hurricane
Walter Bargen
God's Juice
Lost Music
Egyptian Pole Barn
Caroline Barnes
Family Photograph Sestina
I Paint the Heaven of My Sister
Brian Beatty
Making Sense of Silence
Roy Bentley
Beauty and the Burden of Being
Paul Bergstraesser
Two Sisters Dancing
John Biguenet
The March
Song of an Older Sister
Marsha Blitzer
Missing the Mark
Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Meditation on Preparing a Soft-Boiled Egg
Bruce Bond
The Harvest
Authentic
The Lost
Scar
Roger Bonner
Dead Flowers
John Bowden
Fish Sticks
Ash Bowen
The Lost Boy
Christopher Buckley
Guardian Angel
Articles of Faith
Elegy
Robert Campbell
You'll Never Amount to Anything Here
Kelly Canaday
A Post-Apocalyptic Highway
Wendy Cannella
The Jersey Devil Speaks in American Sentences
Bitch
Ian Cappelli
You Had Just Learned About Castle Doctrine
Richard Carr
Silence
Being
Anthony Chalk
Postmodern End Times
Don Colburn
This Time
Brendan Constantine
The Lost Poem
If Time
Please Rate Your Inexperience
Peter Cooley
Liminalities
Morri Creech
The Sentence
House of Correction
Peter J. Curry
Incident on the Bridge
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Dreaming of Lillian Gish
Jim Daniels
To Tell You the Truth
Nursing the Wounds
Ode to My Father's Bowling Balls
Lifetime High
R. C. deWinter
family picnic
Anthony DiMatteo
Zoom
John Philip Drury
Curriculum Vitae
Gossip
Denise Duhamel
What Would Cheesy Rice Do?
Girly
Fry Daddy
Bobby K. Fauna
Chapel
Emma Fenton
Glossary of Bruises
Scott Ferry
kidneys (shaoyin)
brain (sea of marrow)
yin/yang
Gary Fincke
The Nuclear Age: The Early Years
After the Election News, Human Subjects
George Franklin
The Angel of Sorrow Drinks Wine in the Tavern
The Angel of Sorrow Describes the World to Come
The Angel Leaves
Ian Ganassi
Utility Belt
Open Conspiracies
Helicon
David Garyan
Heading West
Christien G. Gholson
Solutions for the End of the World
Robert Gibb
Lament for the Cardinals
Stephen Gibson
Love in a Time of Plague
Multiple Pieta
1975 AP Photo from Cambodia
Michael Goodfellow
Diesel
George Guida
Tuesday Evening
Ian T. Hall
Otherlight
Hormonal
John Hamel
Sphinx
Ellis Hampton
The Convention of Us
Lois Marie Harrod
That Night
Lola Haskins
Walking at Night
Tyler Heath
parTy
William Heath
Guru Maharaj Ji
Max Heinegg
Burroughs
Dennis Hinrichsen
[To Nicanor Parra at the Edge of Time] [w/ Scotty Moore on Guitar]
John Hodgen
Weep
Matt Hohner
Vacancy Inspection, Bachman Valley Road
Diane Hueter
Annie Oakley on her Death Bed
Charles Hughes
Recurrent
Henry Hughes
Our Drinking
The Teaching of Sergeant Dark
Jonathan Kline
After the Funeral
Public School
Lynne Knight
Manifesto Written in an Expense of Spirit
The Quiet Ones
Kip Knott
Tonight I Drink Alone
Sheree La Puma
Equanimity/Lost
Kaci Skiles Laws
Mama Rage
Sydney Lea
Animate Objects: A Corona Quarantine Sequence
Paul Daniel Lee
Movements
Poem for a Future Anthropologist
Julia Levine
Make of Me a Metaphor That Does Not Depend on Violence
Xiaoly Li
Andrew Jackson's Hermitage
Timothy Liu
All-time Low
Hot Spots
William Logan
Sauks at Jefferson Barracks, 1834
All Points Bulletin
Lord of the Manor
Michael Lynch
When I Consider How My Liver Is Spent
Mary Makofske
Tuck Fear in a Pocket
Michael Martin
It Won't Be Easy
Balloon Dog
Deborah McAlister
Pandemic Dream #7
Brendan McEntee
Reading Ray Carver
Mee-ok
hook
no vacancies
Peter Meinke
Da Vinci Rondeau
Aria to 'La Donna' in Rigoletto
Michael Meyerhofer
Columbus Day
David P. Miller
Mutual Encouragement
Robert Miltner
Book of Ghosts
The Tunnel
Juan Mobili
The Witness
Berwyn Moore
The Banker's Wife Croons Fear
Fred Muratori
Uphill
Afforestation Ode
Empiricism 101
The Amnesiac's Scrapbook
Paul Nelson
A Rescue
Paul Nemser
Near-Sonnet with Homunculus
Lorrie Ness
Mama's Uniform
Dustin Nightingale
the Pop D.J. Request Hour
The Traveling Circus
To the Woman Running Against the Dark
Letter to the Editor
The Reverend in the Lighthouse
Edward Nudelman
Corvus
Christina Olson
After the Tragedy
Heavy Weather Moves Through
Jury Selection
[we moved to a city]
Katiane Olson
Artifact
Kirby Olson
Lincoln
Robert Parham
Days of Light and Dark
Ilari Pass
Deadalus
Cheryl Passanisi
Pink
Luke Patterson
Wilderness Survival
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Key Largo, Nightfall
Cognate, Port Largo
Cytokine Storm, the Croc in Plague Time
Alexandria Peary
Landfill Basics, The White Paper
Bowl of Fruit No. 1
Kate Peper
A Parasitic Twin Talks to His Brother
George Perreault
Manifest
Marc Pietrzykowski
Migrations Large and Small
Will the Circle be Unbroken
Things Ain't What They Used to Be
Kenneth Pobo
Theme for English C
Some Revisionist History
Homero Pumarol
A Hero for Our Times
Lawrence Raab
Moment by Moment
One of Those Secret Lives
Perhaps
A Little Music
James Redfern
Evaporation Pools
they use meat hooks
LA Renza
Pandimiki Metafora
Ron Riekki
Merry Crisis
An Amublance Crashed into Another Ambulance
After working seventy hours again for what exhaustion
Brad Rose
Same-Day Delivery
Michael Salcman
A Memory of Malaga
Nicholas Samaras
Instructions for Children Who Consider Running Away [24]
Instructions for Children Who Consider Running Away [28]
Instructions for Children Who Consider Running Away [30]
Instructions for Children Who Consider Running Away [31]
Instructions for Children Who Consider Running Away [32]
Instructions for Children Who Consider Running Away [34]
Instructions for Children Who Consider Running Away [37]
Linda Scheller
Birthday Party: 1966
Michael Schmeltzer
Gibbous. Crescent. Cruel.
In the Valley of Snow Water is Criminal
E. M. Schorb
My War with Roaches
Heidi Seaborn
All I Ever Wanted
Following the Script
Judith Skillman
A Landscaped Garden, for the Addict
Floyd Skloot
Pocket Billiards, Long Beach NY, 1958
Ron Smith
Public Servant, Country Squire
Mark Spitzer
Plastic Plasma Paradox
Upon Hearing a Comment at the P.O. During a Global Pandemic
Marjorie Stelmach
Flyover
In All True Elixirs
Shelby Stephenson
Long Ago: Writing Sorrow's Bargain
The Graveyard Across the Road
Ron Stottlemyer
Sitting Ducks
Mo Lynn Stoycoff
Love Letter to Tom Waits
Aaron Jacob Styza
Blessed
Kirk Swearingen
On William Tyndale
Larissa Szporluk
Lederhosen
Phil Tabakow
Obituary for a Parallel Universe
Adam Tavel
Belated Elegy for Paul Taylor, Tory Loyalist, Lynched in 1780
At Birth
Dylan Taylor
Samewords
Hereobjects
Timewas
Richard Terrill
The New Poetry
Susan Terris
Earworm
Lynne Thompson
The Blue Haze
Richard Tillinghast
The Boar
Or
A flutter of fabric
Matthew A. Toll
Let Me
William Trowbridge
Fool Under the Big Top
Mutiny on the Bounty: The Secret Report
Alison Turner
from The Covid Notebooks
M. A. Untch
Fresh Kill
David van den Berg
Prosperity Gospel Blues
Eileen Van Hook
Broken Limb
Maryfrances Wagner
Fracture
Raccoon on the Path
J. E. A. Wallace
A Tale of Complicated Shivering
LaWanda Walters
Canoe on the Chesapeake
Donna Weaver
A Basket & a Bag
Jonah Winter
The Horseshoe Curve
Eve of St. Agnes
Problematic Sestina
Pantaloons
Robert Wrigley
Regalia
After the Big Melt
Poets of Interest in this issue:
Bruce Bond |
![]() Julia Levine |
![]() Ricardo Pau-Llosa |
![]() Marjorie Stelmach |
![]() Larissa Szporluk |