“July 14, a bit of shade becomes a blessing” by Alexandra Huddleston.
Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“‘Daughters live in places the men cannot access’: A Conversation with Lindsey Drager” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘The beginning of a darkness that descends’: A Conversation with Matthew Rohrer” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘We can each dream to be a different poet from who we are’: A Conversation with Galician Poet Yolanda Castaño” – curated by Ming Di
“‘The language of our dreams’: A Conversation with Indonesian Poet Saut Situmorang” – curated by Ming Di
“‘Showcasing the region’s diversity’: On New Poetry from the Midwest“ – by Okla Elliott & Hannah Stephenson
“‘An Inheritance of Riches’: A Portfolio of Contemporary Uruguayan Women Poets” – curated and introduced by Jesse Lee Kercheval
“Micro(inter)view with Suzanne Buffam: How Not To Kill The Baby” – curated by Lisa Olstein
Editors’ Selections
Mary Jo Bang – from A Doll for Throwing
Introduced by Shane McCrae
Natalie Catasús – “Right-Here Man”
Introduced by Cassandra Cleghorn
Tyler Mills – from Exposure
Introduced by Virginia Konchan
Jennifer Moore – “Domestic Noir II”
Introduced by Virginia Konchan
Kathleen Peirce – “At Intervals” and “School”
Introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Henk Rossouw – from Xamissa
Introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Prose
Guy Choate – “The Yellow House”
C.W. Emerson – “The Space Between Bodies”
Susan Sample – “Coming to Terms”
Suzanne Scanlon – from View from the 17th Floor
Translation
Miguel Ángel Bustos – “Goodbye to You” – Translated by Lucina Schell
Agustín Cadena – “The Apaches of Kiev” – Translated by C.M. Mayo
João Luís Barreto Guimarães – “The Efficacy of the Light” and “Confession of Hippocrates to Kos” – Translated by Calvin Olsen
Alejandro Saravia – “Montreal, Zero Hour” – Translated by María José Giménez
Li Qingzhao – “The Approach of Happiness,” “Rows of Small Mountains,” and “Proud Fisherman” – Translated by Wendy Chen
“Call and Response” Poetry Contest
Judge’s Citation by Darcie Dennigan
Winner
Andrea Read – “Fox Wants Death, Rabbit Wants Flames of Thread”
Finalists
Erin Bertram – “There is a Wilderness, There Will Always Be”
Justin Bigos – “Late Twentieth Century in the Form of Litany”
Michelle Bitting – “Glimmers and Limbo (Fugue State #1)”
Kathy Evans – “I Am Letting You In”
Eva Heisler – “Museum Sickness”
Christine Hemp – “Beyond All That”
Semifinalists
Rachel Abramowitz – “Love Letter”
Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano – “Jointly Responsible”
John Blair – “The Morning After the War”
Noah Falck & Matt McBride – from Vocal Air
Elizabeth Forsythe – “archaic fragment” and “the brain blown wide”
Rachel Galvin – “Piano, Piano”
Laurie Macfee – “In Beckett’s Waiting Room”
Kyle McCord – “Father’s Brain Scan Seen as Model Bomber Cutaway”
Carrie Nassif – “Pictures I Took From Space”
Jennifer Stella – “The Tuskegee Experiment”
Sarah Ann Winn – “Lunar Chart, Lost Year”
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Alexandra Huddleston & Robert Huddleston – from Pied Beauty
Anita Olivia Koester – “Confessions of a Childless Woman (fig. 1&2)”
Sandy Longhorn – from 20 x 20: A Self-Exphrasis
Meredith Stricker, Mayaan Tsadka, & Kumi Uyeda – “Your Coral Flower”
“Tales We Tell” – Dean Young, Farid Matuk, Susan Briante, & other contemporary poets in collaboration with Yuliya Lanina
Visual Art: 3 Portfolios
Interviews with writer/artists Terry Castle, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Aaron Smith – curated by visual arts editor Elaine Sexton.