Cover artwork courtesy of James Mercer.
Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“What right does the elegist have to speak for the dead?”: A Conversation with Whitney Koo on Any Gesture — curated by Wendy Chen
“Clear-Eyed Wondering: A Conversation with Michael Basset about Cloudwatcher” — curated by Liz Powell
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
Nicole Allensworth – A Portfolio of Poetry
Gale Batchelder – A Portfolio of Poetry
Bruce Bond – A Portfolio of Poetry
Sarah Giragosian – A Portfolio of Poetry
Editor’s Selections in Visual Art
Each artist selected & introduced by Christine Kelly.
From All Angles: A Sampling of Contemporary Hybridity
Curated by Linda Michel-Cassidy
Jesse Albatrosova – A-Sides & Besides: A Folio of Hybrid Poetry
David Booth – A Folio of Hybrid Poetry
Montserrat Andrée Carty – “Still Life, or, Migratory Restlessness“
Keith Pilapil Lesmeister – “The (unseasonable) Summer of Our (unreasonable) (Dis)Content”
Amanda Moore – A Folio of Hybrid Poetry
Ambiguity is Key: A Special Guest-Edited Folio
Curated by Bronwyn Mills
Leonard Schwartz – The Blonde Raven: A Folio of Poetry
&: experiments in collaborative composition
Curated & introduced by Kate Bolton Bonnici
Fred D’Aguiar – A Folio of Poetry
Alice Dailey & Adam Dailey – “Love Poem with Ectoplasmic Materializations”
Meg Day & Kristin V. Rehder – Poems & Photographs
Cherene Sherrard – A Folio of Poetry
Genre-Bending, Gender-Breaking: A Folio of Queered Poetics
Curated & introduced by Camilo Bonilla
Kay Ulanday Barrett – “For the Aswangs who are your best friends (a triad)”
Ching-In Chen – “Spell for Learning How to Break”
Cai Sherley – “Mandela Effect”
féi iká shumarí – “Saáyawi or Sal de Víbora de Cascabel”
The Richness and Multifariousness of the “Lyric We:” A Special Guest-Edited Folio
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Community Can Kill You – and Resurrect You: Making & Movement: Being a Vision Poet by Kristine Esser Slentz
Heart of the Heartlands: A conversation with Sylvia Thomas on artistic community & survival, and gay porno mags—Curated by Kristine Esser Slentz
Bound for Someplace Beautiful: A Review of Jesse Millner’s Gina by K.B. Canaday
Beehives, Interstates, & Parables: A Conversation with Adam O. Davis about Pyrrhic Symphony—curated by Tiffany Troy
An idea of the infinite blue: An Interview with Aiden Heung about All There is to Lose—curated by Tiffany Troy
The Lyric We: A Conversation with Joshua Bennett about We (the People of the United States)—curated by Tiffany Troy
Into the Mess: A Conversation with Kristine Esser Slentz about face-to-faces—curated by Tiffany Troy
The clatter of a poet trying to imagine: A Conversation with Mandy Moe Pwint Tu about Fablemaker—curated by Tiffany Troy
Memory is Multimedia: A Conversation with Mina Khan about Night Shift in Perfect English—curated by Tiffany Troy
Veering loss towards abundance: A Conversation with Preeti Vangani about Fifty Mothers—curated by Tiffany Troy
Listen to the Quiet: A Conversation with Rebecca Gayle Howell about Erase Genesis—curated by Tiffany Troy
Light is a form of pursuit, ongoing: A Conversation with Rhoni Blankenhorn about Room for the Dead and the Not Yet—curated by Tiffany Troy
A Love Letter and Elegy: A Conversation with Tina Chang about LION—curated by Tiffany Troy
A Surfeit of Yearnings: A Conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum about My Lover, the Rabbi—curated by Tiffany Troy
A Celebration of Literary Criticism
Critical Takes: Kathleen Bednarek & Cristina Deptula on David Breskin’s Timestamp
The Literature of Repair by Jeffrey Levine
Self and the City: Ilya Kaminsky and Piotr Florczyk’s Within, Without by H. L. Hix
Building a House to Locate Ourselves: A Review of Jennifer S. Cheng’s House A by Nicole Allensworth
The Seed Dark in the Light of Spices: Jenny Grassl on Yamini Pathak’s Her Mouth a Palace of Lamps
“for the diaspora of my negation”: Miriam Calleja on Preeti Parikh’s Blue Selvage
Make It Archaic: H. L. Hix on Marc Vincenz’s irØnclad
Henry Sussman on the Poetry of Richard Jeffrey Newman
Robert Dunsdon on Pamela Wax’s Every Single Beast of My Heart