Ellen Mueller. “Survival Skills: Feasting,” 2018, mixed media collage, 5”x7.”
Editorial Features
“Girl Breaking Glass: Reflections on Embodied Identity” – by Andrea Applebee
“‘In a chapbook, every poem has great weight and responsibility’: A Conversation with Chaun Ballard & A Folio of New Poetry” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘The poem becomes the vessel for mystical experience’: A Conversation with Janaka Stucky” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘Confront them first, then sing them a lullaby’: A Conversation with Translator Jake Levine & A Folio of New Work” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘Sound follows the sense and sense follows the sound’—An Interview with Mexican Poet Alí Calderón” – curated by Ming Di
“An Empty Chair Grows into a Forest—30 Years’ Poetry of Resistance in China” – by Ming Di
“Translation Feature: Mexico, Uruguay, Two Poets in Conversation Across Generations” – curated & introduced by Jesse Lee Kercheval
“Luck: A Conversation with Kelvin Christopher James & a New Story” – curated by Bronwyn Mills
“‘Staying in Range’: An Interview with Rodrigo Toscano and a Portfolio of New Work from In Range” – curated by Henk Rossouw
“‘Cryptography’: An Interview with Kylan Rice and a New Essay” – conducted by Zach Savich
Editors Selections in Poetry & Prose
Melissa Crowe – “Say” & “Benediction with Foundlings”
Curated & introduced by dawn lonsinger
Timothy Donnelly – “What Is Real”
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Diamond Forde – “fat girl Confuses Food & Therapy, Again” & “On the Way Home from a Business Trip, fat girl Pulls into a McDonald’s Drive-Thru in a Town She’ll Never See Again”
Curated & introduced by Claudia Cortese
Sarah Giragosian – “Missing Person”
Curated & introduced by Virginia Konchan
Anna Maria Hong – “Ouranus”
Curated & introduced by Simone Muench
Brynn Saito – “First Lines” & “Last Lines”
Curated & introduced by Traci Brimhall
Ginny Threefoot – “ambiguities of sound” & “ambiguities of childhood”
Curated & introduced by Elizabeth Robinson
Editors’ Selections in Visual Art
Each artist chosen & interviewed by Elaine Sexton
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Kristy Bowen – from [licorice, laudanum]
Adrian Arias & Julie Carr – “Installation 7”
Julie Carr & Serena Chopra – “Installation 1”
Julie Carr& Yanara Friedland – “Installation 8”
John Gallaher– Brand New Spacesuit: A Folio of Collages
kerry rawlinson – from Filthy Lucre: “Blood Money,” “Red Ink,” “Bottom Lines,” “Sell Out,” & “Sewn Up”
Joshua Marie Wilkinson – “Rabbit Light Movies: A Retrospective”
Joshua Young – Two Poetry Films: “Wyoming” & “Hence”
Joshua Young & Dark Sparkler – An Experimental Film: “Can You Hear the Cicadas Over the Sirens”
Poetry
Rachel Abramowitz – “Gut Lust”
Hala Alyan – “Ode to the Damsel” and “They Both Die on Mondays in April”
Amanda Auerbach – “Dream Log 1”
Tara Ballard – “Genealogy, Ending in a Suicide”
C.S. Carrier – “The Green House”
Matthew Gellman – “Special Report, After Rain”
Chloe Honum – “Luna Moth at Night,” “New England Lyric,” “What I’m Working On Now,” & “Self-portrait with Praying Mantis and Endurance”
Danusha Lameris – “Ashbuds” & “Ladybugs”
Patrick Meeds – “Each One Is a Tiny Sun”
Michael Montlack – “The Court Jester” & “Is Richard Simmons missing? Or is he just dearly missed?”
Rebecca Morton – “I write to you from a”
Genevieve Paiement – “Heavenly Mother”
Megan Pinto – “After Odysseus”
Elizabeth A.I. Powell – “When the Insemination Man Comes to the Farm”
Simon Shieh – “Like Being in Love”
Emily Stoddard – “Divination with a Human Heart Attached”
Yerra Sugarman – “Aunt Bird, Conjured”
Cole Swensen – “Elements of the Garden”
Sasha West – “A Forgery of History”
Jordan Windholz – “The Sisters as Lies” & “The Sisters as Sisters”
Nicholas Yingling – “I Take Shelter under the Stables”
Prose
Laurie Blauner – “A Brief Catastrophe”
Kate Bolton Bonnici – “On Emily Dickinson’s Gorgeous Nothings: Responses in Miniature”
Jana Harris – from Blowing Smoke: A Compendium of Everyday Excuses: “The Diet,” “Las Vegas,” “The Spare Room Closet,” & “L’Affaire”
Christina Milletti – an excerpt from Choke Box: a Fem-Noir: “Composition Axe”
Elizabeth A.I. Powell – “Some Girls Write a Fearless and Moral Inventory”
Viviane Vives – “La Virgen de la Candela”
Translation
Erika Almenara – “Annunciation” – translated by Emily Aguayo
Guido Cupani – Meno Universo: “1,2,3,” “01:00,” & “22:40” – translated by Patrick Williamson
Ignacio Fernández de Palleja – “I run naked” and “I’ve been a time-/ wasting machine.” – translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin
Kristín Eiríksdóttir – “Evelyn Hates Her Name” – translated by Larissa Kyzer
Juan Gelman – Today/Hoy – translated by Lisa Rose Bradford
Alexey Porvin – “A Few Banal Modes of Liberation and a Stroll Along the Broad Gauge Tracks” – translated by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
Marko Tomaš – “Yello Marko” – translated by Rachael Daum