Ellen Wiener, Red Tower, 10.75 x 7.5 inches, ink, oil, pencil, wax, digital ink jet and gold paste on Awagami paper.
Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“Poetic Justice, Poetic Care: A Chorus” — by Andrea Applebee
“The Primal Wound: Viewing and Reviewing Personal History” – a conversation with Megan Galbraith and a folio of hybrid writing – curated by Emma Bolden
“The Transmutation of Fire: An Interview with Michael Prior” – curated by Wendy Chen
“‘A much-needed sense of joy’: A Conversation with Geoffrey Gatza about Writing, Publishing, and Fiction for Young Readers” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Brand New Spacesuit: A Conversation with John Gallaher & A Folio of New Work” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘I want to drown in poetry’: A Conversation with Johannes Goransson & a Folio of New Work” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘We have responsibilities to our stories: A Conversation with Writer & Artist Amalia Melis” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“American Faith: A Conversation with Poet & Editor Maya Popa” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Banff Literary Translation Centre: A Celebration” — curated & introduced by Jesse Lee Kercheval
“Fragments of the vanishing speech: Contemporary Slovak Poetry” — curated by Lucia Duero and Jesse Lee Kercheval
“New Collections of Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus” – curated by Dora Malech & Katherine Hollander
“The Corporeal Nature of the In-Between: Identities and Migration in Grace Talusan’s The Body Papers” – by Shannon Nakai
“The Conditions that Make Our Story Possible: A Conversation with Cassie Donish” – by Zach Savich
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
“The Desert Doesn’t Know” & “Love Lyric” — by Jessica Abughattas
Curated & introduced by Victoria Chang
“Restorations” — by Rebecca Morgan Frank
Curated & introduced by Simone Muench
“Short enough to be interesting, long enough to cover the subject.” — by Heather McHugh
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
“Pandemic” & “Pandemic (Reprise)” — Nils Michals
Curated & introduced by Seth Brady Tucker
“All Our Lazy Sundays,” “Waiting for the Sun,” & “A Few Examples from the Catalogue of Love” — Brian Turner
Curated & introduced by Seth Brady Tucker
Editors’ Selections in Visual Art
curated & introduced by Elaine Sexton
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Chloe Honum & Jacob Shores-Argüello — Two Poetry Films: “Birthday at Motel 6” & “At the Garden Inn in Blytheville, Arkansas”
Mary Kathryn Jablonski & Laura Frare – A Collaborative Film: “Five Easy Pieces”
Ryan Mihaly & Karolina Zapal — A Collaborative Poem & Performance: “Kwarantanna | Quarantine”
With contributions by:
Mary-Kim Arnold
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Danielle Dutton
Amy E. Elkins
Camille Guthrie
Lucy Ives
Ashley Lamb
Poupeh Missaghi
Lisa Pearson
Chet’la Sebree
Poetry
Kaveh Bassiri — “Practice Exercises”
Julie Carr — A Folio of Poetry
Gabriel Fine — “Ars Oblivionalis”
Elisa Gabbert — “Malice & the Unknown”
Lauren Hilger — “Apostasy” & “In Her Study”
Hannah Hirsh — “Arts de Vivre,” “A Problem of Perception,” & “Winter Précis”
Christen Noel Kauffman — “Meditation on Burning”
Aaron LoPatin — “Fragments of a Prayer: I II, IV”
Ayrton Lopez — “Intensive Care”
Jenny Minniti-Shippey — “Poem with Ghost and Aloe Vera” & “how much absence the body can hold”
Brianna Noll — “This Servant of God Does Not Have a Mind of Peace.”
Jeffrey Pethybridge – A Folio of Poetry
Doug Ramspeck — “the brothers’ one true home is inside their bodies,” “the geography where the boys live includes an unlatched gate” & “there is inside the boys a trajectory”
Michael Robins — “In Lieu of Flowers”
Sharanya Sharma — “god, i know why the bhagavad gita is only ever told to us through a charioteer” & “my name won’t fit inside this poem’s gut”
Stephanie Strickland – A Folio of Poetry
Matthew Tuckner — “What I Was”
Jane Zwart — “The Consolations”
Prose
Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade — “Square One” & “Second Person”
Greg Emilio — “Negroni (and Eros) the Bittersweet: A Fugue in Forty Tasting Notes”
Lise Goett — “All Lit From The Ground Up: An Essay on Poetics”
David Harris Gershon — “Orbital Reflector”
Carol Guess & Susanne Paola Antonetta – “The Desk”
Brandon Shimoda — from Tomb Model of a Noble’s House
Translation
Juan Arabia – “The Bund” – translated by Gwendolyn Osterwald
Margarita Ardasheva — “Tamara Khristoforovna” — translated by Maria Guzenko
Agustín Cadena – “The Dream Team” – translated by Patricia Dubrava
Jacqueline Goldberg – “Dublin” & “Transverse Maladies” — translated by William Blair, with Consuelo Méndez
Helena Granström — from The Possibility of Love — translated by Kira Josefsson
Aleš Šteger — “Thirst” & “Lullaby” — translated by Brian Henry
Tue Sy – “Sitting in the Graveyard” & “Refrains for Piano” – translated by Nguyen Ba Chung & Martha Collins