Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“‘A subversive cloistered experience’: A Conversation with Selah Saterstrom” – curated by Mary-Kim Arnold
“Joanna Penn Cooper Interviews Cynthia Arrieu-King: A Conversation on Form and The Betweens” – curated and introduced by Emma Bolden
“‘Joyful Solitude’: A Conversation with Mark Wunderlich” – curated by Victoria Chang
“The Sharpener: A Third Space for Poetry: An Interview with Sean Singer” – curated by Cassandra Cleghorn
“Travel, Lived Experience, and the Craft of Fiction: A Conversation with Clifford Garstang” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘Literature is an exercise in empathy’: A Conversation with Ming Lauren Holden” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘Carrier for an oracle’: A Conversation with Stelios Mormoris” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘Fearlessness and willingness’: A Conversation with Cindy Savett about Elegy & Jean Valentine” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“#wearedaphne: A Conversation with Abigail Ardelle Zammit” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘Am I a Citizen Consumer or a Child of God?’: A Conversation with Poet Virginia Konchan” – curated by Eileen G’Sell
“The Low Road: A Neo-Epic for Troubled Times” – by Virginia Konchan
“‘Hope and kindness, redemption and respect’: A Conversation with Tommy Zurhellen” – curated by Virginia Konchan
“‘On Leaving and Those We Left Behind’: A Conversation with Joanne Nelson” – curated by Linda Michel-Cassidy
“‘Pour Forth Into That Vessel’: A Conversation with Camille Guthrie” – curated by Lisa Olstein
“‘Form is the means by which subject matter comes to life’: A Conversation with Sandra Lim” – curated by Lisa Olstein
“‘What is life without light after all’: A Conversation with Tomas Morin” – curated by Lisa Olstein
“‘Forms of attention and assembly’: A Conversation with Hoa Nguyen” – curated by Lisa Olstein
“The Canvas Underneath: An Interview with Carrie Olivia Adams” – conducted by Zach Savich
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
“The Center” by Darcie Abbene
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
A Folio of Poetry by Cynie Cory
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
“You Play a Game” by Gabriel Houck
Curated & introduced by Seth Brady Tucker
A Folio of Poetry by David Kirby
Curated & introduced by Seth Brady Tucker
“The beginning” by Ayomide Festus
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
An Excerpt from And the Category Is...Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker
Curated & introduced by Laura Cronk
Editors’ Selections in Visual Art
Each artist chosen by Kristina Marie Darling
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
What Only Poetry Can Do: A Song Cycle with Poetry by Barbara Crooker and Julie Cane, Set to Music by Dale Trumbore
“Brood” & “My Grandmother Tells Me: A Portrait” – Ashley Dailey
A Folio of Visual Poems – Kylie Q. Gellatly
A Folio of Erasures – Lisa Huffaker
“Learning to Fly” – Laci Mosier
“The Gleam” – Poetry by Robin Myers, Set To Music by Dale Trumbore
“A Porcelain Doll: A Collaborative Libretto” – Brent Newsom & James Vernon
“Via Dolorosa: an Autoethnography of Townes Van Zandt” – Coyote Shook
Poetry
Tara Ballard — “Confession,” “Waiting for Rain,” & “With or Without a Hypothesis”
Nicole Cooley — “Trash (I)” & “Trash (II)”
Aiden Forster — “Aubade with Bottom Envy”
Maurya Kerr — “A Toast, to the Enslaved and to the Free”
Peter Leight — “Self-Portrait as an Interested Person Who’s Looking for Something Beautiful,” “Self-Portrait as a Restless Person Who’s Not Disappointing You” & “Self-Portrait as a Pilot of the Free Will”
Calgary Martin — “Offloading the Ballast” & “It Was Summer Every Day in Brooklyn”
Julia Morrison — “Footnote to a Blizzard” & “Stackars Lilla Basse”
Lena Moses-Schmidt — “Dear Future Me (#12)” & “Recovering”
Olivia Murphy-Sokolowski — “Almonds”
Katie Naughton — “debt ritual: class”
John Parish — “Asleep on Park Bench with Palmer and Fowler’s Fieldbook of Natural History Used as Pillow”
Annie Przypyszny — “Axel Gets Lost in the Cavern in Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Solomons Riverwalk” & “On an Illustration from a Gardening Magazine”
Michael Robins — “Diamond Shoals”
Makshya Tolbert — “SOUNDING IS NAMING THE GAP” & “—XENOLALIA, OR TALKING WHITE:”
Stephen Scott Whitaker — “Magic” & “Queer the Woods”
Charity Yoro — A Folio of Poetry
Prose
Zack Finch — “Imitation of Life”
Barbara Huddleston — “Beyond Dread: A Review-Essay on Elizabeth Metzger’s Bed”
Boyer Rickel — from True Confessions (and brief dreams) in a Time of Pandemic
Aline Soules — “On Paul Nemser’s A Thousand Curves”
Jennifer K. Sweeney — “Realia”
Dale Trumbore — “Falling Triptych”
Jerry Whitus — “A House in the Woods”
Jane Zwart — “Dear Specimen: A Book Review”
Alexis David — “On Jennifer Militello’s The Pact”
Translation
Lu Di — “In the Subway” — translated by Xu Jiantong
Yu Nu — “Something More Distant” & “Whispering” — translated by Pan Jiawei
Antonia Pozzi — “Meadows” — translated by Amy Newman
Zhao Si — “In a Flash of Lightning” & “Rondo” — translated by Bruce Meyer with Xuan Yuan & Tim Lilburn
Anne Weber — from Annette — translated by Neil Blackadder
Xiao Yin — “Asian orphans” & “1989, the year flooded with wheat” — translated by Mimi Chang