Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“We continue to consume the things that are consuming us”: A Conversation with Alex Mattraw & a Portfolio of Multi-Disciplinary Work — curated by Mary- Kim Arnold
The Slaughterhouse and Sanctuaries of Angelo Mao’s Abattoir — by Amanda Auerbach
“From counting syllables religiously to letting the page’s white space speak”: A Conversation with Poet, Editor, & Entrepreneur Nick Courtright — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“I bring ideas into conversation”: A Conversation with Diarist & Antipoet Kenning JP Garcia — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
The Distaff Side: A Conversation with Mary Leader about Poetry, Feminism, and Textiles – curated by Kristina Marie Darling — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“An image flares with story, idea, and philosophy”: A Conversation with Poet & Visual Artist Jenny Grassl — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Into the underworld of what is beneath the official narrative”: A Conversation with Sam Taylor about Poetry, Hybridity, and Erasure — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
Fragments of the Vanishing Speech: Contemporary Slovak Poetry II — curated by Lucia Duero & Jesse Lee Kercheval
a nebulous shapeshifting thing: I want to stay up in the dark, as if I were the sun: A Conversation with Michael Haight and Cutter Streeby about their newest collaboration Tension: Rupture — curated by Tiffany Troy
Don’t Forget the Wind: An Interview with Rohan Chhetri about his newest poetry collection, Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful —curated by Tiffany Troy
When our greatest emergencies emerge through art: An Interview with Santiago Zabala about Why Only Art Can Save Us — curated by Tiffany Troy
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
Grant Chemidlin — “Celebrity”
Curated & introduced by Victoria Chang
Keith Leonard — “Cool” & “Abecedarian for New Parents”
Curated & introduced by Brad Aaron Modlin
Denton Loving — “Letter to My Lover as Abraham Lincoln”
Curated & introduced by Linda Michel-Cassidy
Dana Roeser — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Ismael Santillanes — “I saw her today again but this time”
Curated & introduced by Victoria Chang
Eric Tran — “Bentyl” & “Nocturne”
Curated & introduced by Brad Aaron Modlin
Editors’ Sections in Visual Art
Each artist selected by Kristina Marie Darling
Each artist selected by Mary Kathryn Jablonski
Each artist selected by David Powell
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Joanne Diaz & Jason Reblando — from La Ruta: Walter Benjamin’s Final Passage
Kasey Hund — “Flowers of Service”: A Portfolio of Collages
Nick Flynn — “Hive”: A Portfolio of Poetry & Collages
Karyna McGlynn — “The Oracle of Open Secrets”: A Portfolio of Collages
Poetry
Hussain Ahmed — “Ashes” & “Departure”
Diannely Antigua — “Diary Entry #6: Sestina”
Darius Atefat-Peckham — “Post-Loss Checklist”
Gale Batchelder — “Camber,” “Most of Us, Early or Late” & “I still think…”
Rise Kavelshar Collins — “Threnody” & “Decrescent Moon”
Jenny Grassl — A Folio of Poetry
Rena Grossman — “Signs of Danger”
Nazifa Islam — “The Feminine Experience”
Sophie Klahr & Corey Zeller — “Coming Back,” “Sacred Heart,” “I’m Fine Thanks” & “Elegy for Bunny”
Cassidy McFadzean — “Fretful” & “Chamber Music”
Matthew Moniz — “James Armistead Lafayette,” “The Re-Enactors” & “Jesus and the Whip”
Michael Montlack — “Satyr” & “Believe”
Bryce O’Tierney — “Richter scale”
Aza Pace — “FINALLY, A NEW GAZE”
Yamini Pathak — “Perimenopause: A Burning Haibun”
Daniel Ruiz — A Folio of Poetry
Bo Schwabacher — “My Omma’s Shame” & “1963”
Kate Sontag — “Clearing” & “Quarantine”
Kelly Grace Thomas — “Crocodiles Lived Among the Dinosaurs”
Prose
Tara Ballard — “‘The Wandering Shape of You’: Evidence and Recollection in Iliana Rocha’s The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez”
Kate Bolton Bonnici — “Ritual”
Jan Clausen — “In Humboldt County”
Nick Courtright — “Whitman as (Non)Transcendentalist: Criticism and the Rearview Mirror of Consensus” & “Astronomy and the Uneducated Acolyte of Science: The Archive’s Haves and Have Nots”
Katie DePasquale — “Men Dress as Unicorns, and You Won’t Believe What Happens Next”
Pune Dracker — “How low we could go”
Carol Guess — “Sleep Tight Satellite” & “The Next Story”
Richard Holeton — “June Swoon, 1994”
Karin Falcone Krieger — “Women Who Run with the Words: Meads, Farris & Chinquee Take Prose to Wild Places”
Aimee Parkison — “The Actress Invites Me” & “Strangers Come in Winter”
Abby Walthausen — A Review of Tension : Rupture by Cutter Streeby & Michael Haight
Translation
Zhang Ergun — “spending this life, in dreams I build ships” — translated by Al Lim
Katarina Frostenson — “Germination,” “Silent Directive” & “Muffled Song” — translated by Bradley Harmon
Tang Guo — “Looking at Mt. Gu from a Distance” & “Fissures”— translated by Mimi Chang
Cho Ji Hoon— “Afternoon at the Zoo”— translated by Sekyo Nam Haines
Bao Huiyi — “Kyrie” — translated by Li Huiying
Milena Markovic — “Brigitte Bardot,” “a child’s concept” & “puh puh” — translated by Maja Teref & Steven Teref
Patigul Ibrahim Mohamed — “Identity” — translated by Mimi Chang