Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“Chalk Song: A Conversation with Gale Batchelder, Susan Berger-Jones, & Judson Evans about Collaborative Poetry & the Archive” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Pipette: A Conversation with Kim Chinquee” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“2am with Keats: A Conversation with Poet & Publisher Eileen Cleary” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“A Northern Spring: A Conversation with Matt Mauch & A Portfolio of Poetry” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Nightfall Marginalia: A Conversation with Sarah Maclay & a Portfolio of Poetry” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Swansdown: A Conversation with Donald Platt & a Portfolio of Poetry” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Interstellar Theme Park: A Conversation with Jack Skelley” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“When Ilium Burns: A Conversation with Tiffany Troy” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“The Daughter of Man: A Conversation with L.J. Sysko and a Portfolio of Poetry” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“This final, glowing image: A Conversation with Kristen Renee Miller” — curated by Naoko Fujimoto
“A way of working that leads to discovery: A Conversation with Karen Donovan” — curated by Catherine Imbriglio
“Creative entanglement: A conversation with Nancy Kuhl about her new poetry collection On Hysteria” — curated by Karla Kelsey
“Sisters I believe and still believe: A Conversation with Abigail Chabitnoy” — curated by Lisa Olstein
“In the Food Lion Parking Lot One Night: A Conversation with Erika Meitner” — curated by Lisa Olstein
“In Ancient Rome or on Saturn: A Conversation with Lynn Melnick” — curated by Lisa Olstein
“More Broad, More Wild: An Interview with Christopher Nelson” — conducted by Zach Savich
“What if the day is beautiful regardless: A Conversation with Virginia Konchan about Bel Canto” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“I yearn to keep dancing in his breath: A Conversation with Aldo Amparán about Brother Sleep“ — curated by Tiffany Troy
“to return to dying between two cupped hands: A Conversation with James Fujinami Moore about indecent hours” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“Can I tell you that sometimes I utter the word justice and mean revenge?: A Conversation with J. Estanislao Lopez about We Borrowed Gentleness” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“Another Me Exists in a Cabin by the Lake: A Conversation with Andrew Grace about Sancta (with Emma O’Leary)” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“Sing: No More: A Conversation with Cyrus Cassells about The World That the Shooter Left Us” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“I’m me—a budding everything: A Conversation with Latif Ba about The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“I bask, a fugitive from the confines of my own words: A Conversation with Margo Jefferson about Constructing a Nervous System” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“like the building that reflects his death in every window: A Conversation with Iliana Rocha about The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“She takes the open fifths into the choir of her heart: A Conversation with Marianne Worthington about The Girl Singer” — curated by Tiffany Troy
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
Kelly Canaday — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Bernard Gershenson — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Paula Gocker — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Isabel Neal — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Kakyung Baek — “The Hypercube Records” & “Slaughterhouse Vigil”— translated from the Korean by Archana Madhavan
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Nicholas Regiacorte — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Editor’s Selections in Visual Art
Each artist chosen by Mary Kathryn Jablonski.
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Kathryn Cowles —from Notes on the Imminent Art Show
Cressida Blake Roe & Jemma Leigh Roe — “The Accidental Body”
Poetry
Rose Auslander — “Dear Wednesday” & “Butterflies”
Sarah Brockhaus — “Becoming Flightless” & “Eve to Adam at Calvary”
William Brown — A Portfolio of Poetry
Annah Browning — “A Portfolio of Poetry”
Stephanie Choi — “A Tattoo for My Mother,” “Feeding,” and “Leng Neoi Picks a Bouquet for Leng Jei at the Soccer Game”
Abigail Cloud — A Portfolio of Poetry
Flower Conroy — A Portfolio of Poetry
Kristyn Garza — A Portfolio of Poetry
Rae Gourirand — “Inscription,” “Iridaceae” & “You”
Stella Hayes — “Responsible Life Form”
Jared Hayley — “[You have the right to remain silent]” & “[You do you says the sneaker seller]”
Christopher Hewitt — “Exfoliation” & “Cottonwood”
Caroline Jennings — “The Chambered Nautilus: Revamped”
Molly Sutton Kiefer — A Portfolio of Poetry
David Kirby — A Portfolio of Poetry
Christine Kwon — A Portfolio of Poetry
Anat Levin — A Portfolio of Poetry
Anthony Thomas Lombardi — “fragments from Amy Winehouse’s stepwork journal”
Leigh Lucas — “A Portfolio of Poetry”
Iris McCloughan — A Portfolio of Poetry
Matthew Moore — “[Horizon, a Yellow Band Eats],” “A Ballad of the Sonderkommando” & “Song”
Christopher Brean Murray — “Arbor Day” & “The Map”
Donald Platt – A Portfolio of Poetry
Meg Stout — “Marry a Man Who” & “Yard Sale”
Barbara Tomash — “Of Anima,” “Of Thirst,” “Of Tongues”
Margaret Yapp — “Gust/Posit” & “Hunker/Glom”
Prose
Chris J. Bahnsen — “Contingency Plan”
William Black — “ANTHRACITE: FRAGMENTS TOWARD A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST”
Marte Carlock — “The Little Gray Bird”
Eileen Kelly — “The Crown Jewels”
Leonard Kress — “T. S. Eliot’s Lab Partner”
A Celebration of Literary Criticism
Miriam Calleja on Sean Singer’s Today in the Taxi
Alexis David on Eileen Cleary’s 2AM with Keats
Karin Falcone on Mary Leader’s The Distaff Side &Sarah Heady’s Comfort
Karin Falcone on Chike Nzerue’s Architecture of Dust
Jenny Grassl on Katy Didden’s Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland
Yasmine Guiga on Sean McFall’s Garden Theology
Yasmine Guiga on Meredith Stricker’s Rewild
Margaret Kean on Brandon Rushton’s The Air in the Air Behind It
Cheryl Passanisi on Donald Platt’s Swansdown
Gail Siegel on Kim Chinquee’s Pipette
Ben Tripp on Joshua Edwards’ The Double Lamp of Solitude
Abigail Ardelle Zammit on K.D. Harryman’s Girl’s Book of Knots
Literature in Translation
J. Mae Barizo and Jesper Andreasson — Ö — translated by J. Mae Barizo and Jesper Andreasson
Amichai Chasson & Vivian Eden — A Dialogue Between Two Poets
Helene Dorion — from Mes forêts — translated by Susanna Lang
Anna Glazova — from Facial Calculation — translated by Alex Niemi
Kim Hyesoon — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated by Cindy Juyoung Ok
Reina María Rodríguez – A Portfolio of Poetry — translated by Kristin Dykstra
Miri Ben Simhon — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated by Lisa Katz
Alvaro Fausto Taruma — “First Note” — translated by Grant Schultzman