Cover artwork courtesy of Regan Good.
Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“Apparitions: A Conversation with Sybil Baker” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Joan Tangle: A Conversation with Jenny Drai” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Penultimates: A Conversation with Thomas Farber” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Magicholia: A Conversation with Jenny Grassl” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“How to Live: A Conversation with Kelle Groom”— curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“The Visit: A Conversation with Ana T. Kralj” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“The Trauma Mantras: A Conversation with Adrie Kusserow” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Shadow Dance: A Conversation with Martin Ott” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Radical Brevity: A Conversation with Patrick Donnelly About Poetry & Translation” — curated by Naoko Fujimoto
“‘A Topography of Salvation’: John Davis’ The Places That Hold” — by Virginia Konchan
“I Fell Into an Elegiac Mood: A Conversation with Jane Miller” — curated by Lisa Olstein
“How Art Engages How it Attends: A Conversation with Dean Rader” — curated by Lisa Olstein
“Charm Offensive: A Conversation with Ross White” — curated by Esteban Rodriguez
“Otherlight: A Conversation with Jill Mceldowney” — curated by Esteban Rodriguez
“everyday people always echo myth: A Conversation with Katie Hartsock with a Portfolio of Poetry” — curated by Megan Levad
“such a feminine book: A Conversation with Jade Lascelles” — curated by Megan Levad
“Do you mind, for a second, if we turn the lights out?: A Conversation with Kim Chinquee about Pipette” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“Edgar is my soulmate: A Conversation with Nikki Ketteringham about I Named the Dragon for You“ – curated by Tiffany Troy
“The bees are flying: Conversation with co-editor Virginia Konchan about Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (edited by Sarah Giragosian and Virginia Konchan)” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“I wished I would have kissed the sky where it held the full moon up like a mirror: A Conversation with Molly Zhu about Asian American Translations” – curated by Tiffany Troy
“We choose to light no candles: A Conversation with Juan Pablo Mobili about Contraband” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“I am (still) here: A Conversation with Alicia Mountain about Four in Hand” – curated by Tiffany Troy
‘“Sometimes when I look at the sky: A Conversation with Sean Thomas Dougherty about Death Prefers the Minor Keys” – curated by Tiffany Troy
“When language takes over it is the most incredible relief: A Conversation with Emily Simon about In Many Ways” – curated by Tiffany Troy
“The miles, like bodies, fall between us: A Conversation with Anna V. Q. Ross about Flutter, Kick“– curated by Tiffany Troy
“Are You Listening to the Cloud in the Tin Cup: A Conversation with Meghan Maguire Dahn about Domain” — curated by Tiffany Troy
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
Luis Ignacio Betancourt — from Ojo de la Sombra — translated by Arturo Desimone
Curated & introduced by Henk Rossouw
Ryan Cook — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
John Davis — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Virginia Konchan
Rose DeMaris — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Danielle Cadena Deulen — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by dawn lonsinger
Anastasia K. Gates — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Regan Good — “Paintings for Saskia Hamilton”
Curated & introduced by Laura Cronk
Carolyn Hembree — from For Today
Curated & introduced by Henk Rossouw
Zoe Contros Kearl — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Jefferson Navicky — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Virginia Konchan
Hannah Page — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
John Reed – A Portfolio of Sonnets
Curated & introduced by Laura Cronk
Danté Stewart — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Laura Cronk
Editor’s Selections in Visual Art
Each artist chosen & introduced by Mary Kathryn Jablonski.
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Anthony Hawley — “X-Agent Destroy Monster Regimes”
Nancy Reisman & Jonathan Rattner — “Postcards from the Vanishing Point”
Poetry
Colleen Abel — “We are all bad mothers here” & “In Praise of Jenny Marx”
Talvikki Ansel — A Portfolio of Poetry
Bruce Bond & Dan Beachy-Quick — A Portfolio of Collaborative Poetry
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura — “Lexical Meditation in Two Languages”
Arlene DeMaris — “Anger” & “The Book of Questions”
Lawrence Di Stefano — “A Single Dream of Spring”
Fay Dillof — A Portfolio of Poetry
Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton — from HUMAN FIELDS
Sarah Dunphy-Lelii — “In German”
Makayla Gay — “Horse Facts” & Spaghetti Western”
Jenny Grassl — 3 Magicholia poems, “A Landfill Dress Mourns,” “Hospital Year Voice,” & “Frail House of Booming”
Siobhan Hart — “Self Portrait as Amber”
Katherine Hollander — “Ahisma” & “Comfort and Mercy”
Abbie Kiefer — “Self-Portrait as the Safe Deposit Vault in the Vacant First Trust”
Andrew Edmund Kane — “desire lines”
Leslie McIntosh — “When does the kosanba rest?” & “why is a bird a bird and I’m not?”
Brittany Mishra — “Ellipsis” & “Neurotoxin”
Stelios Mormoris — “Sigh,” “New Love,” & “Sky Cathedral”
Matthew Nienow — “Even If the Past Is Not a Place You Can Visit” & “Begin Again”
Benjamin Niespodziany — “Lassoing the Family: A Triptych”
Cate Peebles — A Portfolio of Poetry
Wes Rothman — “Blue Haze” & “Running After Wild”
Jo Wallace — A Portfolio of Poetry
Prose
Erika Gallion — “Dusk and Summer on The Nimi”
Makayla Gay — “10-15 Years; 15-20 Eggs”
Teo Rivera-Dundas & Erik Abrahams — “Unable to Stop Losing the Creature”
Oonagh Stransky — “A Full Stop on Her Period: How the Translation of Lucarelli’s Almost Blue was Modified in the UK”
Literature in Translation
Yang Biwei — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated by Liang Yujing
Zhang Dinghao — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated by Jiaoyang Li
Ayana Erdal — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated by Lisa Katz
Amalialú Posso Figueroa — “Attraction, Intimacy, Infirmity: A Portfolio of Poetry” — translated by Jeffrey Diteman
Marzia Grillo — “Recognize Me?” — translated by Lourdes Contreras & Julia Pelosi-Thorpe
Dinçer Güçyeter — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated by Caroline Wilcox Reul
Bai Hua — A Portfolio of Poetry — translated by Weija Pan
Lamia Makaddam – A Portfolio of Poetry — translated by Lily Shehady
Adriana Riva — An Excerpt from Salt: “How Remote Is the Past” — translated by Denise Kripper
Sarai Shavit — “Mother No Longer Answers: A Portfolio of Poetry” — translated by Joanna Chen
Jana Putrle Srdić — from Uncharted — translated by Sue Vickerman
A Celebration of Literary Criticism
Shannon Vare Christine on Tennison S. Black’s Survival Strategies
Shannon Vare Christine on L.J. Sysko’s The Daughter of Man
Robert Dunsdon on Hayden Bergman’s Ad Hoc
Sandra Fees on Kate Partridge’s Thine
Veronica Golos on Jennifer Franklin’s If Some God Shakes Your House
Celeste Lipkes on Jane Huffman’s Public Abstract
Sara Mae on Kristine Langley Mahler’s A Calendar is a Snakeskin
Zainab Omaki on Thomas Farber’s Penultimates
Zainab Omaki on Carol Mitchell’s What Start Bad A Mornin’
Amy Penne on Xu Xi’s Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations
Katie Richards on Matthew Gellman’s Night Logic
Aline Soules on Martin Ott’s Shadow Dance
Aline Soules on Jerome Gagnon’s Refuge for Cranes
Avia Tadmor on Gabrielle Bates’ Judas Goat
Julie Marie Wade on Joy Ladin’s Shekhinah Speaks