“The Eye of the Beholder.” Cover artwork courtesy of Irene Theotokatou.
Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“Daisy Atterbury and Keetje Kuipers on Love, Language and Country Music for Queers” —Curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Between Text and Image: Literature & Art as Ethical Reckoning, A Conversation with Thomas Farber” —Curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Cups of Language: A Conversation with Poet, Novelist & Anthologist Rosemary Herbert” —Curated by Jeffrey Levine
“A Charged In-Between: Conversations with Elizabeth Metzger on Doubleness, Embodiment, Pre-Language and Motherhood” —Curated by Jeffrey Levine
“When Touch Isn’t Enough: Art, Longing, and the Language That Almost Holds Us, A Conversation with Andy Chen” —Curated by Darius Phelps
“When the Container Burns: Christian Yeo Xuan on Form, Tenderness, and the Truth Beneath Language” —Curated by Darius Phelps
“What If You Come Back from the Dead?: Rosebud Ben-Oni on Speculative Realism, Love, and the Refusal of Indifference” —Curated by Darius Phelps
“The Shape of Return: An Intimate Conversation with Andrew Chi Keong Yim” —Curated by Darius Phelps
“Of Consciousness, Distance, and Poetic Becoming: An Interview with Derek Chan” —Curated by Darius Phelps
“Light Carried Forward: A Conversation with Mahogany L. Browne” —Curated by Darius Phelps
“Justice as Love in Action: An Introduction to the World of Phil SaintDenisSanchez” —Curated by Darius Phelps
“How Can the Holy Be Its Own?: An Interview with Trace DePass on BOOTless, Lineage, and the Shape of Breath” —Curated by Darius Phelps
“Excavating Universes: A Conversation with Joshua Nguyen on poetry, practice, and pedagogy” —Curated by Darius Phelps
“Liberation in the Wilderness: An Interview with Jeddie Sophronius” —Curated by Darius Phelps
“Let yourself be unfinished: A Conversation with Darius Phelps about My God’s Been Silent” —Curated by Tiffany Troy
“The heart still choosing to say beauty: A Conversation with Joseph Fasano about The Teacher“ —Curated by Tiffany Troy
“and bright sweet strawberries grow among corpses spilling a sweet smell: A Conversation with Translator Olena Jennings about Translating Girl with a Bullet by Anna Mailhon” —Curated by Tiffany Troy
“And we begin again: A Conversation with Mia Ayumi Malhotra about Mothersalt“ —Curated by Tiffany Troy
“Power/ Silence/ Grief/ Coming to Terms:A Conversation with Mary Ann Samyn about The Return of Cavalry“ —Curated by Tiffany Troy
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
Anthony Caleshu — A Folio of Poetry
Curated by Kristina Marie Darling
Dorothy Chan — “I Am Working Through My Sexual Trauma”
Curated by Darius Phelps
Andy Chen — “Self Portrait as Treatise on Beauty,”&“The End”
Curated by Darius Phelps
Jared Green — “Echolalia”
Curated by Kristina Marie Darling
Simona Chitescu Weik — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated by Kristina Marie Darling
Andrew Chi Keong Yim — A Folio of Poetry
Curated by Darius Phelps
Editors’ Selections in Visual Art
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Jenny Grassl — from THE THUNDER, PERFECT MIND: A CONJURING
Sarah Heady — from THE HUDSON LINES
Amalia Melis — from HEALING THE TEAR
Cindy Rucker Trost — “The Ropes and Wind Have Eyes, But the Bells Tell the Story”
Within a Held Breath: A Quartet of Poems with Lyric Responses
Curated & introduced by Jeffrey Levine
“A Lesson in Conducting” by Rosemary Herbert
With a Lyric Response by Jeffrey Levine
“(Untitled)” by Carrie Olivia Adams
With a Lyric Response by Jeffrey Levine
“Noah’s Weather Report” by Sam Magavern
With a Lyric Response by Jeffrey Levine
“Field Notes: It’s 3 a.m.” by Dawn McGuire
With a Lyric Response by Jeffrey Levine
Poetry
Carrie Olivia Adams — A Folio of Poetry
Nicole Allensworth — A Folio of Poetry
Emma Aylor — “The Crush” & “Aubade for Loose Want”
Mary Jo Bang — A Folio of Poetry
Talia Bloch — A Folio of Poetry
Emma Bolden — A Folio of Poetry
Peter Campion — A Folio of Poetry
Tina Cane — from DEAR DIANE: LETTERS TO A REVOLUTIONARY
Denise Duhamel — “Sister Poem” & “A Prose Villanelle”
K.A. Vallere — “Burning Haibun”
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett — A Folio of Poetry
Charity Gingerich — A Folio of Poetry
Alison Granucci — “Aubade at First Frost” & “Winter Solstice”
Barbara Krasner — A Folio of Poetry
Brice Maiurro — “aubade; 4:16pm”
Kathleen McGookey — A Folio of Prose Poetry
Matt W. Miller — A Portfolio of Poetry
Tiana Nobile 문영신 — “Dear Father” & “Sources that Don’t Exist”
Nynke Passi — A Portfolio of Poetry
Bill Rector — A Folio of Prose Poetry
Donald Revell — A Folio of Poetry
Matthew Rohrer — A Folio of Poetry
Nick Stanovick — “Tamoxifen 20 mg”
J.C. Talamantez — “Summer of Roaches” & “Poetry for the Void”
Prose
Karen An-hwei Lee — “The Beauty of Squill”
Allison Blevins — “Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis”
Jeffrey Levine — “Toward a Poetics of Radiant Impermanence: On Lise Goett’s “After a Dark Tunnel, Uplift, Lift”
Nicholas Skaldetvind — “I Don’t See How I Could’ve Done All the Work I Have Done Without Having Lived That Way: Alice Notley’s Archive”
“Ripples in the Reservoir”: A Yale Writers Workshop Showcase
Jotham Burello — “Frozen Flowers”
Clea Rivera — “The Secret Society of Dolls”
Sonal Singh — “Corpus Delicti”
A Celebration of Literary Criticism
“Vulnerability as Superpower: A Review of R.A. Villanueva’s A Holy Dread” by Darius Phelps
“Brittany Rogers’ Good Dress is my Juke Joint and Altar Call” by reviewed by Ajanaé Dawkins
Mark Bender on Luo Qingchun’s Dangdai Yizu Hanyu shige yanjiu
Allison Creighton on Matthew Gellman’s Night Logic
Cristina Deptula on Terrance Dwyer’s The Badge Between Us
“What Now Feels Like”: A Review of John James’s Extinction Song by Kirby Ewald
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson on the Poetry of Julia Thacker
Emma Keaney on Cate Peebles’s The Haunting
Kirsten McAteer on Kathleen Flenniken’s Dressing in the Dark
Charles Rammelkamp on the Poetry & Fiction of Barbara Krasner
Charles Rammelkamp on John Reed’s Year of Valentines