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In rows, a variety of black-and-white portrait photographs where faces are covered by two or three squares of colorful and patterned textiles, all set on a blue background

Fiction

Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

Three Stories

Luc Le

The Plagiarist

Nonfiction

Brooke Middlebrook

Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Poetry

Amber Adams

IS IT MY JOB THEN TO MAKE THIS BEAUTIFUL?

YUKI-ONNA 雪女

Asa Drake

Recipe for Bilo-Bilo

Kate Sweeney

Strawberry Season

Kenedee Westberry (translator)

New Moon

Malcolm Dean Mitchell

A Beach, the Beach

Sara Potocsny

CAFETERIA ART

nicole v basta

enter your home as though you are a stranger

Art

Kat Thompson

Activating the Archive

Gallery

Book Reviews, Craft Essays, and Interviews

Abbie Kiefer

Review: Bobby Elliott’s The Same Man 

David Wojahn

Review: John Berryman’s Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs

Jason Gordy Walker

Review: Ian Hall’s Creekwater Mansions

Jesse Lacy

Review: The Fluid Body of Fiction: FAT SWIM by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Lena Moses-Schmitt

Lisa Russ Spaar

Interview With Lisa Russ Spaar

Matt Schroeder

A Conversation with Megan Pinto

Megan McDermott

Review: Abstract Expressionists: The Women

Sam Schieren

Interview with Grace Spulak

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