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Painting of an imagined version of Trubetskoy Palace's Dining Room in 1914, including a long, set table with one empty chair next to it and a wall of framed paintings

Fiction

Ena Selimović (translator)

Zlatan Nezirović

FATHER

Nonfiction

Brenna Womer

Only

Kasumi Parker

Look and See

Poetry

AJ White

Follower

I Have Sent the Future on Ahead to Be Dealt With

Inventory

Not-Conversation with My Former Self

Brian Komei Dempster

Honey

Wood

Cameron McGill

AFTER YVES TAKES ME HOME FROM THE DOCTOR, I LIE IN THE DARK 

Chelsea B. DesAutels

Attunement

Corey Zeller

A Good Way to Fall in Love is to Turn Off the Headlights and Drive Very Fast Down Dark Roads

Debmalya Bandyopadhyay

Prayer

Dennis Hinrichsen

Dementia Lyric with Miles Davis and a Gamelan

Ian Cappelli

Three Polystichs

Julia Levine

Laws of War

Sébastian Luc Butler

ORIGIN

Malcolm Greenlee Farley (translator)

Robert Marteau

“I recall that things were pretty much”

“The willow herb at the wood’s edge clothes itself”

Peter Filkins

Willy

Rasaq Malik Gbolahan

Elegy

Weijia Pan

A Poet’s Guide to Espionage

Fable

Monologue on an Anonymous Alley, 1998

Poética Histórica: Or, How to Leave My Country a Voicemail

Spring View

Art

Gretchen Scherer

Gallery

The Space Says Yes To Me

Book Reviews, Craft Essays, and Interviews

AJ White

It is the Echo: Poetic Spiritualism in Charles Wright’s Appalachian Book of the Dead & in Late Twentieth & Early Twenty-First Century Poetry

Hana Rehman

Review: Anne de Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over

Matt Schroeder

Review: Weijia Pan’s Motherlands

Paul Lomio

Review: Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine

Rasaq Malik Gbolahan

Interview with Kwame Dawes 

Flight v24n1 contributors

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