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Larry Levis
Fish
Ghost Confederacy
Winter Stars
Kaveh Akbar
poems from Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Soot
Portrait of The Alcoholic with Home Invader and
Housefly
Thirstiness is Not Equal Division
new poems
Against Memory
What I Am Looking for Is What Is Looking21st Annual Levis Reading Prize
a reading by prize winner Kaveh Akbar
T.R. Hummer
Body Swayed to Music: Levine among the Musicians 
Benjamin Boone & Philip Levine
The Poetry of Jazz 
Sam Pereira
Approaching Afterlife
The Flavors of Despair
Ann Townsend
Dear Delinquent
O Felon Heart
The Seal
Lisa Russ Spaar
Geisha Madrigal
Mate Madrigal
Mistress Madrigal
St-Germaine Madrigal
Jeanne Larsen
Polyphemus, Shy & Likely on the Spectrum, Loves
Trans-Trans-Human Teiresias Urges—Having
Kate Daniels
Breast Cancer
End of the Marriage
Rethinking the Burning of Books
Larry I. Palmer
Call Me by My Name
Wendy Mitman Clarke
Civil Twilight
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Eight poems from Kyrie
A Reading from Kyrie
Setting Truth to Music
Brian Bouldrey
One Singer to MournAry Justman
from Réflexions PoétiquesW.E. Anthony
Gerzat
His First Case1918 Time Capsule
A Masked Parade 1918
Jordan Durham
RoadsideAmerica.com Suggests Visiting the Ultraviolet Apocalypse
Kate Gaskin
Delta, Echo, Alpha, Romeo
Operations Suite
Poem in Which My Husband Deploys and Our Baby and I Move Back in with My Parents
Vedran Husić
Mobilization, 1914
Lauren Michele Jackson
Tara’s Suit
Henry Taylor
Remembering George Garrett
Richard Carlyon
selected work from Reynolds Gallery
A Network of Possibilities
by Ashley KistlerCurating the Grand Hotel
by Paul RyanDick Carlyon
by Chris Burnside
A Reading by Mark Doty & Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
Kristina Faust
The Bus of Mrs. M.
Fressenstille
A Record of Us
Brandon Amico
Nothing But
Planet Nine
Brandon Courtney
Flophouse
Testimony
Francis Santana
Ann Arbor
How to Jump Fences
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Coming Home
Syncretism
Brian Henry
Translation: An Essay
Rob Shapiro
Major Arcana: How My Father Got to Reno
Jon Pineda
from Let’s No One Get Hurt
Chelsea Gillenwater
Review | Let’s No One Get Hurt by Jon Pineda
Jacqueline Goldfinger
Playwright’s Notes
Director’s Commentary
The Arsonists
Caitlin Fitzpatrick
Reincarnation at the Wallingford Animal Shelter
Taneum Bambrick
Angela
Grave by the Lake
Road Salvage
Wynne Hungerford
Distress Cries of a Cottontail Rabbit
Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize Reading
Molly McCully Brown & Susannah Nevison
Post-Op Letters in the Field Between Us
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
A. Real. Uncle. TomTom.
Andy Fogle
Nine Martinsville Screens
Justin Gardiner
Rice Terraces, Northern Luzon
Molly Spencer
Elegy
Poem that Begins on a Staircase
Brynne Rebele-Henry
As a girl I believed in
Niente, Niente, Niente
Natalie Mesnard
MU Puzzle
Steel-Jaw
Matthew Baker
The Cult of Volta Temple
Sara Eliza Johnson
Asteroseismology
Lazarus
Wormhole
Melinda M. White
Between Floors: Love and Other Blood-Related Diseases
Chris Haven
Carry On
We are at a feast which doesn’t love us
Emily Block
Review | Pandora’s Garden: Kudzu, Cockroaches, and Other Misfits of Ecology
by Clinton Crockett Peters
Gabe Boudali
Review | Nevada Days by Bernardo Atxaga
Katherine Mooney Brooks
Review | Circadian by Chelsey Clammer
Victoria C. Flanagan
Review | Paraíso by Jacob Shores-Argüello
Henry Hart
Review | The Consequence of Moonlight by Sofia Starnes
A Reading by Ru Freeman & LeAnne Howe
