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Kaveh Akbar
from Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Portrait of the Alcoholic with Home Invader and Housefly 
Soot
Thirstiness is Not Equal Division
new poems
Against Memory
What I Am Looking for Is What Is Looking
Brandon Amico
Nothing But
Planet Nine
Taneum Bambrick
Angela
Grave by the Lake
Road Salvage
Molly McCully Brown & Susannah Nevison
Post-Op Letters in the Field Between Us
Wendy Mitman Clarke
Civil Twilight
Brandon Courtney
Flophouse
Testimony
Kate Daniels
Breast Cancer
End of the Marriage
Rethinking the Burning of Books
Jordan Durham
RoadsideAmerica.com Suggests Visiting the
Ultraviolet Apocalypse
Kristina Faust
The Bus of Mrs. M.
Fressenstille
A Record of Us
Andy Fogle
Nine Martinsville Screens
Justin Gardiner
Rice Terraces, Northern Luzon
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
Chris Haven
Carry On
We are at a feast which doesn’t love
us
Vedran
Husić
Mobilization, 1914
Lauren Michele Jackson
Tara’s Suit
Sara Eliza Johnson
Asteroseismology
Lazarus
Wormhole
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe
Kingsley
A. Real. Uncle. TomTom.
Jeanne Larsen
Polyphemus, Shy & Likely on the Spectrum, Loves
Trans-Trans-Human Teiresias Urges—Having
Larry Levis
Fish
Ghost Confederacy
Winter Stars
Natalie Mesnard
MU Puzzle
Steel-Jaw
Susannah Nevison & Molly McCully Brown
Post-Op Letters in the Field Between Us
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Coming Home
Syncretism
Sam Pereira
Approaching Afterlife
The Flavors of Despair
Brynne Rebele-Henry
As a girl I believed in
Niente, Niente, Niente
Francis Santana
Ann Arbor
How to Jump Fences
Rob Shapiro
Major Arcana: How My Father Got to Reno
Lisa Russ Spaar
Geisha Madrigal
Mate Madrigal
Mistress Madrigal
St-Germain Madrigal
Molly Spencer
Elegy
Poem that Begins on a Staircase
Ann Townsend
Dear Delinquent
O Felon Heart
The Seal
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Eight poems from Kyrie
