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Alyse Bensel
Ivy in Every Parallel Universe
Alli Cruz
Free Time
We Have To
Brian Culhane
Imperium: A Bedtime Story
The Oxford English Dictionary
Raphael Dagold
Solo in Guadalajara: A Lament
Claudia Emerson
Sewing Bird
Sewing Bird [transcription, 2007 manuscript]
Sewing Bird [facsimile, 2007 manuscript]
Robert Gibb
Art School Studies
Cinema Club, Kutztown State College, 1971
Nicholas Cardell Gore
Bring Back the Dead
Nigredo (The Precondition for Circumstance)
Corrado Govoni
translated from Italian by Paula Bohince
Cicada
Moon and Dogs
The Rain in February
Return to My Country
Carolyn Guinzio
Hone
Matter
Plank
Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh
translated from Persian by Negar Emrani
The Heart of Daggers
Nadia
Julia B. Levine
Cache Creek Bridge at Flood Stage
Ordinary Psalm in the Days of Awe
Ordinary Psalm Troubled by Truth and Lies
Irène P. Mathieu
fourteenth attempt at going home
the junkyard galaxy knocks
late spring
Romie Hernández Morgan
And Should We Thank God
A Fairy Tale
Sarah Rose Nordgren
Feathers
On Stillness
Leona Sevick
Guarding George Wallace
Dave Smith
Audubon’s Peewees
A Bargain for a Boat
Breakable Jesus
Developments
Reading Obituaries
Sofia Starnes
Crib Loss
Genesis
Jessica Tanck
Courtesy and Horror
Damned If
Amie Whittemore
Coral Calls Out Anthropocentric Despair
Ghost Pastoral