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Silvia Bonilla
Art Institute
Strong Gold
Brian Brodeur
Phantasmagoria
Playing Dead
Woman Waking Early in Late Fall
Jehanne Dubrow
Foreign Affairs
My Husband’s Father
Open Spaces
Malcolm Friend
Diasporican Interview from the Moon
Love Poem, Prefaced with an Ode to Tostones
T.R. Hummer
Notes in the Margin
Persistent Illusions
A Trade
Michael Lavers
Adonais
Apollo Considers the Humans
Song for a Severed Head
Larry Levis
Elegy for Poe with the Music of a Carnival Inside It
Sandra Marchetti
Against Seven-Inning Doubleheaders and Starting Runners on Second Base
in Extra Innings in Major League Baseball
Edward Mayes
On Lines from Czesław Miłosz’s “Meaning”
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Carcass Balance
Furs
Swamp Lullaby in a Dry Year
Dustin Pearson
Platonic Love
Time Spent
Catherine Pierce
“The Doomsday Clock” Sounds Like the Title of a B-Movie
Some Things Are Not Hypothetical
The Whywolf
Georgina Ramírez
translated from Spanish by David M. Brunson
Foreigner
Hidden Damage
A Poem Called Country
Aleš Šteger
translated from Slovene by Brian Henry
Human
Alexandra Teague
Field Blocks
Lake Chatcolet
Smithsonian
Corey Van Landingham
The Marriage Plot
Devon Walker-Figueroa
from Philomath 
The Blood’s Unwritable Psalm
Gallowed Be
Of Gut & Gold
Philomath
New Poems
Horticulture or Eternity
The Hunted
Paradise Lust
C. Dale Young
The Checklist
Self-Portrait Using a Single Mirror
Self-Portrait Without a Mirror