LISA NIKOLIDAKIS: Guidance Day

EMILY FRANKLIN: Identity of an Operation

SHANE MCFARLANE: When God Shows You His Teeth

BRYAN FURUNESS: How Jaime Lost His Hand

MORGAN MACVAUGH: Held

JESAKA LONG: Nerve, 1993

MICHAEL KLEBER-DIGGS: Falling, Fallen

ELIZABETH HAWES: Rasin’ Jingles

RHIANNON CONLEY: What Is This In My Mouth?

NORMAN BELANGER: Just Another Guy

MORGAN TALTY: A Thin Smoke Rises

DÉSIRÉE ZAMORANO: 1969

JIMMY KINDREE: April Mornings

MAGGIE YEOMANS: Doomsday

MEGAN SAVAGE: White Lies

KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY: From the Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, & Anxieties

TIM HORVATH: Sul Ponticello, Baião, & Martelé

TIFFANY MIDGE: Indigenous Census Statistics, How to Be Funny Tips, & The Girl with the Snake Tattoo

DARA YEN ELERATH: Slow Apocalypse

JOAN NAVIYUK KANE: on never looking upward in battle, Fieldwork, Naŋitkia / he beat her

JENNIFER ELISE FOERSTER: From “The Maybe Bird”

ELEE KRALJII GARDINER: Also Flesh

CEDAR SIGO: Solarium

ROCHELLE GERMOND: Seasonal Affective Disorder

ALLISON DEFREESE: Delight

LINDA ANN STRANG: The Sky of Women: China

FELICIA ZAMORA: Dear Coyote & Dear Coyote

IVAN HOBSON: Weight

M JAIME ZUCKERMAN: All the Things I’m Doing Because I’m Sad & Stories We Tell Each Other in the Dark

DAVID ANTONIO MOODY: Faena & Grandfather

RUSSELL BRAKEFIELD: Memory & After Dinner, David Makes a List of Dead Friends

TAYLOR SUPPLEE: Frog Slow to Boil

AUDREY HALL: Tadpoles & Displacement

J. DAVID: suicide attempt

EMILY PAIGE WILSON: Appropriate Jewels for a Nursery & Amplified Pain

ANDREW VOGEL: dance

NYLAH LYMAN: Connected

MIA HERMAN: Barren

JUDY KABER: Fallout

OKSANA MAKSYMCHUK: Essential Parenting

NATALIE TAYLOR: A narrow path quieting & Acceptance: a new stage of grief

SNEHA SUBRAMANIAN KANTA: ghost-lineage with earthen pitcher

AMY KATZEL: Ancestral Memory & Sarah Speaks

JESSICA DIONNE: Mom’s Cocktail Dress Dancing on the Clothesline

MATHEW WEITMAN: Lake-Effect

LINDSAY STEWART: Aegis

RONDA PISZK BROATCH: Exhibition with Sliced Fingers, Dirty Souls & Gravitation Cannot Be Held Responsible for People Falling in Love

DANA SALVADOR: Birth Control

JOSÉ ASUNCIÓN SILVA: Bitter Drops
Poems translated from Spanish by O NEACE

DARIO PAPA: The American Woman
Essay excerpt translated from Italian by NATALIA NEBEL

HÉLÈNE SANGUINETTI: Here’s the SONG
Poetry excerpt translated from French by ANN CEFOLA

YUSIF IDRIS: The Smoking Gun
Short Story translated from Arabic by ADEL OSTA-DADAN

IMMANUEL MIFSUD: Poems
translated from Maltese by RUTH WARD

ELENA GURO: Poems
translated from Russian by SHELBY WARDLAW