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Messiahs, Chapter One
Marc Anthony Richardson
prose
Issue 25
Flesh of My Flesh
Russell Nichols
poem
Issue 25
I Gave It My All, Afterlife, Forever Haunted, X
Zuzanna Kwiecień
poem
Issue 25
Consacré à l’art, Oltre il domani – Beyond Tomorrow, Verso la luce
Delta N.A.
prose
Issue 25
Dead Dreams
Sandeep Kumar Mishra
prose
Issue 25
Flashpoint
Merethe Walther
prose
Issue 25
Any Moonwalker Can Tell You
Joel Peckham
poem
Issue 25
Darling, Don’t Change
Epiphany Ferrell
prose
Issue 25
Within
Marshall J. Moore
prose
Issue 25
Portrait of Soliloquy in the Mouth of Grief
Joshua Effiong
poem
Issue 25
Down Time
Derek Des Anges
prose
Issue 25
Untitled Sculptures
Soroush Payandeh
poem
Issue 25
The House on the Cliff
Nancy Schumann
prose
Issue 25
Halo has a sepia embrace
Roseline Mgbodichinma
poem
Issue 25
The Taxidermist
Sylke Lesinski
prose
Issue 25
Remain Calm
JD Kloosterman
prose
Issue 25
Lucid Nightmare
Kristin Fouquet
prose
Issue 25
The Outcast
Chanice Cruz
poem
Issue 25
Dinner
Elise Kelly
prose
Issue 25
Ushi no toki mairi
Betsy Aoki
poem
Issue 25
Meet Death Out There
Ryan James
prose
Issue 25
A Letter, Unfolding
H. Pueyo
prose
Issue 25
Persephone, Episode Two
Dyan McBride & Daniel Smith-Rowsey
prose
Issue 25
Rise
Tiffany Lindfield
prose
Issue 25
Rendezvous
Lora Berg
poem
Issue 25
A Grim Conversation
Matt Mueller
prose
Issue 25
Dream Therapy
Beret Olsen
prose
Issue 25
Marc Anthony Richardson
Tri-an Cao
interview
Occident or Accident?
Philip Staley
prose
Issue 24
The Highway
Anointing Obuh
prose
Issue 24
Women of the Sun
Esther Aminata Kamara
prose
Issue 24
Leaders of the Free World
Dalia A. Elmanzalawy
prose
Issue 24
Journey/Home
Tyler Odeneal
prose
Issue 24
We’re Going to Need a Bigger Pot
Tara Campbell
prose
Issue 24
Fresh Cut
James Stewart III
prose
Issue 24
we too can write of clouds
Lena Shepherd Hamilton
poem
Issue 24
ANGEL’S TRUMPET
I.S. Jones
poem
Issue 24
Delilah, God (A Black Woman) Speaks, & Jezebel
Asia Bryant-Wilkerson
poem
Issue 24
Nothing Else
Darryl Holmes
poem
Issue 24
be born in a rural town
Audacious IAM
poem
Issue 24
On Forgiving The Man Who Altered My Blood & Azealia, The Hue of Public Pool Bitches Who Knew They Were Really Mermaids
Joshua Merchant
poem
Issue 24
Vengeance & 2002
Krystal Nikol
poem
Issue 24
Anti-funeral
Samuel A. Adeyemi
poem
Issue 24
The Gods & Scope Behind the 3
Jason B. Crawford
poem
Issue 24
EXT. HERE – DAY & Ad-Lib
Nova Cypress Black
poem
Issue 24
I slowed this record down & Lost & Somali & Doing Dope on Future’s Boat
Said Shaiye
poem
Issue 24
This month
Elizabeth Mudenyo
poem
Issue 24
Funny Ghost
Sean Talley
art
Issue 23
don’t move
George Stein
art
Issue 23
from Planet Celadon
Genevieve Quick
art
Issue 23
Sorry
Emilia Tongson
art
Issue 23
morse code
art
Issue 23
The Chase
Claire Calderón
prose
Issue 23
The Chase
Claire Calderón
prose
from Proof Of Life
Piper Daniels
prose
Issue 23
Fire in Snow
Kim Magowan
prose
Issue 23
Two Stories
Carolina Ixta Navarro-Gutiérrez
prose
Issue 23
How to Survive Shabbat Dinner
Olga Zilberbourg
prose
Issue 23
Love Note from a Man I Never Met
Eleanor Vincent
prose
Issue 23
Mom’s Final Father’s Day
Jim Ross
prose
Issue 23
We didn’t lose the mail
Hasheemah Afaneh
poem
Issue 23
Rough translations
Claire Brock
poem
Issue 23
dear hwang-og & dear kitty
Juheon (Julie) Rhee
poem
Issue 23
Consent & Field as Runway, Willard, Missouri
Katelyn Joy Wilkinson
poem
Issue 23
New Gravity & New Normal
Gleeson Ryan
poem
Issue 23
Of Separation & Witching Hours
Jen Schalliol Huang
poem
Issue 23
Le Bourgeois
Laura Linart
poem
Issue 23
Dear John
Robin Jeffrey
poem
Issue 23
violet soup love song (for a girl who does not like soup & does not love me back)
Sarah Wallis
poem
Issue 23
Losing a Friend on Tax Day
Sean Madden
poem
Issue 23
Genes
Hannah Wagner
poem
Issue 23
Autistic, Anywhere
Robert Manaster
poem
Issue 23
Van de Graaff And I & Jump Start
Heikki Huotari
poem
Issue 23
Puzzles
Nicole McCarthy
poem
Issue 23
Poetry and Sacred Technologies
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
poem
Issue 22
Place and Personal Narrative
Vernon Keeve III
poem
Issue 22
Bodies and Forms
Amy Berkowitz
prose
Issue 22
Writing from the Visual and the Sonic
Maw Shein Win
poem
Issue 22
Back to Elementary
Raina León
poem
Issue 22
Writing Through Collage
Laura Walker
poem
Issue 22
On Origin Stories
sam sax
poem
Issue 22
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved
Ari Banias
poem
Issue 22
Ancestral Mythology: The Journey
Ingrid Keir
poem
Issue 22
Writing Poetic Trauma Narratives
Cassandra Rockwood Rice Ganem
poem
Issue 22
Telling: Narrative Across Genre
Norma Smith
poem
Issue 22
Writing the Hybrid
MK Chavez
poem
Issue 22
Set Your Writing Mind Free
Cassandra Dallett
poem
Issue 22
Patience
Cora Jaeshke
art
Issue 21
Within Cage
Kiva Xuan Uhuru
art
Issue 21
Judy Grahn
Toya Groves
interview
Tommy Pico
Amber McCrary
interview
Koa Beck
Arya Samuelson
interview
Someplace Else
Sally Ryhanen
prose
Issue 21
Vodka’s Parable
Gwendolyn Schulte
prose
Issue 21
basic hooker
Aliyyah Fazil
prose
Issue 21
The Space Between
Megan Williams
prose
Issue 21
Postpartum Development
Seema Reza
prose
Issue 21
NOTES FOR A SYLLABUS AS YET UNWRITTEN
Bhanu Kapil
prose
Issue 21
Nomenclature for Eating, 1988
Heather J. Macpherson
prose
Issue 21
Arroyo
Anindita Sengupta
poem
Issue 21
Watchers at the Edge
Jennifer Patterson
prose
Issue 21
Winter Sun
Shannon Brazil
prose
Issue 21
Oh Healer,
Selah Saterstrom
prose
Issue 21
Scarring a Generation
Sara Campos
prose
Issue 21
Four Poems
Catherine Wagner
poem
Issue 21
Variations on Hold
Lisa Ludden
poem
Issue 21
Three Routes
fabian romero
poem
Issue 21
Two Poems from “for now we know in part”
linda harris dolan
poem
Issue 21
Brown Sun White Shadow
Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith
poem
Issue 21
Viagra Now Cialis & other Poems
Garin Cycholl
poem
Issue 21
Whose Entire Life I Knew & High Definition
Jill Bergantz Carley
poem
Issue 21
Howdy, Homophobia
Scott Bailey
poem
Issue 21
Muslims at the Frat House & other Poems
Maha Ahmed
poem
Issue 21
Treating with Ice & other Poems
Avren Keating
poem
Issue 21
I am waiting for a terrible sentence to begin
Conor Mc Donnell
poem
Issue 21
Reality TV & Reality TV
Daniel Borzutzky
poem
Issue 21
The Last Weekend (Excerpt)
Shanthi Sekaran
prose
Issue 21
DeathCabGreen – Travis Jackson
art
Issue 20
Bike Lock – Travis Jackson
art
Katrina’s Irony-Joel Strayer
art
Issue 20
In the Studio
Daniel Backman
art
Issue 20
Filbert-West Oakland
art
Issue 20
Buffet
art
Issue 20
Records of Ruin
Daniel Backman
art
Untitled – Muzzy Muskowitz
art
Issue 20
Searching for Paradise – Michelle Ramin
art
Issue 20
Red bird of Happiness
art
Issue 20
Untitled – Emily Ritz
art
Issue 20
“I was dumb then and a little clumsy.”
Esther Samuels Davis
art
Issue 20
Ath Mug – Travis Jackson
art
Issue 20
Untitled – J. J. Indeliclae
art
Issue 20
An Otome Game
Kailee Pedersen
prose
Issue 20
Compression & Purity and The Deluge in Formation
Will Alexander
poem
Issue 20
Daughters of the Dust
Dmitry Borshch
art
Issue 20
Asha
Nora Wessner
art
Issue 20
“I didn’t see the new outhouse at the edge of town.”
Esther Samuels Davis
art
Issue 20
Down, Down, Down
Jesse Rimler
art
Issue 20
Arverne Trolley
Richard Kostelanetz
art
Issue 20
Solitary
Brendan Murdock
art
Issue 20
Vintage Futurism
Daniel Backman
art
Issue 20
All The Waste You Didn’t
Clare Nazarena Tascio
prose
Issue 20
Artist’s Coffee Table
Larnie Fox
art
Issue 20
Whole Life Ahead
Maryse Meijer
prose
Issue 20
Existential Blockhead
Erika Sjule
art
Issue 20
Ladybug
Irene Dellett
art
Year of the Rat (Excerpt)
Marc Anthony Richardson
prose
Issue 20
Bark, Sewing Thread, Gold Leaf
Bodil Fox
art
Issue 20
“Erlinda”
Felix McGuire
art
Issue 20
Fame
Erik Sadberg
art
Issue 20
Frog Pond – John Martino
art
Issue 20
On Myth and Mischief
Melissa R. Sipin
prose
Issue 20
Heart Murmur
Elmaz Abinader
prose
Issue 20
The Wetbacks Are Coming
Adriana Páramo
prose
Issue 20
Sor Penitencia
Erica Verrillo
prose
Issue 20
I Didn’t Know Where To Begin
Heather Kamins
prose
Issue 20
American Acheron
Dancing Bear
poem
Issue 20
Geminid Showers & Health Care Reform
Brenda Hillman
poem
Issue 20
The Body Clock
Eleni Sikelianos
poem
Issue 20
from CLOUD / RIDGE
Stephen Ratcliffe
poem
Issue 20
For the Tongass
Anthony Doerr
prose
Issue 20
The Prisoner
Daniel Alarcón
prose
Issue 20
Accident
Patricia Horvath
prose
Issue 20
Booth
Victor LaValle
prose
Issue 20
A Deep Hole
Danielle Dutton
prose
Issue 20
Heavenly Ornaments
Sheba Karim
prose
Issue 20
Tatsumi
Cecile Pineda
prose
Issue 20
Rock
Matthew Clark Davison
prose
Issue 20
Body of Water
Christine Sneed
prose
Issue 20
Seven Year Itch
Rae Meadows
prose
Issue 20
“Even in the fog, with foggy morning eyes, it is beautiful.”
Esther Samuels Davis
art
Issue 20
Grace Lines
Erik Sadberg
art
Issue 20
Anne Carson
Margaret Miller
interview
William T. Vollmann
Michelle Simotas
interview
Meditation on My Life as a Sewing Machine
Suellen Wedmore
poem
Issue 20
Love Poem For Mesa, AZ
Caroline O’Connor Thomas
poem
Issue 20
Rikki Ducornet
Jennifer Franklin
Jennifer Williams
interview
Bhanu Kapil
Ivy Johnson
interview
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Margaret Miller
Megan Susman
interview
Dickran, Whose Name Went Unrecorded
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
prose
Issue 20
from the Fatalist
Lyn Hejinian
poem
Issue 20
Letters
Gabriella Torres
poem
Issue 20
Cleave/Corporeal Mercy
Rebekah Edwards
poem
Issue 20
Victor LaValle
Andrew P. Heath
interview
Lydia Davis
Deborah Sherman
interview
Tomorrow, Here there.
Padcha Tuntha Obas
poem
Issue 20
excerpt from Nite Selfie
Joel Gregory
poem
Issue 20
From Born Again
Ivy Johnson
poem
Issue 20
Do You Know I’m A Vegetarian?
Jose H. Villarreal
poem
Issue 20
one would say that these were his treasures, and that his heart was there.
Rex Leonowicz
poem
Issue 20
excerpt from the shopgirl handbook
Brittany Billmeyer Finn
poem
Issue 20
Cunt Teeth Mixtape Tracks 1-4
Kate Robinson Beckwith
poem
Issue 20
Jaguar Average
Jennifer Denrow
Julia Cohen
poem
Issue 20
the Pull
Rae Armantrout
poem
Issue 20
swine of the times
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
poem
Issue 20
I am learning how to be in my own body
Cheena Lo
poem
Issue 20
Photograph of an Exploded Tank Tread, Iraq
Donna Vorreyer
poem
Issue 20
excerpts from memory box
Erica Lewis
poem
Issue 20
Chiasmus : Think of Them as Poems
Tim Gilmore
poem
Issue 20
The Tightest Lines
Amir Rabiyah
poem
Issue 20
Sometimes we would find bones
Aimee Suzara
poem
Issue 20
A Bodega on Anywhere Avenue
Oscar Bermeo
poem
Issue 20
Untitled
Chinaka Hodge
poem
Issue 20
i fear my country when it is with your country
Lisa Birman
poem
Issue 20
The Sentiment of Others
Jennifer Moxley
poem
Issue 20
Deeds
Lisa Robertson
poem
Issue 20
Blasphemous Elegy for May 14, 2003
Javier Huerta
poem
Issue 20
Slipped Curve
Edwin Torres
poem
Issue 20
¡Ay! (eye, I).
Rodrigo Rojas
poem
Issue 20
I Have You
Laura Moriarty
poem
Issue 20
The Magnificent Part the Chorus Does About Tragedy
Lisa Olstein
poem
Issue 20
Middle Age
D.A. Powell
poem
Issue 20
Swiss Fish
Lisa Jarnot
poem
Issue 20
dave’s tone
Tyehimba Jess
poem
Issue 20
Before Losing Yourself Completely to Love
Mark Yakich
poem
Issue 20
excerpt from Nite Selfie
Joel Gregory
art
Untitled, 2017
Joel Gregory
art
Oakland in Transit, 2016
Daniel Backman
art
Issue 20