Poem

1776

  • Claire Sylvester Smith

Rough Day

  • Ed Skoog

Burrow

  • Margaret Ross

Assisted Living

  • Margaret Ross

Same-Day Resolution

 

  • Trey Moody

Divide and Conquer Algorithm for the Pacifist

  • Jeff Encke

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To Be a God

  • Justin Boening

Pink Reef

Introduction by Timothy Donnelly

  • Robert Fernandez

Song of Upbringing

  • Chuya Nakahara

Poem for Four Years

  • Danniel Schoonebeek

Leopold Stokowski tells Marian Anderson, “My roof is too low for you.”

  • Elizabeth Robinson

American Psalm

  • Dean Rader

A Fly Inside a Fly a Thought Inside a Thought and Mario Santiago Inside Mario Santiago

Translated from the Spanish by Laura Healy

  • Roberto Bolaño

Hold the Finch

  • Jean Valentine

from The Uses of the Body

  • Deborah Landau

Eat What You Kill

  • Sophie Cabot Black

The Boy Under the Car

  • John Freeman

Ecstasy

  • Jane Miller

Declining Public Appetite for Large Wars of Occupation

  • Dara Wier

Nocturne

  • Julia Guez

The State Para-Military Force Speaks

  • Raena Shirali

Quinceañera

  • Erika L. Sánchez

One Hand in the Fig Basket

  • Catherine Blauvelt

from The Self Unstable

  • Elisa Gabbert
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