Poem

When the President Is Black

  • Marlys West

Elegy

  • Bruce Bond

Hwan’s Condition

  • James Shea

Exit Ovidian

  • Dean Young

The Mosquito Monocracy

  • Adam O. Davis

And I Do Desire Your Looking Back

  • ’Annah Sobelman

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It Never Goes Away

  • Sophie Cabot Black

occasional for hollow bones

  • Victoria Brockmeier

Fear of the Possible

  • Anna Catone

Baited Sonnet

  • Brian Henry

The Coast of What

  • Brian Henry

North Cambridge

  • John Koethe

Pure Indonesia

  • Allan Peterson

Stripes of Knowing How Much Further I Had to Go

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder

The Lost Tin Myth

  • Lytton Smith

Poet’s Sampler: Youna Kwak

  • Youna Kwak
  • Joanna Klink

Grace

  • Desirée Alvarez

Torso of an Unknown Soldier

  • Bridgette Bates

(Dialogue in a country graveyard)

  • Matevi Yankelevich

centerfold

  • D. A. Powell

When the Moon Comes Up

  • Barbara Claire Freeman

Hover, Coo

  • Frances Justine Post

The World

  • Marie Howe

Why the Novel Is Necessary but Sometimes Hard to Read

  • Marie Howe
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