Summer 2023, Volume 45, Number 1

Cover Art

rachael catharine anderson

Fiction

Ash Kaul, "Telephonic Tidings from Kashmir"

Melissa Llanes Brownlee, "Trophies" and "Cookies"

Julia Moncur, "The Fisherwoman"

Areej Quraishi, "Tawaif"

Debra J. Stone, "Chocolate Annie Oakley"

J.K. Tsosie, "Three MC's and One DJ"

Evan Williams, "Chest to the Ground and Toes Pointed Downward"

Nonfiction

Fatima Alharthi, "Chickpea"

Benjamin Garcia, "A Personal History of Fuck"

Zach Jacobs, "Detail Work"

Robin Lee Lovelace, "Different Times, Different Degrees, Same Shit"

Michael David Lukas, "Bedtime Story"

Poetry

Geoff Anderson, "Twenty Pounds of Meat"

Hadara Bar-Nadav, "Zoom Funeral" and "The Hand of God"

Aida Bardissi, "aswan ghazal"

Aaron Coleman, "Glitch Miracles Here"

Kwame Dawes, "Three Latter Day Duppies," "Thief," and "Orgasm"

Chloe Forsell, "Ode to the Big Chop"

Aerik Francis, "Gigan for Opening the Urn"

Kate Gaskin, "21 Weeks" and "365 Days"

Janice N. Harrington, "Forethoughts" and "On the Kickapoo Trail"

K. Henderson, "The Glacier Speaks"

Sean Hill, "Braided in Denali"

Sophia Holtz, "roe"
Winner of the 2022 1/2K Prize

E. Hughes, "I Call Distraction a Bird" and "I Know Love by the Morning"

Hannah Perrin King, "UNTIL FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH COMES THE STERLING BIT OF MY MOTHER'S GIRLHOOD"

Cate Lycurgus, "Dear I.—"

Elisávet Makridis, "Self-Portrait as Cross Section of Tree Trunk"

Damien McClendon, "A Scratched Record"

andriniki mattis, "batty empire"

m. mick powell, "[there are so many things I'm not allowed to tell you]"

Sandra Simons, "The Serenity Motel," "My Poem Outgrows Its Impetus," and "The Container Store and the Cherry Tree"

Clancy Tripp, "Once, I Got Trapped in a Leather Suitcase"

Matthew Zapruder, "Sundays"

Folio: The Possibility Is Here

Ace Boggess, "Did It Still Feel Like You Were in Prison?"

Demetrius A. Buckley & H.R. Webster, "I Can't NOT Write Poems While the World Is Ending"

Grady DeRosa, "Rice Street," "Hands," and "Woven"

Henry Goldkamp, "[I paint landscapes mostly]" and "[dude I do not fear death]"

Brian Lee Kilpatrick & Susan L. Leary's diary and poetry collaboration

Antonio Sanchez-Day, "fishbowl"

Kashawn Taylor, "Lamentations"

Rahsaan Thomas & Zinaria Williams, "Collaborative Connections"

MASTHEAD

Editor

Bernardo Wade

Fiction Editor

Jessica Masi

Poetry Editor

El Williams III

Nonfiction Editor

Bernardo Wade

Readers

Austin Araujo

Brianna Best

Nina Boals

Ray Chen

Sophia Ellingham

Yaerim Gen Kwon

Sarah Lawler

Essence London

Emily Mattoon

Tyler Patton

Natalya Pomeroy

Tyler Raso

Teja Sudhakar

Alberto Sveum

Eszi Waters

Gisselle Yepes

Cindy Yu

Interns

Assata Dailey

Abi Diaz

Paige Emoff

Andie Godfrey

Production Manager

Doug Paul Case