Winter 2023, Volume 44, Number 2
Price for individual issue: $12
Cover Art
Corey Pemberton, TT, I'm so done with you
Fiction
Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham, "Sunbathing is Forbidden in the Graveyard"
Ben Francisco, "Two People"
Winner of the 2022 Fiction Prize
Daniel Galef, "ALEA"
R. W. Hartshorn, "Goats"
Alexandria Juarez, "Samples"
Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., "Over the River"
Nonfiction
Siew David Hii, "Kneeling for the Ring"
Tala Khanmalek, "On Language"
Aekta Khubchandani, "More than Trees"
Jabulile Mickle-Molefe, "The Future Is Semantic"
Steffan Triplett, "Disgregate"
Emily Weitzman, "Textual Analysis"
Poetry
Jessica Abughattas, "Beauty"
Nadia Q. Ahmad, "Ghazal: Screw Patience"
Ashna Ali, "A Word of Advice for Bearing Late Capitalism" and "Ode to Bumblebees Defiant in Summer"
Sarah Ghazal Ali, "On Seeing"
Aida Bardissi, "breaking bread" and "aswan ghazal"
Samiya Bashir, "Lethe," "Phlegethon," and "Acheron"
Mark Anthony Cayanan, "Dramaticule: Faith Is Relentless Agreement"
Franny Choi, "September, 2001"
Donte Collins, "Abecedarian at the End of the World" and "Still Life with Birth Certificate"
Winner of the 2022 Poetry Prize
Mele Girma, "pollen"
Dabin Jeong, "My Mother's Sisters - IV"
Molly Johnsen, "After the Grocery Store"
Alexa Luborsky, "Crossword," "April 24," and "Excavation Site at Auschwitz"
Joyelle McSweeney, "Death Styles 8.21.20," "Death Styles 8.13.20," and "Death Styles 8.11.20 + 8.12.20"
Jasmine Reid, "not a suicide note," "at 26, hugs are dangerous," and "she harvests herself"
Monica Rico, "In the presence of the matriarch"
Alafia Nicole Sessions, "Villanelle as Portrait of Upright Melanated Mammal at Mid-Life"
Jess X. Snow, "Gazing at the Grand Canyon from the Moon"
Rosie Stockton, "Deconstitutional Rite"
Jenevieve Ting, "Second Nomenclature" and "Against Extinction"
Translation
Azo Vauguy, excerpts from Zakwato and Loglêdou’s Peril
Translated by Todd Fredson
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Editor
Bernardo Wade
Consulting Editor
Shreya Fadia
Fiction Editor
Sophie Stein
Associate Fiction Editor
Jessica Masi
Poetry Editor
Samandar Ghaus
Nonfiction Editor
Tyler Raso
Readers
Jacie Andrews
Kat Carlton
Meredith Carroll
Laura Dzubay
Ezra X. Fox
Gen Kwon
Wenxi Li
David Park
Alberto Sveum
Eszi Waters
El Williams III
Gisselle Yepes
Interns
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Abi Diaz
Paige Emoff
Andie Godfrey
Production Manager
Doug Paul Case