Winter 2023, Volume 44, Number 2

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

MASTHEAD

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

Assata Dailey

Abi Diaz

Paige Emoff

Andie Godfrey

Production Manager

Doug Paul Case