Author
Stephanie Carpenter
Michael Czyzniejewski
Laura Leigh Morris
Aimee Pogson
Aimee Parkison
Kim Magowan
Cole Phillips
Todd Robinson
John Hoppenthaler
Bronson Lemer
Wilson Comey
Piotr Florczyk
Sarah Brockhaus
Steve Castro, Christopher Citro, & Dustin Pearson
Genevieve Kaplan
Melissa Kwasny
Paula Cisewski
Emily Rosko
Steve Castro
Susan Grimm
Samuel Amadon
Patrick Carr
Margaret Galey
Adam Clay
Paul Ilechko
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Henry Israeli
John Brantingham
John Sibley Williams
Laurie Blauner
Stelios Mormoris
Tommy Archuleta
Emily Blair
Mary Lou Buschi
Stella Fridman Hayes
Jeff Hardin
Robert Wooten
Kimberly Ann Priest
Alyssa Jewell
Eric Pankey
Mary Ann Samyn
Kelly R Samuels
Maureen Thorson
Jerry Harp
Jose Hernandez Diaz
David Dodd Lee
Tony Leuzzi
David Wanczyk
Allen Braden
A. Molotkov
Bruce Bond
Jeff Whitney
Dana Henry Martin
Natalie Eckl
Amanda Auchter
Aleks Zywicki
Lance Larsen
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Timothy Liu
Steve Fellner
Bleah Patterson
Elizabeth Robinson
Michael Robins
samodH Porawagamage
Josh Jacobs
Rina Shamilov
Peter Leight
Graham Foust
Leah Umansky
Antony Fangary
Martin Rock
Rebecca Pelky
Dana Roeser
Hailey Gross
Joani Reese
Daniel Ostmann
George David Clark
Marc McKee
Barbara Krasner
Mark Halliday
Abū Bakr ash-Shiblī
Translated by Will Pewitt
Ryan Collins
Heather Gluck
Charlie Clark
Jennifer Murvin
Anthony Robinson
Contents
FICTION
Rumpelstiltskins
Signs of Decay
The Little Mom Who Couldn't
Some Dirt to Live By
Fungus Daddy
The Problem Is
Pretend Rain
The Ruined River
NONFICTION
Ghosting My Mother
Mo(u)rning
See Footnote
POETRY
First Tuesday
Facing the River
Hypnagogic Hallucination
We End and the World Begins, Where?
A Change of Occupation
Three Deaths near a Body of Water
When sleeping is forgetfulness
What the Tree in Blossom Knows
Remember how Theseus slayed
The Angle of Incedence
Adult Children
While waiting for fast food
Earth Cushion/Dark Space
from MONOLITH
from MONOLITH
Spoiler
true story
Dear Reader (with a Line from David Berman)
To Time
Ice Ages
There is Nothing Here like Failure
History In the Making
The Night Is Green
Necessary Fictions
Little Bodies in a Boat
Of Silence
A TOWN-WIDE BURNING OF BONES
B-2 and I
Jobs
Today
ELEGY FOR WINTER
A RECLAMATION
A Warning
Before the Tornado Warning
Haibun for Elfreth Alley, the Oldest Continuously Inhabited Residential Street in the U.S.
Remain Seated for the Duration
The Tenor of the Altercation
PRESCIENCE
EARTHLY LIFE
The Law of Conservation of Mass
Third Law
Leaving the Computer Store
How it All Ended
Third Person
Fused with Apathy
Role of Girl as Tree
Last Second of Paradise
Half-and-Half Raffle
Postscript from West of Elkhorn Creek
Love Letter
Note Left in a Bottle Buried in a Wall in Poland
Note Left in a Wound Whose Eye is Closed
Photograph Of Woman Using Marionette Of Herself To Feed Squirrels In The Park
When In Doubt Insert Scare Quotes
Things Counted Can Never Be Uncounted
Transportation Analysis & the Egocentric Benefits of An Imperial Measurement System
Inside My Mother's Brain
don't look now
Car Crash Hole
Biodiversity (in the World of Fairy Tales)
CUPID IS A REAL STRAIGHT SHOOTER
Poem for Pessoa
My Bucket List
A Queer Epithalamium
Two hours after I try to kill myself a nursing student asks who Phoebe Bridgers is
Littoral Rhapsody
Rogue Wave Rhapsody
That Much Seemed True
Jackie & Kevin All Over Again
from To Punani Camp Postcards
Bad Trip Cantabrigiensis
MENSTRUATING IN THE BASILICA
Essay on Debt, in Which People Aren't Very Forgiving
Burden
Only Human
Practical Effects
Ordinary Splendor
khuda
Disappearance Sonnet
Dear Woman
AGE OF TOTALITARIANSIM
elegy (for beautiful monsters)
Stranger, A Cracked Pantoum
Mojave
Mouth
Getting Somewhere
Me and You
A Few Maneuvers
Next Maneuvers
Footnote to A Few Maneuvers
Dots
REVIEWS
The Unstopping Otherness
TRANSLATIONS
sewn of patience
piety, piercing
CHAPBOOK FINALISTS
A Kinder, Gentler Nothing
The Nothing Will Not Declare Itself a National Emergency
Anniversary, 2020
My Mother and Father Go on their First Date
Devil asks why you would mouth the word pity
Sunday at Noon Through Wednesday at 3:30
from Broke Republic