40.1 Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
A Family History Is Sacred (Place the sky in glass too thick for me to bite through. Give me a void big enough to contain what I am about...
40.1 C.T. Salazar
Four Snakes Makes Our Flag After Ashley M. Jones / After Mary Szbist Four Snakes Makes Our Flag silence so indigo it softens the end of...
40.1 Siavash Saadlou
My Mom Told Me Love is a way of returning home— after work, after war, after jail time, after traveling… I think that only love can put...
40.1 Olivia Muenz
moving day I have to put all my pieces // into boxes and get out // of town what a tragedy // to go from one house // to the next what a...
40.1 Ben Kline
Every Turn After the Appalachians, our flight mimics the river’s every turn, approximating its pulse as an earthen vein. My ears pop over...
40.1 Julia Grant
The Blessing of the State “Wake up!” I shouted into our fourteen-year-old daughter Regina’s room. “Mom and I are going to get married!”...