39.1

CONTENTS
 
POETRY
Hajjar Baban, “Words I First Used in Poetry”
Victoria Chang, “News of the Assassin,” “The Shortest Night,” “Ancestral Voices,” “Lives of the Artists,” “The Gods”
Aldo Amparán, “Endings”
Luther Hughes, “Making the Bed”
Justin Jannise, “Mercury in Retrograde”
Taylor Byas, “Your Husband Says Let’s Try Something New,” “Conversion | On Cincinnati’s Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer”
Jaz Sufi, “Litany to Protect Against Possession,” “When My Classmates Ask Me If My Father Took Down the Towers”
Essy Stone, “Norris Lake,” “Pseudo-Cyclical”
Arman Avasia, “The Only Safe Way to Hold a Blade Is to Point It at Someone Else”
Marissa Davis, “When the Blood Came,” “Elegy for the Living”
Denise Duhamel, “I Am Not an Astronaut”
Ae Hee Lee, “Hyu :: In-Between,” “El Milagro :: Edges”
Carolyn Orosz, “Eclogue with Grappling Hook”
Kelly Weber, “Conversion with Petrichor and This Clitoris”
Maria Zoccola, “i sit with miss jean to learn witchcraft at a catholic nursing home”
Kelli Russell Agodon, “Melancholy Never Expected Much,” “Sometimes I Wonder If I’m Reading
 
ART
Min Liu, “Leg Monster,” “1,” “2,” “3,” “4,” “5,” “6,” “7,” “8,” “9”
Jacqueline Tse, from the series “Death by Sugar”: “Birthday Cake,” “Kids,” “Double Cone,” “Pie,” “Four’s a Crowd,” “Tart,” “IC1F,” “The Kiss,” “Wedding Cake,” “IC3”
 
FICTION
Lauren Green, “Instructions for Lovers”
Amina Gautier, “Mean to Me”
Brandon Taylor, “Otto”
Laura Perkins, “Flush”
 
CREATIVE NONFICTION
N.R. Robinson, “Junior Village”
Kristine Jepsen, “Hallowed”
Emerson Henry, “Chesticle Festival”