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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”