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CONTENTS 

POETRY 

• Kwame Dawes:  "The Darkest Elation"

• Patrick Holian: "Safeway Roses"

• Joshua Burton: "Giving Mary Grace"

• Kate Pyontek: "Blue 52"

• Andrew Hemmert: "After Moving"

• Jay Yencich: The Field of False Horizons

• Andrew Zawacki: "[From] These Late Eclispses"

• Christopher Brean Murray: "The Day & the Hour" 

• Christopher Blackman: "Contemporary Variation of the Flood Myth"

• Aristotle Johns: "Walmart Breakroom"

• Marianne Chan: "Watching the Winter Olympics at 3 a.m., and I Want to Win Gold"

• Fullamusu Bangura: "i’m so fine"

• imogen xtian smith: "Heartthrobbing"

• Matthew Tuckner: "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" and "Worldblind"

• Nick Martino: "Diatomaceous Earth"

• Dorothea Lasky: "The Hunters Enter the Scene" and "The Weather"

• Alex Tretbar: "Claustrophobe’s Sonnet on Metempsychosis"

• Rochelle Hurt: "Mary Cassatt — The Letter (1890-91)" and "Jay DeFeo — The Rose (1958-66)"

NONFICTION 

• Laura Rubenstein: "Here Lies the Body"

• Nell Smith: "Cumberland by Sail"

• B Rivka Clifton: "In My Slut Epoch"

• Rachel Paris Wimer: "We Fly in Planes"

FICTION 

• Tim Raymond: "Crash" 

• Robert Osborne: "Swing"

• Becky Mandelbaum: "Chiclet"

ART 

• Mosie Romney: "Multiple Selves," "The Undertitty," "Tonight's Queen," "In the Room," "All My Babies," "A Sun Suite," "Mystique Style," and "Rain Body" 

• Kara Joslyn: "It’s Never Too Late for Lucy," "I Promise Not to Sell All Your Perfume Secrets(Scentless Apprentice)," "The Upside of Her Hell (Bozo Ode)," "The one-armed man comes into the flower shop and says: What flower expresses 'days go by—and they just keep going by, endlessly pulling you into the future?' And the florist says: White Lily," "Trickster," "Fist Heart / Mighty Dawn Dart," "I had a slight Diversion but I’m back I’m back I’m back I’m back (the present)," and "Never Listen to the Demon at the Crossroads"