Issue Five

Heather Christle
Three Poems
— Circumvention
— After Church
— You Said You Weren’t a Brontosaurus but You Had Never Watched Yourself Eating Lettuce.

Jerzy Ficowski
trans. by Jennifer Grotz & Piotr Sommer
Two Poems
— Getting out of the Mirror
— The Initial

Khaled Mattawa
Five Poems
— Psalm of Departure
— Psalm under Siege
— Agadez Blues
— Psalm under Siege
— Tripoli Days

Allison Adair
Rose Garden at Villa Grimaldi

Sandra Beasley
Long John Silver’s

Kinga Tóth
trans. by Timea Balogh
Corn Songs

Chelsea Dingman
After His Mother Dies, My Husband Calls a Suicide Hotline at 3 a.m.

Melissa Range
Three Poems
— Benjamin Lundy Publishes Volume 2, Issue 4 of The Genius of Universal Emancipation on Elihu Embree’s Old Printing Press, Greeneville, Tennessee, April 1822
— James G. Birney, Editor of the Philanthropist, Is Faily Egged off the Ground after a Meeting of the Ohion Anti-Slavery Society, Granville, Ohio, 1836
— John Greenleaf Whittier Argues with Himself about the Uses of Force in the Abolitionist Cause, 1861

Fabián Severo
trans. by Jesse Lee Kercheval & Laura Cesarco Eglin
from Night in the North

Marco Yan
Castle

Cynthia Cruz
Two Poems
— Self Portrait: Lake Constance
— Self Portrait with Face Covered in Tiny White Diamonds

Katrin Ottarsdóttir
trans. by Matthew Landrum and Sámal Soll
The Suicide

Mike Soto
The Dead Women of Sumidero

Claude Wilkinson
Winter Field White with Snow Geese

Eric Pankey
Incidental Objects on a Minor Planet

Kathleen Winter
The MRI tech said

Amaud Johnson
Three Poems
— The Doo-Wop
— Black Dragons
— Smokey

Josh Myers
I’ll Know It’s Winter When I Can’t Feel My Hands

Maya Bejerano
trans. by Tsipi Keller
Seascape

Eleanor Stanford
My Husband and My Lover Having a Beer Together

Derek Otsuji
Among the More Innocent Touristic Amusements of the Old Waikiki

Eric McHenry
Tubthumping

Anonymous
trans. by M.L. Martin
W&E

Corrie Williamson
Chestnut Sabbath

Nicole Brossard
trans. by Sylvain Gallais and Cynthia Hogue
Two Poems
— from Cities really
— Cities with a thought that returns

Bernard Quiriny
trans. by Edward Gauvin
Black Tides

René Steinke
The Field

Peter Orner
Three Stories

Ivana Bodrožić
trans. by Ellen Elias-Bursać
No Room

Kate Simonian
Mothlight

Bragi Ólafsson
trans. by Lytton Smith
The Third Shot Glass

Farah Ali
Loved Ones

Keija Parssinen
The Pearl Diver’s Son

María Sonia Cristoff
trans. by Katherine Silver
The Dogs of Cañadón Seco

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
State of Exception

Anneli Furmark
trans. by Hanna Strömberg
Horses

Edward Gauvin & Claire Stephens
Invisibility

Editor-in-Chief
Geoffrey Brock

Managing Editor
Anthony Blake
Elizabeth DeMeo

Development Directors
Cheyenne Autry
Peter Mason

Outreach Director
David Brunson

Poetry Editors
Z.D. Harrod
J. Bailey Hutchinson

Assistant Poetry Editors
David Brunson
Josh Luckenbach
Peter Mason
Emma Van Dyke

Fiction Editors
Joy Clark
Frisco Edwards
Sacha Idell

Assistant Fiction Editors
Lucas Palmer

Nonfiction Editor
Anna Vilner

Translation Editors
Jacob Collum
Samantha Kirby
J.T. Mahany

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Madeline Vardell

Comics Editor
Claire Pincumbe

Reviews Editor
Madeline Vardell

Interviews Editor
Patrick Font
Emma Van Dyke

Web Editor
Josh Moore

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Joy Clark

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J. Bailey Hutchinson
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Designer
Josh Moore