Issue Eight

Geri Doran
Two Poems
— The Republic of Sleep
— The Clary Mist

Leonora Simonovis
Two Poems
— A Man Held a Gun to My Stomach Once
— Conversation Between Former Revolutionaries

Emma Bolden
Psalm of the Unclean

Garous Abdolmalekian
trans. by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey
Four Poems
— Border
— Pattern
— Poem for Stillness
— On Power Lines

Nan Cohen
Two Poems
— Strand
— Loss

Marlin M. Jenkins
Pokédex Entry #468: Togekiss

Ana Luísa Amaral
trans. by Margaret Jull Costa
Two Poems
— The Breath
— Symptoms and Syndromes

Sam Stokley
Lizard Boy in Love

Angie Macri
Sandtown Road

Claudiu Komartin
trans. by Diana Manole
Two Poems
— Twelve Lines to Drive Fear Away, Twelve Seconds to the Light’s Disappearance
— Getting Ready for the Centennial of the October Revolution

Michael Mark
He Asks Me Questions I Can’t Answer

Juan Lamillar
trans. by Don Bogen
Three Poems
— Everyday Objects
— Names for Time
— The Presence of Death

Oriette D’Angelo
trans. by Lupita Eyde-Tucker
Knee on Dirt

Nadia Anjuman
trans. by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar
One Small Kindness

Krystyna Dąbrowska
trans. by Mira Rosenthal
Three Poems
— White Plastic Chairs
— Wall
— First-Floor Windows

Austin Allen
Current Event

Mary Ann Samyn
Three Poems
— Came and Went
— Poem with a Dolphin in It
— Times I Talked to Him About the Weather

Rainer Maria Rilke
trans. by Alfred Corn
The Fifth Elegy

Corrado Govoni
trans. by Paula Bohince
Shipwreck

Claudia Lars
trans. by Philip Pardi
Two Poems
— My Refuge
— Thinking of the Great Dream

Sidney Wade
Fata Morgana

Miguel Murphy
Cy Twombly

Molly Gaudry
The Story Cleaner

Carlo Paulo Pacolor
trans. by Soleil Davíd
The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Cockroach

Asha Thanki
Somewhere in Bombay, a Fog Descends
Emerging Writers Prize Winner

Douglas W. Milliken
Sister of Dog Fear

Shih-Li Kow
Mary Anne

Naja Marie Aidt
trans. by Denise Newman
The Cat

Mary Ruefle
Three Stories
— The Translator
— Love Story
— The Stagehand

Emily O’Neill
New Girl

Taylor Brorby
On Shame

Álvaro Ortiz
trans. by Kathleen Archer
Murderabilia

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