Issue Fifteen
Cover Art by Cheraine Collette
INSIDE ISSUE FIFTEEN • SPRING 2024
POETRY
Leah Claire Kaminski
Doctor's office with existential dread
C.D. Wright Prize Winner
L. Renée
What's in a Name
Editor’s Choice Poetry Prize Winner
Antonia Pozzi
trans. by Amy Newman
Path
Darius Atefat-Peckham
Two Poems
— Coronation
— Sundered Sonnet: If We Should Be Ghosts
Katie Berta
["Clean up your life"]
Daniel Lassell
Churchgoing
Patrick Kindig
Our Hairless Chihuahua
Lauren Camp
Praised Are You
Ye Hui
trans. by Dong Li
Five Poems
— The Laughter
— Shanghai at Night
— In the Dark
— Elsewhere
— The Dog-Eared Book
Alfonsina Storni
trans. by Rocío De Deco
Loneliness
Kevin McLellan
Sheep Laurel
Joshua Weiner
In the Midlands
Jean-Pierre Chambon
trans. by Peter Brown and Caroline Talpe
Three Poems
— [The puddle opens its wide eye]
— [In the hollow of the night everything sleeps]
— [Despite her dread of insects]
Apollo Chastain
Bloodwork
Judy Kaber
Once
Haolun Xu
Faint Drum
Jane Feinsod
Ornithomancy; οἰωνίζομαι
Rainer Maria Rilke
trans. by Donald Mace Williams
Two Poems
— [My life is not]
— [I am alive]
Anthony Immergluck
In a Tent
John A. Nieves
Tidal Song
Andrea Cohen
Three Poems
— Review
— The Sorrow Apartments
— Life and Death
Patricia Corbus
Reading by Starlight
Aiden Heung
Again I Return to the Battered Town
Jane Zwart
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Michelle Ashmore
Weaving Us Home
Martín Espada
Two Poems
— The Critic's Tongue Did Not Sparkle With the Diamond Stickpin of Wit
— Love Song of the Atheist Marionette
FICTION
Lara Hughes
The Faraday Cage
Emerging Writer’s Prize Winner
John Miguel Shakespear
A New Island
Nadia Born
The Lunar Phases According to My Flat Earth Lover
Sasha Tandlich
A Trinity
Jesse Nee-Vogelman
Tree'd
Gordon Grice
Laughter from the Next Room
Rachel Chapman
DirtyPineapple83
Cassandra Verhaegen
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Uchenna Awoke
Frankincense and Myrrh
Arkansas International Writer-at-Risk Resident
NONFICTION
Carli Cutchin
Slow Burn
Rachel Richardson
Taking the Loss
COMICS
Joe Latham
An Unkindness of Ravens
ISSUE 15 MASTHEAD
Editor-in-Chief
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Founding Editor
Geoffrey Brock
Managing Editor
Sam Campbell
Assistant Managing Editor
Bailey McKinney
Development Director
Elizabeth Muscari
Director, Writer-at-Risk Program
Padma Viswanathan
Assistant to the Director,
Writer-at-Risk Program
Laurie Biggs Marshall
Poetry Editors
Jami Padgett
Claire Scott
Cal Paule
Fiction Editors
Bailey McKinney
Sophie Trist
Cole Eichelberger
Nonfiction Editor
Conor Flannery
Translation Editors
Mayssa Hashaad
Joaquín Gavilano
Reviews Editor
Lou Shapiro
Interviews Editor
Caitlin Plante
Comics Editor
Miranda Valerie
Web Editor
Eden Shulman
Social Media Editor
Erin Pinkham
Designer
Sarah Barch
Lead Copyeditor
Louise Cole
Copyeditor
Kate Stoltzfus
Readers
Prachi Bhutada
CD Eskilson
Allison Flory
Sylvia Foster
Lizzie Fox
Ali Hintz
Amelie Langland
Colleen Noland
Vasantha Sambamurti
Audrey Scrafford
Sidney Thomas
Connor Weirich