Issue Sixteen

Antonia Pozzi
trans. by Amy Newman
Three Poems
— Enchantments
— The Closing Door
— Message

Savannah Sipple
The Butch Buys Her First Snapback Hat

Sakthi Jothi
trans. by Thila Varghese
Snakes and Ladders

P. Hodges Adams
blue month.

Elizabeth Bradfield
Afterimage

Mihaela Moscaliuc
Three Poems
— Fellchaser
— Heartmoor
— Énouement

Rosa Berbel
trans. by Jane Stringham
Three Poems
— Resolutions
— Don’t Look Now
— Witches’ Flight

Yau Ching
trans. by Chenxin Jiang
Two Poems
— Ethical Reasoning Directed at a Steak
— Dissolve Into Wind

Corrie Lynn White
Two Poems
— Pericardium
— Memphis, I Am Large

Elizabeth Diebold
Aesthetics of Flight

Abigale Tabor
Fleshing

Amanda Smith-Hatch
Last Stand

Alicia Ostriker
Three Poems
— Anything in Motion
— Nocturne
— Goldberg Variations in Double-Plague Time

Natalie Eilbert
Chippewa Falls

Allison Pitinii Davis
X / Woodstock

Liz Harms
Two Poems
— Deluxe Mini Play Cube in Planned Parenthood
— Epithalamium with Modern Horror

Irina Evsa
trans. by Yana Kane
Two Poems
— [That Winter]
— The Handoff

Roxana Crisólogo
trans. by Kim Jensen and Judith Santopietro
Two Poems
— They uprooted the dreams from your name
— I’m returning to the dog that barks at me

Teja Sudhakar
Two Poems
— On Navratri, My Mother Asks Me to Come Home
— En Route to India, Another Crisis of Faith

Małgorzata Lebda
trans. by Mira Rosenthal
Five Poems
— Feeding the Dogs
— From the Body: One
— Canopy
— From Bärfuss
— Fuchsia

Susan L. Leary
Strawberry Season

Elizabeth Scanlon
Two Poems
— Early Start
— One thing you know

Holly Mason Badra
[This dewy morning]

Mariangela Gualtieri
trans. by Olivia E. Sears
Three Poems
— Celestial Madness
— The Road Back
— The Daily Falling in Love

Terese Svoboda
Alice Breaks Down the Door

Laura Picklesimer
The Original Model

Karen Heuler
How I Got the Job I Liked

Suphil Lee Park
Pedigree

Lorenza Ronzano
trans. by Anne Greeott
Stupid Girl

Irina Mashinski
trans. by Maria Bloshteyn
The Cave and the Horizon

Emily Jalloul
Wasp & Orchid

Savannah Sipple
Two Days Before Abortion Stopped in Kentucky

Candice M. Kelsey
Two Essays
— Prick
— Midnight: Beaufort, SC

Nicole Zaridze
I Found a Small Toy Figure and Took Her Home

Marie Enger
Hey There, Lonely Driver

Beth Fuller
The Silent City

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