Issue 1.3

Editorial Introduction

JC Alfier:

  • “Woman at Dusk with Stormlight”

Glen Armstrong:

  • “Commencement Speech”

  • “Helium”

Jenkin Benson:

  • ”I Saw You (Western EST vs. Eastern EST)”

Rich Boucher:

  • “The Fact That A Lot Of Churches (If Not All Of Them) Have Ugly Bathrooms Is Just One Of The Things I’m Trying To Tell You Here”

Derek Coulombe:

  • “Two Metal Belly Men”

Vanessa Couto Johnson:

  • “Concept Creep”

  • “That banner has my terms of service”

James Croal Jackson:

  • “Dynamic”

Richard Cross:

  • “Sea Beach at Dusk” (trans. of Theodor Storm)

  • “Nocturne” (trans. of Heinrich Heine)

  • “Fall Day” (trans. of Rainer Maria Rilke)

Bethany Cutkomp:

  • “I Am the In-Between”

Satya Dash:

  • “Performance Review Anxiety”

Leslie Grollman:

  • “Thus the Arroyo after the Storm"

  • “THE RED”

Gabriela Halas:

  • “Luna-Tic-Songs”

  • “Words I’ve Lost (We’ll Speak Again in the After-Life)”

Grant Hill:

  • “Big Girls Don’t Cry”

Dennis Hinrichsen:

  • “[mosaic] With Henry David Thoreau and a Glove”

Brent House:

  • “Pastoral [God must dwell in depths]”

  • “22. from The Fallow Field Laments”

Stefanie Kirby:

  • “postmortem haibun”

  • “sacrilege”

Kathryn de Lancellotti:

  • “Find Me”

Ella Leynard:

  • ”Love”

Joshua Martin:

  • “Unity of Central Ground Trumpets”

  • “Wicker Framing Baskets”

  • “Hypothetical Alarm Clock Mischief”

Matthew McDonald:

  • “OCTOPUS REHEARSAL”

Sheleen McElhinney:

  • “Visitor”

  • “Tethered”

Kate Noble:

  • “Tread soft o’ foot”

Carolyn Oliver:

  • “Eve Brings the Head of Charlotte Corday to the Museum to View The Death of Marat”

Jake Romm:

  • “Highway Blues”

  • “Maine Dream #1”

Matthew Schmidt:

  • Excerpt from “on of My”

Smitha Sehgal:

  • “Race Horse nee Fire Fly”

  • “A Deer Could Paint Grass”

Sarah Sloat:

  • “Despite This Fair and Honourable Record”

  • “My Darling”

  • “With Beautiful Unanimity”

  • “The Subsequent Hue”

  • “Haunted o’ Nights”

Joshua St. Claire & Amber Winter:

  • “Fallen Leaves Fill the Sky: A Hyakuin Renga”

Emma Sullivan:

  • “Please Text Me Back”

Lavinia Xu:

  • “The Girl Mediates the Meadow”

  • “In a Wild Dream”

Dialogues — two poets in conversation

Lavinia Xu & Smitha Sehgal

Matthew Schmidt & Dennis Hinrichsen

Jake Romm & Leslie Grollman

Voices — poets reading their own work

Bethany Cutkomp reads “I Am the In-Between”

Gabriela Halas reads “Luna-Tic-Songs”

cover image provided by JC Alfier
“Woman at Dusk with Stormlight”