Issue 3.3

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Editorial Introduction

Nicholas Alti:

  • “Levitation, Hypothetically and Now It’s Eleven, Actually”

Carol Barrett:

  • “Russian Knapweed”

Mary Beth Becker:

  • ”Comet”

Stephen Bett:

  • "Milorad Pavić, Landscape Painted with Tea"

Michael Butkovich:

  • “Exodus of a Trump”

Zack Carson:

  • “Impossible Princess”

Kameryn Alexa Carter:

  • “Grace”

Rocío Cerón, Translated by Dana Delibovi:

  • “Five Movements on a Gesture Traced in Air”

Viviane Fae-Moss:

  • “Butch Vagabonds of Indecipherable Origin”

Kelly Gray:

  • “West Country”

Peter Milne Greiner:

  • “The Way Science Fiction Loves”

Daniel Hales:

  • “How to Be Mist”

  • “Mist”

Jake Hargrove:

  • “I Was There When the Heart Fell Out of It”

Alec Hershman:

  • “Out-of-Sigh-Out-of-Mind Works for Everything But Sex & Money &”

  • “River”

A Hua, Translated by Xuelan Su:

  • “Winds Blow Through This Floating World”

D.J. Huppatz:

  • “Honors the Martyrs”

  • “Build a Network”

Stephen K. Kim:

  • “Notification”

J.I. Kleinberg:

  • “recalibrating”

  • “Barren”

  • “making”

Christopher Klingbeil:

  • “Western sugar cooperative”

BEE LB:

  • ”dualities”

Ashley Linkletter:

  • “Michael Douglas wakes up from a nightmare”

Cecille Marcato:

  • “Modern Cartography”

Austin Miles:

  • “tree landscape prized by enterprise”

  • “08/22”

David Moolten:

  • “The Base”

  • “Update”

  • “The Essay”

Rachel Lauren Myers:

  • “Tidal Disruption Event”

  • “Spring”

Damon Pham:

  • “Landscape”

Anthony Ramstetter, Jr.:

  • “oscillation”

Laura Sackton:

  • “Impossible Architecture”

Katherine Schmidt:

  • “Above all else”

Catherine Theis:

  • “Transfusion” (from By a Roman)

Lily Tobias:

  • “Thirty Lines on a Lighthouse”

Cassandra Whitaker:

  • “Brides In The Winter Of The Wolves”

Allegra Wilson:

  • “victory ballad of sacred queers & perverts”

Dialogues — two poets in conversation

Kameryn Alexa Carter and Mary Beth Becker
Nicholas Alti and Damon Pham
Christopher Klingbeil and Cecile Marcato
Allegra Wilson and Kelly Gray

Voices — poets reading their own work

Laura Sackton reads “Impossible Architecture”
Jake Hargrove reads “I Was There When the Heart Fell Out of It”
Katherine Schmidt reads “Above all else”
Lily Tobias reads “Thirty Lines on a Lighthouse”

Cover image source: Image of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
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