Issue 4.2

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Denver Butson:

  • “misnomers”

Sam Calhoun:

  • “Stewart’s Point”

Vincent A. Cellucci:

  • ”once upon a time in security”

  • “so that it did not spoil / elsewhere”

Rocío Cerón, trans. by Dana Delibovi:

  • "Omens, Stone Upon Stone”

Seth Copeland:

  • “Someone Told Me to Download an App Today”

Emily Corwin:

  • “The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)”

  • “Last Year at Marienbad (1961)”

A.J. Dehan:

  • “Prayer for Winter”

Connor Fisher:

  • “Horse Thieves”

Egan Garr:

  • “November Sonnet”

Anne Gerard:

  • “Falconhouse”

Joshua Gottlieb-Miller:

  • “The Gulf Reflects”

David Hadbawnik:

  • Two from Occupations

Jeffrey Hecker:

  • "Meshanticut Green Interchange (Cranston, Rhode Island)"

  • "Jane Byrne Interchange (Chicago, Illinois)"

Marcy Rae Henry:

  • “i am so easy to seduce”

Dominic W. Holt:

  • “American Garden”

daniel joseph:

  • “not to forget”

Ann Keniston:

  • “Opaque Landscape”

Joshua Lillie:

  • ”There’s a Hole in My Neighborhood Down Which of Late I Cannot Help but Fall”

Svetlana Litvinchuk:

  • “Falciform Ligament”

Meredith MacLeod-Davidson:

  • “I want to live as something porous like volcanic rock”

Lucas Mamaril:

  • “Lydia”

  • “waking up: water in my ears and flowers in my beard”

Ioana Nicolae, trans. by Clara Burghelea:

  • “September”

Patty Paine:

  • “Reading the ending first”

Akhila Pingali:

  • “Stern Figures”

Ana Lamela Rey, trans. by Shilyh Warren:

  • “I walk”

  • “You would be happier”

Graciela Reyes, trans. by Jackie White:

  • “Lightning Bugs”

Victoria Reynolds:

  • “My grandfather uses yesterday's New York Times to"

Chad Rutter:

  • “Fox Lake”

Jacqui Somen:

  • “I have run in many places”

Maria Helen Weber, trans. by Elton Uliana:

  • “Parenthesis”

Samuel Wu:

  • “Pebble”

Dialogues — two poets in conversation


Jackie White & daniel joseph
Emily Corwin & Denver Butson
Dominic Holt & Meredith MacLeod Davidson

Voices — poets reading their own work


Chad Rutter reads “Fox Lake”
Vincent A. Cellucci reads “”once upon a time in security” and “so that it did not spoil / elsewhere”
Akhila Pingali reads “Stern Figures”
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller reads “The Gulf Reflects”