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Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Janice N. Harrington, Neal Hammons, Alex Borden, Nicky Beer, Jacques J. Rancourt, Steven Espada Dawson, øjeRum, and many more.

Art Feature

Selections from “Silent Figure with Landscape”

øjeRum

Fiction

Crossing Guard

Michelle Ross

A Promised Land via the Central Pacific

Neal Hammons

Ybeltrab

Scott Garson

Bone to Rock

Jennifer Marie Donahue

The Handkerchief

A.A. Balaskovits

The Terrorist

Bipin Aurora

Nonfiction

Other People’s Children

Cathy Mellett

Eulogy

Alex Borden

Poetry

Friday of Anger

Ahmed Zaid

In Which I Try to Make More Gentle My Revolt Against My Own Smallness

Contrapuntal Sestina in Which I Refuse to Perform the Disappearing Act

Rachael Lin Wheeler

Catalogue of Intrusions on My Mother’s Breast(s)

Preeti Vangani

Albino Skunk

Jacques J. Rancourt

Wordless on the Shore

Freeing Ghosts

Triin Paja

Ode Wherein I Am Samus Aran

Rita Mookerjee

Self-Portrait as Butterfly

Amanda Hope

The Only Rain

How Inextricably Amoebas Love The Body

Andrew Hemmert

SPIRIT PLACE

Janice N. Harrington

Sa’eb Tabrizi’s, I hear God’s promise of forgiveness

Rebecca Ruth Gould & Kayvan Tahmasebian

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Carlina Duan

Self-Portrait as Moon Corpse

Steven Espada Dawson

The Uvula Knows I Will Be Motherless One Day So She Weeps All Night as I Sleep through the Last Days of the Republic

Claudia Cortese

Works Cited

Diaspora Poem

& Now

Andrés Cerpa

Our sister, who is anger

Little Faith Poem

Nicky Beer

Interview

Writing Towards Circumstances: An Interview with David Yee

Nikki Barnhart

Reviews

BLISS MONTAGE by Ling Ma

Sahalie Angell Martin

The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Danielle Batalion Ola

Notes on Contributors