Winter 2025
Vol 68, No. 1

Editor’s Note: Boris Dralyuk

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Fiction

Allison Krupp: “Swamp City!”

Griffin Reed: “Here, There”

Yiru Zhang: “Renewal”

David Lerner Schwartz: “We Can Voyage There”

Richard Farrell: “…Six-Oh-Three”

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Poetry

Tony Whedon: “Little Havana Allegory”

Georgio Russell: “Piano Man”

Jonathan Diaz: “¿Gloria Cristo, Quién Habla?”; “The Rivers”; “Blast Fishing”; “Yomono”; “Transliteration”; “Language Attrition”

Tim Seibles: “Runaway Blues Villanelle”; “Fish Jump Blues Villanelle”; “Not Bitter Blues Villanelle”

Jennifer Reeser: “To Treat Black Jaundice”

Len Krisak: “Some Kennings”

Ange Mlinko: “The Composition of Colorado”; “Sunburn”

Niall Campbell: “Island Sonnets: Fugay”

Phillip Crymble: “Longarm for the Left Hand”; “Duchess”

Rogert Craik: “John Ruskin and a Nursing Home”; “Founder’s Day”; “‘Memory of a Free Festival’ by David Bowie”; “The Mistress at the Funeral”; “Telling George, Charlotte, and Louis”; “The Very Worst”; “Revenant”; “Grandmaster”; “Roseangle”; “Dear Maxine”

Louie Leyson: “eight of swords reversed”

Cynthia Cruz: “This Accident that Was My Life”

Antonio Machado, by Kelly Scott Franklin: “On the Burial of a Friend”

Nathan Manley: “St. Audubon’s Apocalypse”

Michael Casper: “Seven Gazelles”

Lucinda Davis: “Heraclius”

Meg Kim: “The Second Act”

Alexis Sears: “A Poem About Plums, I Think”

Constantine Contogenis: “That Me”; “Corpsing”; “In Tandem”

Dai Weina, by Liang Yujing: “No One Wears a Uniform in Heaven”

James Womack: “Forgotten Ancestors”

George Uba: “Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Winter”; “The Phone of the Wind Encounters a Butterfly”; “Basement Threnody”

Tyson Hausdoerffer: “Poikilos”

Jana Prikryl: “Small Hours”

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Criticism

Katie Kadue: “Just Saying: Lyric Unseriousness Online”