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A man tries to restart his life in George Singleton’s “Checking Out.” Jim Huff sails into the past and future on the wings of a song in “What’s Wrong , John?” Judy Kaber plumbs the icy depths of grief in three poems including “How Are You Holding Up?”

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Clayton Adam Clark survives the recurring flooding of many rivers in three excerpts from his long poem, Before Me Is Always Fled. An aspiring writer navigates social circumstances at a writers’ conference in Daniel Abiva Hunt’s “Before Our Time on this Earth Ends.” Chrissie Anderson Peters examines the usefulness of some fears, in Fear of Bees.

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Tomás Baiza observes the complicated goings-on around him in “La Quinta Parking Lot, Caldwell, Idaho.” Meg Sniderman enacts a morning in “A Hospital Talking-to, In Six Acts.” And Chris Arthur sees what is customarily hidden in art and in life, in “Bright Side Blues.”

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From near-feral neighbor children to herbicide deserts, Seth Brady Tucker finds hope and love in four poems including “Lament for the Crabgrass, or Song to the Barn Swallow.” Rolli investigates what’s so funny about sleeping and not sleeping, in “Insomniac.” And Lynne Sharon Schwartz explores memory and trust in an excerpt from her novel A Stranger Comes […]

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Cynthia Cruz traverses the liminal spaces of dreams, twilight, and hotels to depict interiority & childhood with a glittering, haunting clarity in five poems including “Carnival Mask, Green, Violet and Pink (Columbine).” Jamila Osman weaves together topics of birth and original sin with childhood and motherhood in three lyrical poems including “Original Sin.” Jameson Fitzpatrick explores the affective and embodied potential […]

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The signal of an object jogs the memory of the narrator in Lucile Barker’s “Green Grolsch Bottle.” Andy Fogle remembers the past and an imagined future, in “My Mom, the Devil, and the Afterlife.” And Ralph Sneeden celebrates the rhetoric of the “aftermath” in five poems including “Don’t Take Me Alive.”

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In this all nonfiction issue, Karen Wunsch fantasizes, and then thinks the better of her fantasy, in “On a Wintery Afternoon.” Rick Bailey considers the absurdities of rescue in “Help.” And Lynne Golodner considers what we leave behind, in the cupboard and elsewhere, in “Dishes.”

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A young, single parent navigates work and his home life in Lauren Woods’ “Nine-Hundred Miles to Tampa.” A father navigates his relations, in “The Reunion” by Matt Barrett. And Taylor Franson-Thiel offers her knees to the landscape in four poems including “When Listening the Ear Becomes God.”

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Nansý Sunadóttir slices through memory and longing in four poems from her collection I’m Sharpening My Knife, I’m Coming Home, translated from Faroese by Matthew Landrum. Readers experience the city of Pittsburgh on a fall afternoon: football, snow, memories of old, and shots of Black Velvet, in Joseph Bathanti’s “Hot Metal.” And Jane Newkirk considers the demands of […]

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From New York to Japan, an exploration of the fine line between pleasure and pain in Toshiya Kamei’s “Sworn Brothers.” Monica Woelfel examines the limits and rewards of empathy in “What Carries Us Across.” David B. Prather allows light to shine on the most intimate of moments in three poems including “I Am Only a Part […]

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Phillip Hurst explores the line between wanted and unwanted books, in “In the Library of Shelved Dreams.” Richard Hague celebrates the emergence the southwest Ohio Brood X cicada in a sequence of poems including “The Mind That’s in the Tool.” And transport yourself to 1971 and acquaint yourself with the complicated life of Evelyn, in Karen […]

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In this all-poetry issue, Kate Maude celebrates all that is hard to name, in four poems including “The Prompt Was to Write About Evil.” Pauletta Hansel gives voice to generations of her ancestors in poems including “Portrait of My 7th Great-Grandmother as a Bible Story.” And Michael Garrigan explores environmental dislocation in three poems including “Dead Elk Antlers a Constellation.”

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