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A nurse makes questionable decisions in Brandi Handley’s “How’s Your Pain?” Daniel DeVaughn takes the lid off the past in three haunting poems including “A Kernel of Wheat.” Kristen Keckler explores the implications of an improbable discovery, in “Finders and Keepers.”

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A festive fall party uncovers secrets and tests relationships in Sarah Bradley’s “Old Pal.” A character shares a meaningful and meditative memories on family and home in Barnhart’s “Desire Paths.” A character shares her struggles with addiction, the music industry, and race in America in JJ Amaworo Wilson’s “The Song of the Crow.”

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A defiant teenage girl gets an overnight security job at a museum in NYC where she encounters a strange relationship in Van Rung’s “The Persephone.” Alan Michael Parker considers what makes a drawing, and a world, in “The Edge of the World.” Noah Soltau takes the reader on a journey to strange yet familiar places in a suite of poems titled “Pathfinder.”

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Images from The Swimmer (1968) directed by Frank Parry and starring Burt Lancaster. Based on the story “The Swimmer” by John Cheever. — A lonely mother struggles to find her place in a new neighborhood and clings to the one-sided relationship she has formed with her children’s babysitter in Kate Finlinson‘s “Sugarhouse.” Matthew Sidney Parsons cooks up memory and place in “Braise with Salt Potatoes.” Richie Hofmann excavates memory and desire as he investigates the fragile nature of […]

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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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