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Cover art: Embroidery by Madeleine Barnes
Issue 39: Spring 2017
Poetry
Donika Kelly, Two Poems
Ladan Osman, Two Poems
Michael Dhyne, Two Poems
Anne Boyer, About the New Thinkers
Anaïs Duplan, Upon Entering the Waiting Room, I Am Hunger
Alex Greenberg, Aubade Ending in Disappointment
Saskia Hamilton, Avowal
Emily Rose Cole, Hospice
Leah Silvieus, Aubade with Septic Field
Debra Nystrom, Evening Before the Funeral
Arden Levine, Healer
Gabrielle Bates, Poetry Comics
Vincent Toro, “Give Me My Flowers While I Yet Live”
Javier Zamora, from The Book I Made with a Counselor
My First Week of School
Jenna-Marie Warnecke, Grammar Mnemonics for When to Use “Lie” vs. “Lay”
Jeremy Michael Clark, Two Poems
Kaveh Akbar, Two Poems
Susanna Lang, Jazz in April
Ross Gay, Two Poems
Kamilah Aisha Moon, Hunt (1936– )
Zeina Hashem Beck, Two Poems
John Murillo, Contemporary American Poetry
Fiction
Nan Scott Hanway, Jack and Jackie
Mary Alice Stewart, Something Confused About Where It Belonged
Lygia Fagundes Telles, It’s Chilly in Here, Don’t You Think? Translated by Eric M. B. Becker
Dustin M. Hoffman, Scraps on Fire
Matthew Vollmer, Source Material
Andrew Mangan, Roman Candle
Fortunato Salazar, Game Fish
Ben Goldman, Cruise
Interview