EDITOR’S NOTE

POETRY
PAUL S. UKRAINETS*  authority
DEREK CHAN*  Horse Heart / Remnant
KAILY DORFMAN*  Contrariety / On the World / Equivalence
ABIGAIL DEMBO*  The Night and Its Boat / Later / The Handcart
CIANGA  me, my assigned agent, and our beef / the heat or the weapon or the child / blue fever
NATHAN MCCLAIN  I don’t want to be colored / Cost Analysis
BRANDON KRIEG  On First Hearing / Alternate Tuning
PATRICK PHILLIPS  Shit Story
JACKIE CHICALESE*  Grief Fragment / Flower Theory / Whitetail
L. A. JOHNSON  Repair
JANAN ALEXANDRA  Poem from the Other Side / Dear Y
DANIEL BARNUM*  Nocturne / Isengrim
LISA WILLIAMS  Midway through the storm—
ALISHA DIETZMAN  Czech Movies / California
HUAN HE*  Punctum / Iridescence
MERCEDES RODRIGUEZ*  [Dreamtigers] / [Dreamtigers] / [Dreamtigers]
JANE HUFFMAN  After Simone Weil
NAN COHEN  From the Lost Notebook 1 / From the Lost Notebook 9 / From the Lost Notebook 22
YAEL HERZOG*  Drawing Class / After Seeing the Small Stone Sculptures of Enheduanna, the First Poet / Sculpting

FICTION
JOEL CUTHBERTSON*  Family Brief
SHARON SOLWITZ  Once
LUKASZ GRABOWSKI*  Elision
NATHAN BLUM*  Water Tower
NESTOR WALTERS*  Nursery
NICK FORETEK*  Things
OLAKUNLE OLOGUNRO*  Home Training
AELITA PARKER*  Riverbed of Souls
DEVON WALKER-FIGUEROA  Geode
JESSIE LI*  How We Met Our Father
MAGGIE MULL*  Rounded at the Tips
CHRISTINE SNEED  Over My Dead . . . Whatever

NONFICTION
Reckonings
PATRICK MADDEN  Recense (visited)
JAMEELAH LANG  The Father, the Son
KAVEH BASSIRI  Tarjoma

Reflections
BRUCE SNIDER  My History in Lipstick

Testimonies
SEÁN CARLSON*  Painting the Last Photograph: Art and Memory After Genocide with Chath pierSath

Investigations
CALEY HENDERSON*  Of Coywolves and Women
JODIE NOEL VINSON  The Long Tail: Nietzsche’s Metaphorical Menagerie

Traveler’s Notebook
MICHAEL CARSON*  Only Life Has a Way Out

TRANSLATIONS
ALEŠ ŠTEGER  Europa
trans. Brian Henry
FISTON MWANZA MUJILA  Thoughts Before Dying / They Blew Their Noses
trans. J. Bret Maney
SERGIO RAMÍREZ  from On Crowds & Corruption (1972)
trans. Sebastián Andrés Grandas*
FELICIA FUSTER  And What Do You Say: VII / And What Do You Say: IX / And More: VI
trans. Marialena Carr*
MARCKENSON JEAN-BAPTISTE  My Crime / The Earth Keeps Blowing / Damn Tears from the Sky
trans. Ariel Francisco
STAMATIS POLENAKIS  Record of a Dream / Never Talk to Strangers / Odysseus’s Birth
trans. Nick Moschovakis*
SHIZUKA OMORI  Five Tanka
trans. Yuki Tanaka
LINDA LÊ  from Reeves C.
trans. Erag Ramizi*
NATHALIE SCHMID  Golden Clover / In the Dust / Leeway
trans. Ellene Glenn Moore*

PERFORMANCE PIECES
Jerry Lieblich*  without mirrors

REDISCOVERIES
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE  Gutenberg’s Secret Project

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

*emerging writer or translator