39.2 Amanda K. Horn
The Airplane Passengers board the plane and sit waiting. In first class, they stretch their legs out, check cell phones for messages they...
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39.2 Han Chang
Uncle, Uncle! My lament was that a kind of intense beauty that I see given to me by science, is seen by so few others; by few poets and...
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39.2 Noah Warren
Chemtrail The government’s been thinking about us again plum tree dripping blood and stones what do you think thoughts running in...
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39.2 Karen Wunsch
Three Legs Are Better than Two Elise was early meeting her son Aaron, thirty-five, for lunch in Manhattan, but she could see through the...
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39.2 Emily Cinquemani
The Truth Is Quiet woman polished bright by nerves, I once felt edgy for dying the ends of my hair purple. The hairdresser asked if I had...
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39.2 Patrycja Humienik
voracious i slip into bed, head full of tulips. if devotion is measured in repetition, i am inconsistent at best. morning, mary carved...
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39.2 Jon Loft
Parrots That’s an animal. When I first heard the sound this morning, I labeled it as another upset alarm and let it dissolve into the...
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39.2 Jamaica Baldwin
Nation When Nation shook her hand she smelled the spoiled plunder. Which alliance is not made of glass? Which sacrifice is not a beloved?...
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39.2 Kayleb Rae Candrilli
The Only Atlas We Need Is One Drafted by Children I know, because a woman told me, even a horse’s shoe against stone can spark a fire...
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39.2 Nadia Shahbaz
Immigrant Making Art Origin Story 1982: I’m a toddler and my hair—black, long, knotted—has been brushed and pinned back with butterfly...
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39.2 Sebastián Hasani Páramo
Studying Abroad in Mexico, Looking up at Man of Fire by José Clemente Orozco Once, in la Plaza de Tapatía, I wandered the streets of...
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Book Review: Love and Other Poems
Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov Tanner Barnes Alex Dimitrov’s third collection, Love and Other Poems, starts in the middle of 14th...
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An Interview with Safwan Dahoul
Form and Emptiness: An Interview with Safwan Dahoul K. Iver See more of Safwan Dahoul's artwork in Volume 38.1 here. As one of the...
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Poetry by Carly Joy Miller
Theater of Inheritance Fenced in the naming, a music: A crescendo of water lifts a shape. This inspires the first conscious attempt at...
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An Interview with Julietta Singh
An Interview with Julietta Singh Katya Buresh Photo: Chase Joynt Julietta Singh is a writer and academic whose work engages the enduring...
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Nonfiction by Melissa Olson-Petrie
Handwashing Dishes You find yourself in Phoenix in your mother’s dark kitchen amid piles of dirty dishes, glasses, pots, and baking pans....
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Book Review: Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner So Young Koo As a Korean living in America, for me the title of Michelle Zauner’s memoir conjures up...
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Book Review: Crushing It
Crushing It by Jennifer L. Knox Tanner Barnes Jennifer L. Knox’s latest poetry collection, Crushing It, is hilarious and heartbreaking....
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Poetry by Matt Mitchell
Lizard Brain how embarrassing of you / to have so many goddamn mouths / each one full / of unclaimed paper receipts / spilling out of...
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Book Review: The Witch of Eye
The Witch of Eye by Kathryn Nuernberger Isabella Tommasone In this curious and perceptive collection of essays, The Witch of Eye,...
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