——— finalist ——— Ancient Wisdom Lavanya Vasudevan At our wedding ceremony, which his family has paid for because mine couldn’t, he points...

Lottery I bought the word antediluvian and filled my Honda with pairs of strange birds I bought back from extinction. After you left, I...

Art by Woshibai Fiction Interrogation Kite Walkman Cinema WOSHIBAI was born and raised in Shanghai, China. He is a freelance illustrator...

Pickled Garlic All over Sofeh Mountain, sensing life, garlic escapes its winter sleep in scapes we cut and bind together in a sheaf, the...

The Children and the Leg Found in June Megan Giddings When the children noticed the leg, they were sure it belonged to an animal. Jessica...

Art by Safwan Dahoul Dream 112 Dream 152 Dream 151 Dream 8 Dream 21 Dream 55 Dream 73 Dream 104 SAFWAN DAHOUL, as one of the foremost...

Elegy with Mayfly Sex Love, I want to tell you all I learned today of the mayfly, known for their one-day life spans. How they’re named...

Wài Gōng is Dancing in a wool cap. in the bathtub. on market streets & in the fat doorway of his first home, where jars overflow with...

It’s Important I Remember That in Order for White People to Study My Life They Must First Study My Body— once my muscles harden in a...

The Length between July and October for Sara Akant is a poem, knees on wooden floors, the sun like a porchlight upon your hands....

Duwende Sonnet / Applying for an O1-B Visa If I list the word enchantment under occupation, I imply that it’s never been felt on these...

Sally Wen Mao. Oculus. Graywolf Press, January 2019. $16. The poems in Sally Wen Mao’s Oculus are about seeing and being seen. Mao shows...

The clock here is quiet so you make ticking sounds with your tongue in the roof of your mouth. You dissolve hours like a mortar and...

The Language of Marriage _______________this poem is indebted to C.D. Wright’s “And It Came To Pass” next woman in line & i’ve had the...

The Readers Southeast Review, Volume 38.1 Bridget Adams Camille Adams Fatima Alharthi Jia Alonso William Anderson Tanner Barnes Brittany...

———finalist——— On Deep Conditioning August, and the boy wells up with pride like the city bird. His first love was not a fade, but...