Issue 3.1



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Editorial Introduction

Glenn Bach:

  • from: Atlas

D. W. Baker:

  • Three Poems

Ali Beheler:

  • “Form at the Edge of Air (lying by your side): A Burning Sonnet Crown”

Sarah B. Cahalan:

  • Three Poems

Jo Ann Clark:

  • “Consolation”

Will Cordeiro:

  • "Primer for the Primal”

Lauren Crawford:

  • “Poem to the Unnameable Father”

Stephan Delbos:

  • “DISTANCE & DESTINATION”

Miriam Drev, trans. by Barbara Siegel Carlson:

  • "PRESENCE”

Barbara Duffey:

  • Three Poems

Karen Earle:

  • “Light”

LC Gutierrez:

  • "Recovery Program: Step 2”

Summer J. Hart:

  • “Little Witch Tunnel”

Dennis Hinrichsen:

  • “Artifact, provenance unknown”

Jad Josey:

  • "Everything Goes”

Daniel Lehan:

  • “Three Paris Cemeteries”

Sam Moe:

  • “¡Wonder!”

Daniel Edward Moore:

  • ”They Shall Know Me by My Emails”

Joe Nasta:

  • “reconciliation”

M. P. Powers:

  • “jesus’s beard”

nat raum:

  • “to a home on god’s celestial shore”

Michael Robins:

  • “In the Meantime”

Barnaby Smith:

  • “well trodden”

Matthew Isaac Sobin:

  • “Every Time We Visited Whole Foods You Asked If I Wanted to Buy National Geographic”

Hendri Yulius Wijaya, trans. by Edward Gunawan:

  • Two Poems

Nelle Yvon:

  • “POST-APOCALYPTIC DAYDREAM”

Jiayi Zhang:

  • “bottleneck effect”

Dialogues — two poets in conversation

Hendri Yulius Wijaya & Edward Gunawan
Matthew Sobin & Michael Robins
Will Cordeiro & Jo Ann Clark
D.W. Baker & Barbara Duffey

Voices — poets reading their own work

Ali Beheler reads "Form at the Edge of Air (lying by your side): A Burning Sonnet Crown"


nat raum reads "to a home on god's celestial shore"

Reviews — poets reading others

Connor Fisher, Review of Greater Ghosts by Christian J. Collier

Interviews — poets talking back

Dennis Hinrichsen, Interviewed by Jacob Schepers

Cover image:
Embroidery
French ca. 1774-1792
Open Access via The Met Museum (metmuseum.org)