Welcome to our Fall 2018 Issue! Click here for a few words from our Editor In Chief about the view from her windows, poetry-as-balm, and adjuncting craziness.

 

Featured Poet: Hanif Abdurraqib   We talked to the accomplished essayist, cultural critic and poet about his short-lived band, his literary influences, ‘self-fashioned retreats’, flowers, Marvin Gaye, Fall Out Boy, the Midwest, and much more.

 

Featured Artist: Nasreen Khan

 

Ruth Baumann                       This Could Be a Starting Place

 

Ace Boggess                  Bridge

 

Brad Buchanan            The Impaired Visionary’s Bluff

 

Anne Champion            Sitting in a Bed Bug Infested Hotel

How Capitalism Causes My Small College to be Bought by a Wealthy University and I Lose My Job

 

 

Featured Artist: charles i. letbetter

 

 

Catherine Chen           world shrunk to the size of me

 

Aidan Coleman            Machinery of Summer

 

Annie Diamond          On the revolutions

Thirdhand

 

Sean Thomas Dougherty                   I Did Not Go to AWP

 

 

Featured Artist: Sarah J. Sloat

 

Adam Gnuse                I Watch My Nephew Grow On Instagram

 

Kirby Knowlton           Pelvis with the Moon

 

Chloe Martinez           36 text messages, 16 missed calls

The Jade Cicada

 

Tiana Nobile               Mother of Rock

Mother of Cloth

 

Featured Artist: Lauren Ullrich

 

Liam Powell    IT WAS KABUL AND IT WASN’T KABUL

 

Vismai Rao       Shopping for Exit Holes

lightness

 

Christopher Records         America is just an experiment in endurance that doesn’t hand out trophies

The face across the dance floor

 

Cindy Song             Grocery Store Narrative

 

 

 

Featured Artist: Joanna Valente

 

 

Gabrielle Spear         Prison Transfer

 

Ross White              SELF-PORTRAIT WITH SINGLE MALT SCOTCH AND GUITAR HERO

 

Chavonn Williams Shen              Constellations

Self Portrait as a Chair