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Poetry

TOLA SYLVAN | Doors

KIERON WALQUIST | Drunk

CORDERO ESTREMERA | Race Records

KINDALA SINGH | the wilderness

DAVID WARD | Intarsia

WILLIE CARVER JR. | Ars Audiendi

NICOLE DALCOURT | Roadkill

ADRIANA BELTRANO | Tony Soprano Dreams of Girl Saints

LIAM LESLIE | beyond animal instinct, I

SVETLANA LITVINCHUK | It was only in the after that my father took on his gentleness

SAVANNAH MASSEY| Pretending We Know We Are Pretending

CHISOM OKAFOR | Animalcules

HOMA MOJADIDI | Closure

MEGAN BLANKENSHIP | Tim. Worm





Fiction

SUSHANTH SHYAMSUNDAR | Practice




Creative Nonfiction​


EMILE ESTRADA| The Cat's Urn





Book Reviews


“Engaging the Phantasmagorias of Grief in Emily Skaja's Black Lake" by Isaac Randel

“Everything Sings of Everything Else: Radical Entanglement and Lyric Splendor in heidi andrea restrepo rhodes’ Ampersand Organ" by Claire Jussel

"Mind the Dress Code: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Price of Admission in Kyle Carrero Lopez's Party Line" by Michael Harper


Vol. 17, Fall 2026



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