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Poetry
ALEX BASKIN | longing is a name for god
LINDA DRACH | Happy Trails
MILES WAGGENER | Hotel Fray Marcos
M.J. YOUNG| Contrapuntal for our First Month Living Together
AUSTIN BATE-AGBORSANGAYA | etymology of the closet
ISAAC SALAZAR| Raw
JORDAN BAILEY | Hip Hop Contrapuntal for Dummies
YASMINE BOLDEN| A Litany of Seven Eintous from Lot's Wife for Her Daughters
LIZA ROSE| Venus at Coney Island
JORDAN COBB | Dear Mary,
EMILY ADAMS-AUCOIN | Reception
SAM YAZIJI | The Death of an Arch
NIRVANA SHAHRIAR | Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear
SOPHIA PAN | An Apocalypse in which no one knows the end
Fiction
SOFIA RABATE | A Meditation on Shoes
BLAKE HC MIHM | Fallow
Creative Nonfiction
ELIZABETH WENGER| Fighting the Bull
Book Reviews
“The land rattles with resilience”: Survivorship, Strength, and Selfhood in Serena Chopra’s A Catalog of Future Mercies by Karen Sherk Chio
"Beyond the Archive of Loss": Family, Race, and Negation in chaun webster's Without Terminus, untraining an archive by Filiz Turhan
The Insatiable Longing for Acceptance: Isolation and Belonging in Claire Fuller's Hunger and Thirst by Corrine Watson
Vol. 17, Summer 2026
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