Issue 23.1

Fiction

Megan Callahan

• Pigeon Language

Pam Durban

• Memphis

Brandon Ahmad Haffner

• The Route

Nick Kunze

• What Does the Horse Mean?

Bruce McKay

• To the Chief Musician

Robert Sorrell Bynum

• Like a Star
  Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner in fiction

Literary Nonfiction

Marcia Aldrich

• Motel

Jessica Cuello

• Your Life for Another
  Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner

Megan Harlan

• Clare Island: A Prologue

Rachel Rothenberg

• Variations on the Bodies Beneath Our Feet

Brandon Toh

• Possessed by a Dying Tongue

Poetry

Amber Adams

• Under Snow

Rosebud Ben-Oni

• On the Nature of the Speaker of My Poems

Monika Cassel

• Glass House (Patent Specification 494,452)

Matt Donovan

• Picking Raspberries in My Backyard While Someone Explains Brahms and Someone Explains Raspberries
• Self-Portrait as the Person from Porlock After Yet Another Poetry Fail

Asa Drake

• My Mother Has Two Ways of Giving Permission
• I Inherited No Photographs

Jehanne Dubrow

• Blue Mistflower
• Dianthus

Judson Evans

• Homo Vivisectus

Rebecca Foust

• Winter Hymn

Gavin Garza

• Fresno: Ars Poetica Free for non-subscribers
• Meeting David Berman at the Welfare Office Free for non-subscribers

Anne Gerard

• Rounds
• Lifestyles

David Hernandez

• Self-Portrait with Wildfire Ash

Siobhan Jean-Charles

• Ode to Freeze Spell Free for non-subscribers
• Springfield Ghazal Free for non-subscribers

A. D. Lauren-Abunassar

• three bombardments

Dong Li

• from north of the earth

Becka Mara McKay

• Golden Shovel with Nostalgia (Song of Songs 1:11)
• Golden Shovel with Another Translation Problem (Song of Songs 1:12)
• Golden Shovel with the Last Slash Pines (Song of Songs 2:3)

Uma Menon

• Wedding Mehendi
• At the Altar

Weijia Pan

• An Assassin’s Guide to Poetry

Amy Roa

• Wheat

Ananya Kanai Shah

• Jahangir’s Zebra by Nadir’ul-’asri Master Mansur

Stephen Foster Smith

• The Yam Reflects Free for non-subscribers

Adrienne Su

• Why Anyone Would Choose to Live Here

Gordon Taylor

• Memory Foam Free for non-subscribers

James Bradley Wells

• Shells

Play-in-Progress

Omer Abbas Salem

• The Aunties

Artwork

Fritz Horstman

• Folded Photography Free for non-subscribers