Issue 8: Summer/Fall 2023

Poetry
“Apostrophe,” “Lottery (I’ll never know)”
by Kristin Robertson

Poetry
“Fallen,” “Mirror and Table”
by Brian Kim Stefans

Poetry
“Racket on the Petals,” “Hedge Man,” “Vanishing Point Canto,” “Freddie Mercury in Paradiso,” “Jeanne Lee, Conspiracy”
by Diane Mehta

Essays/Nonfiction
“Vanguard Mail Operations”
by Kristen Gallagher

Poetry
Morning Without School
by Caitlin Thomson

Poetry
“self-portrait with atmospheric river & cougar sighting,” “self-portrait with hummingbird & beaver moon,” “You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know”
by Marci Vogel

Poetry
Dummy Ventriloquist
by Michelle Bitting

Conversations
Attuning Yourself to Yourself: A Conversation with Victoria Chang
by Matthew Zapruder

Poetry
“Falling Blue, 1963,” “Untitled # 10, 1990,” “Grey Stone II, 1961”
by Victoria Chang

Essays/Nonfiction
Community Is My Poetics: the 2023 Chowdhury Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech
by Victoria Chang

Coming September
Essays/Nonfiction
“In Praise of White Hair”
Diary
“Creve Coeur I”
Coming October
Poetry
“Hunger,” “Red Bath,” It Is Not a Bridge,” “The Hart”
Diary
“Creve Coeur II”
Diary
“Creve Coeur III”
Fiction
“The Depressed Baby”
Poetry
“Hither,” “Submission”
Diary
“Creve Coeur IV”
Conversations
W.S. Di Piero Interviewed by David Biespiel
Poetry
“Nat Turner’s Dream,” “The Morning Sky,” “More Words,” “On Television”
Eye of the Beholder
“Normporn”
Poetry
“LOVE THE FLICKER,” “MOTHERS”
Coming November
Essays/Nonfiction
“Last Day”
Poetry
“So You Want to Travel the World”

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