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Editor’s Note: “My Father’s Pen” by David L. Ulin

ESSAYS/NONFICTION

“Notes on Sleaze” by Daniel Torday

“That LA Bug” by Louise Steinman

“Alias Intrepid” by Melissa Haley

FICTION

“God’s Big Mouth” by Henneh Kyereh Kwaku

“Night Bus” by Rory Say

“Pearl” by Tara Ison

“Mandy at the End of the World” by Jose Padua

“Big Plans” by Shayne Langford

POETRY

“Angel’s Share,” “Mother of Muses,” “Do I really Have Nothing At All,” “Secondhand God” by MICHAEL CHANG

“Gal,” “Say What,” Communion” by Adele Elise Williams

“Elegy with Two Trees,” “On Eschatology,” “Lines for the Winter Solstice,” “Lines for the New Year (1)” by Christopher Merrill

“Homo Americanus,” “The Charm and the Dread,” “Betimes” by Rodrigo Toscano

“sometimes, the night,” “No Elegy for the Magic,” “Now That I Know What I Had, I Know,” “Sestina for Suzanne Lummis, Empress of Noir,” On Creating a New Form (Maybe), by Lynne Thompson

“Cold Water,” “Forbidden Peak,” “After the Funeral,” “The Farmhouse” by E.J. Koh

“Driven Nail Cure” by Emma Aylor

“My Father Wes a Firm Believer,” “Listening Wind” by Jim Natal

CONVERSATIONS

The Voice of a Man Who Doesn’t Know How to Write: a Conversation with Stênio Gardel by David Martinez

The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation Distinguished Speakers Series Presents An Evening with Natasha Trethewey: Natasha Trethewey Interviewed by Danzy Senna

PORTFOLIO

“Give Me Shelter” by Wendy Murray

MULTIMEDIA

“7-10-22” by Anne Germanacos

Diary

“On Being and On Being the Right Size”

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