Issue 32, May 2023
Poems:
Zach Savich, “A Question of Months” and “Regarding the Feeling of ‘Having Come through Some Things’“
John Emil Vincent, “It’s good we’re characters in a highly implausible children’s book or we’d be goners”
Carolyn Oliver, “Annunciation” and “The Archaeoetymologist Recovers Bliss from the Riverbed”
Ernest Hilbert, “Fantasia on Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time” and “I CAN READ! LEVEL 1“
Farnoosh Fathi, “The Opies (Just Married),” “The Silhouettist” and “from ‘Twenty Collars‘”
Cyrus Cassells, “It’s Your Favorite Foreign Movie” and “Theater of Swans and Mysteries“
Joshua Marie Wilkinson, “Ghosts & Empty Sockets” and “Take No Care for Your Dignity“
John Hennessy, “Domestic Retrograde” and “Lisbon / Transient Global Amnesia“
Geoff Bouvier, “120,000 Years Ago: Music” and “42,000 Years Ago: Mathematics“
Brian Russell, “California,” “No Longer,” and “Wild Dogs Among the Ruins“
Max Heinegg, “God’s Plan” and “Dancing in the Gardens of Stone“
Chris Stroffolino, from “Marbles Falling Out of Maracas in Love“
Pablo Otavalo, “Leave a Light On” and “The Master Bedroom”
Benjamin Gantcher, “A Very High Fence” and “What’s Bad“
Wyn Cooper, “The Blue Skins of Balloons” and “Scarified“
Matthew Lippman, “Instagram” and “Sincerity is Scary“
Eileen G’Sell, “Nouvelles Années” and “Facts are Facts“
George Franklin, “The Protagonist” and “The Memoirist”
Jess Rizkallah, “sad girl saturn return” and “fire poem“
Christopher Munde, “Ambiguous Loss” and “Urbex“
Juan Pablo Mobili, “Abanderado” and “Casting“
JJ Starr, “13 Months” and “The Feeling Again”
Bruce Bond, “Lunette 17” and “Lunette 20“
Ximena Gómez, “Is That You, Father?“
Jefferson Navicky, “Practice Player“
Tiffany Troy, “Train” and “Plus Ultra”
Emily Tristan Jones, “Pantocrator“
Audrey Spuzzillo, “Rinse Away“
Angel James, “Uterus Revolt“
Annie Goold, “Synthetic Girl“
Michael Goodfellow, “Analog“
Fariha Tayyab, “The Naqba“
Interviews:
Tiffany Troy, “Over time, the most foreign of sounds can feel natural in the mouth: A Conversation with Valerie Hsiung about To Love an Artist“
Chris Stroffolino, “Intersections of Style and Intentionality: Retconning the Harsh Realm of the 1990s with Daniel Nester”
Visual art: Tamsyn Kuehnert
Matter 