Sorry about the crack in the wall of the kitchen,
said the formal women at the closing, signing over
their cared-for Foursquare
Poetry
Suspended in Middle Distance: On Arda Collins’ Star Lake
by Emma Daley
Collins’ spatial poems knit together the natural world––trees, light, stones––with her specific history of violence, loss, and survival.
Six Poems by Anna Matysiak
from Inbred Machines: (The Difference and the Repetition), translated from the Polish by Peter Burzyński
the queen wasp / opens her first pair of arms. / she convulses in the right chamber like / how nails sanctify a board.
We Are History: Ardor and Visibility in Robin Gow’s A Million Quiet Revolutions
by Katherine Fallon
Written in verse, A Million Quiet Revolutions queers both the novel and young adult genre by using altered form and subversive subject matter to break expected literary boundaries.
Nighttime, Gay Bar on 14th & P
by Jay White
I order vodka and seltzer and check my coat. // I look up and meet a pair of eyes; he must know I’m lost. Dizzy.
Fern
by Eli Slover
In the terracotta urn,
you have severed
yourself,
We Will Survive
by Rolla Barraq, translated from the Arabic by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp
Death was passing through the pores of waiting / like fresh messages from the sky
Barbara Schwartz & Krista J.H. Leahy’s Nothing but Light
by Emilee Kinney
Barbara Schwartz and Krista J.H. Leahy’s collaborative collection Nothing But Light is a spiritual journey that merges the female body with divinity.
Canis latrans
by Barbara Duffey
But if // you leave it be, refuse to name it, yellow / eyes dance in the jar of the night like stars.
When All Your Seeds Fail
by Amanda Roth
Try compost – scraps / piled into a heap. The forgotten things / are begging for another life. Let’s say you could / get the dirt to sing.
