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ART
Cover Scorched Souls [mixed medium] • Gary Kelley
13 The Players [graphite with digital color] • Erika Steiskal
17 Between you and me [charcoal and photographs] • Anthony Tremmaglia
22 Maws [ink wash on hot press watercolor paper, digital editing] • Makaylah Fazzari
25 Kitchen [digital] • Jeannie Phan
32 Etherea [digital] • Vlad Alvarez
38 Human Work [digital] • Christian Blaza
FICTION
13 The Players • Lauren Marie Schmidt
17 Mary and the Machine • Sommer Schafer
22 Election Return • Phillip Gardner
25 Horseradish • Marcia Cebluska
32 The Woman Next Door • Jennifer Farwell Cohen
38 Human Work • Nick Roos
NONFICTION
41 H(a)unted • Katie F-S
44 The Mural • John Louis Smith
POETRY
3 To the Butcher's Son • Karen Harryman
4 Plague • Greg Larson
4 Aspic Lipstick Fabric Distinct Prayer • Natasha Dennerstein
5 Huanglong • Robert Kohen
5 Way Out West • Sascha Feinstein
6 Holed Up • Robert Kohen
6 The Committee Speaks of Language • Lauire Lamon
6 An Open Call to Single-Daughters of Single Mothers • Katie Pryor
7 Not a Beautiful Poem • Erica Miriam Fabri
8 Solitude • Denise Lichtig
8 The Hunter to His Son • Tobias Wray
8 Hypnagogia • Jacqueline Winter Thomas
9 The Children We Didn't Have • Maja Zmyslowski
9 The Funeral State • Bettina de Léon
10 Horoscope for the Month of Wet Feet in Autumn • Sage
10 The Poet's House • Robin Chapman
10 Dead Popple with Crow • Elizabeth Diebold
11 At the Edge of the Meadow • Jonathan Andersen
11 To My Nine Estranged Cousins in Hemisphere • Gabriela Garcia
11 The Christmas Story • Robin Schectman Richstone
12 Mother, Poco Moto • Peter Schireson
12 Do You Ever Write Translations • Amanda Gomez
16 Reunion • Ashley Davidson
21 On a Foreign Planet Surrounded by Sugar Maples • Christopher Citro
24 Bats and Applesauce • Christopher Citro
24 The procedures above are the only procedures • Anthony Warnke
24 Psycho Killer Clown Noir • Stephen Gibson
29 Fear of Horses • Hannah Louise Poston
29 Southside • Annie Woodford
29 Tryst with a Former Self • Michael Montlack
30 Sonnet for my Comrade in Room 11 of the Whitman Motor Lodge • Martín Espada
31 The Rain that Holds Light in the Trees • Todd Davis
31 Marriage Poem • Noah Davis
36 Lightnin' Hopkins Returns as a Bluetick Hound • Noah Davis
37 Wishbone • Mark Rubin
40 Night • Randall Watson
Marriage Tanka • Nicole Cooley
REVIEWS
45 Synechoche: Brief Book Reviews • Rachel Morgan
46 Crosscuts: Brief DVD Reviews • Grant Tracey
MISCELLANY
2 From the Editors
47 Contributors