Cover Art: Take a Hike, by Michael Alvarez (2014); oil, spray paint, and pencil on panel; 80” x 97”
Fiction Selections by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- Introduction by Guest Editor Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- Kristina Kay Robinson
Dantòr - Emilie Staat Strong
His Neighbor’s Yard - Ran Walker
The Tunnel of Love
Document(s)
- Introduction by Laura Villareal
- Aremu Adebisi
“ṢẸ́RẸ́: An Ode to Women - Ariana Benson
To Our United States
tree n. [English] - Adrian Ernesto Cepeda
Mi Mami Talks to Her Plantas - Jason B. Crawford
The Art of Staying Alive - Malcolm Friend
Ode to Paper Transfers - Joshua Garcia
Faggot - Bri Little
For every tweet that reads “Black women will save America” - Lucia LoTempio
Iconographic - Mark Maza
Kundiman for Tondo: 1986 - Liam O’Brien
Wrung Out of Sweet Trouble
Found Stories - Cynthia Parker-Ohene
Grrrl Black in Kilmarnock - Erin Slaughter
Try Telling Yourself You Are Not Accountable to that Great Moth Time - Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Thesaurus of Beauty with Ghost - Lisa Summe
My grandfather dies of covid hours after I put my cat down - Lucy Zhang
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Protactile Poetry
- Introduction by Translator/Editor John Lee Clarke
- Patrick Graybill
Memories - Oscar Chacon
The Lumberjack Story - Rhonda Voight-Campbell
Solace
Poetry
- Christopher Citro
If Alone Has a Flavor
Quartered Suns
That’s Me When That’s You - Megan Neville
Elegy with Apologies to Leon Jakobovits James
The Back of the Book
- BOOK REVIEW
Spectral Feelings: Scope and Scale in Three New Books
on Kimiko Hahn, Jennifer Habel, and Rick Barot
By Corey Van Landingham - BOOK REVIEW
What Breaks Through: Four Collections on Awe
on Sarah Wolfson, Rage Hezekiah, Felicia Zamora, and Christopher Kondrich
By Leslie Sainz - BOOK REVIEW
American Elegies
on Robert Hass, Maya C. Popa, Carolyn Forché, and Reginald Dwayne Betts
By Christian Detisch
Features
- Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Fiction Selections
- Document(s), edited by Laura Villareal
- Protactile Poetry, translated/edited by John Lee Clarke