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PUBLISHER/INTERIM EDITOR
Willard Cook

MANAGING EDITOR
Heather Gluck

PROSE EDITOR
Chris Leslie-Hynan

POETRY EDITOR
Ashna Ali

WEB EDITOR
Franchesca Viaud

FRESH VOICES FELLOW
sara mariah montijo

POETRY CONT.


Reginald Harris
Twists

Sophia Chong
Two Poems

Jon Sands
Trying to Explain Government to Frank

Becka McKay
Wolf Centos

Audre Rose
Variations on Origami

Cynthia Chen
Dad Used to Tell Me: If You Can See Something, They Can See You Too

Victoria Bracher
On Weight

Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
Two Poems

Sarah Carleton
Two Poems

A.M. Goodhart
Reconciliation with Body in the Street

Emily Light
Two Poems

Michelle Alexander
Our Rogue Swagger

POETRY


Kristin Lueke
Nectarine Season

Sandra Anfang
Two Poems

Bri Stokes
Two Poems

Derek Otsuji
Koi Nobori

Latif Askia Ba
Two Poems

Heidi VanderVelde
Alignment

Ceridwen Hall
Birthday Landscape with Deer and Scavengers

Rhoni Blankenhorn
Three Poems

Ray Levy Uyeda
Spring Diary

Brian Builta
A Violent Luck

V.A. Bettencourt
We Seem Like Misfits But

Charles Hensler
Trust Fall

Alyssa Statdlander
Three Poems

Costantino Toth
Two Poems

Hanna Webster
Call Me Beloved

Sara Femenella
Elegy for Evolution

Angela Patten
This

Judson Evans
My Heart Can’t Beat

Eneida Alcalde
Two Poems

Garth Pavell
Killer Commute

Roey Leonardi
Two Poems

Seth Peterson
Recording of a Mother’s Beating Heart

Charles Grosel
To Get Me Off the Roof

Leonardo Chung
Basilisk

Larry Eby
Funeral

FICTION


Hugo Gabriel Bennett
Forced

Marianne Villanueva
Night, Ocean

Michael Qualiano
Ungodly Faces

Patrick Strickland
The Han Gil Hotel

Erin Jourdan
Chimeras

Rebecca Paredes
Port Jackson

NONFICTION


Ruella Che

Nihao in Afrotopia

Emmeline Clein
Internet Angels

Gabe Montesanti
Pete’s Market

Kelly Magee
The Dark Season

IN TRANSLATION


Alejandro Crotto, trans. Josefina Massot
Simone Weil

Orna Coussin, trans. Jessica Cohen
How to Be a Girl

ART


Artwork by Gabe Montesanti