ISSUE FIFTEEN
Poetry
The Dead by Kathleen Wedl
Poem at Max Volume by Adam Gianforcaro
Poem for the Self I Was Before the Hysterectomy by Emma Bolden
Last Night by Jessica Bates
Dead Letters by Jane Zwart
The Lumberjack by John Michael Trent
Sonnet for Margot with Three Vulvas, Two Penises, and a Merry-Go-Round by Laura Candler
Malignant by Elaina Edwards
Fault Lines by Ashish Kumar Singh
TOURNIQUET by Ashley Hajimirsadeghi
Kutya by Chiara Di Lello
My mother is a quetzal bird. by Kryston Lopez
Speaking Plainly by Ellen Zhang
A Red Painted Poppy by Jackie Sizemore
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Editor-in-Chief Tyler Pufpaff
Managing Editor Barbara Lock
Associate Managing Editors, Prose Tessa Rossi / Colleen Flaherty
Associate Managing Editor, Poetry Megan Nichols
Acquisition Editors Taylor Byas / Adrian Dallas Frandle
Poetry Editors Erica Abbott / K.M. Crane / Rachael Crosbie / Keana Moreau / Gerardo Gonzalez / Kuhu Joshi / Greer McAllister / José Felipe Ozuna / Jessica Nirvana Ram / Kevin Risner / Lindsey Schaffer / Melissa Strilecki
Fiction Editors Lisa Croce / Dink Dinkins / Katherine Dye / Jeanne-Marie Fleming / Brandi Handley /Ashley Kim / Genevieve Mills
Nonfiction Editors Camille U. Adams / Victoria Buitron / Sarah Catherine Golden / Arden Stockdell-Giesler / Ruby Djuna Haack / Tori Walters
Visual Art Editor Kalyn RoseAnne Livernois / Charlie Madison Taylor
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