Volume XLIV 1&2
Fiction
Laurie Blauner, “Are You Still There”
Daniel Cohen, “Yarn”
Gwen E. Kirby, “Wanda Wished”
Jennifer Pullen, “Faery Fruit: The Life of Christina Rossetti in Portraits both Real and Imagined”
Adam Kohut, “PROXY”
Kenton K. Yee, “Wormholing”
R. M. Cooper, “Difficult Conversations”
Schuyler Mitchell, “The Buffalo”
Mialise Carney, “The Leftover Girls”
Talitha Greaver, “The Waiting Woman”
William Woolfitt, “House Wrens”
Erik Moyer, “Bear in Mind”
Zachary Tyler Vickers, “The Ilk of Their Shrewdness”
Alexandra Wingo, “Angels in the Mississippi”
Thea Swanson, “Running Women”
Creative Nonfiction
Alexandra Teague, “The Archaic Torso of My Late 40s”
Meg Thompson, “Journal of Pain”
Emily Holmes, “A Case for Looking Directly into the Light”
Poems
Janet McNally, “Cartoon Universe”
Jenny Molberg, “Elaine by the Sea”
Monica Fields , “Rhode Island Swans”
David Thacker, “On contemplating how growing zones will shift with the climate”
Ayesha Raees, “Anaphora for”
Gaylord Brewer, “[What if I prefer, Mary, to no longer live in the world?]”
Benjamin S. Grossberg, Two Poems
Lex Orgera, “Treatments for Women”
Alyse Bensel, Two Poems
Yetta Rose Stein, “Letter Regarding My Apocalypse”
Charles Fort, “The Artist, Wilde, Forgot the Living Things”
Michael Derrick Hudson, “The Archaeologist Explains Things to the Mummy of Seti II”
Lillian Emerick Valentine, “Paraglossum”
Katy E. Ellis, “Cavities at the End of the Earth”
John A. Nieves, Two Poems
Scott Frey, “Subduction”
Jacob Sunderlin, “Amendment to the Pledge I Signed Promising to Not Promote Radical Theories about the Overthrow of the State While Teaching for the State”
Darla Himeles, “Jack”
Jason Tandon, “Reading the New Charles Simic Book I Was Saving for Vacation”
Daniel DeVaughn, “Orientation at the Alabama Department of Youth Services, Vacca Campus”
David Moolten, “Subversive”
Gary Young, Two Poems
Mark MacAllister, “Exophony”
Judy Halebsky, “PROOF. n./pruf/“
E. B. Schnepp, “dishonest in its petals,”
Kayla Pearce, Two Poems
Charlie Peck, “Shucks Fish House & Oyster Bar”
Daniel Bourne, “On Learning the Old Language [in the Country of Illinois]”
Rachel Mallalieu, “Entropy”
Danielle Pieratti, “Introduction to Dante”
Translations
Liliana Ponce, Two Poems, translated from the Spanish by Michael Martin Shea
Translation Chapbooks
Henri Meschonnic, Sentences Prolonged Through Our Erasures, translated from the French by Gabrielle Bedetti and Don Boes and Introduced by Gabriella Bedetti
Pavle Goranović, A Town No One Has Managed to Leave, Translated from the Montenegrin by Will Firth and Introduced by Will Firth and Tijana Rakočević
The 2025 and 2026 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Awards
Cela Xiè, “莫生 Only Absence, No Time”
Josiah Roberts, “To Shoulder the Weight”
Sophie Nunberg, “This Is Just to Say I Have Recommended the Last Book You Were Saving”
Selene Hofstetter, “atáchuush | ocean coast”
Volume XLIII, No. 2
Fiction
Michael Garcia Bertrand, “The Fall of Virgilio”
Jonathan Johnson, “Chorus of the Cold Weather Body Farm”
Ryan Habermeyer, “Gutwise”
Mason Koa, “Dominion”
Jane Camoleze, “Lady Pig”
RJ Steele, “An Incident Requiring the Intervention of Verakov Capital Private Wealth Investment Firm’s Human Resources Department”
Poetry
Philip Pardi, “Only the Living Are Bewildered”
Clayton Adam Clark, “Before Me Is Always Fled”
Maya Jewell Zeller, “Hex as Fairy Tale”
Cora Clark, Two Poems
Cara Dees, Two Poems
Gabrielle Grace Hogan, Two Poems
Jason Fraley, Two Poems
Kristina Faust, Two Poems
Charity Ketz, Two Poems
JoAnne Tillemans, “Pheasants”
Sonja Vitow, “Sevenling (re: Mutualism)”
Kimberly Cloutier Green, Two Poems
Marjorie Saiser, “Jake Showed Up at His Sister’s Place”
Caleb Scott, “Beetle Song”
Ruth Dickey, “[I feel green space]”
Translation Chapbook
Juan Armando Rojas Joo, The Path That Carries Our Names
Translated from the Spanish and Introduced by Paula J. Lambert
What We’re Reading
Smothermoss by Alissa Alering, Reviewed by Matthew J. Kreglow
The Mirror of Simple Souls by Leah Flax Barber, Reviewed by Nathan Fako
Twist: Tales of a Queer Girlhood by Adele Bertei, Reviewed by Melayna Pongratz
Cheap Motels of My Youth by George Bilgere, Reviewed by Garret Miller
Leaving Biddle City by Marianne Chan, Reviewed by Nathan Fako
The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies by Maggie Cooper, Reviewed by Hannah Goss
Arrangement by Merridawn Duckler, Reviewed by Meg Spring
Where Babies Come From by Ori Fienberg, Reviewed by Mary Robles
Don’t Do It—We Love You, My Heart by Jonathan Fink, Reviewed by Jaden Gootjes
You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems by Rebecca Foust, Reviewed by Garret Miller
The Spring Before Obergefell by Ben Grossberg, Reviewed by Liz Barnett
Disapparitions by Joseph Harrington, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson
Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief by B.J. Hollars, Reviewed by Serenity Dieufaite
True Believer by Jeff Kass, Reviewed by Michelle Altstaetter
French Girl by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Reviewed by Amanda McGuire Rzicznek
The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That by Nick Lantz, Reviewed by Elly Luisa Salah
Ninetails: Nine Tales by Sally Wen Mao, Reviewed by Sydney Koeplin
Break Self: Feed by Gabrielle Myers, Reviewed by Anna Vaughn
Bingo Bango Boingo by Alan Michael Parker, Reviewed by Hannah Goss
Camera Lake by Alex Pickett, Reviewed by Liz Barnett
Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek, Reviewed by Jane Wageman
Kin: Practically True Stories by V Efua Prince, Reviewed by Carolyn Hogg
Good Dress by Brittney Rogers, Reviewed by Elly Luisa Salah
Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou, Reviewed by Sydney Koeplin
Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation by Sarah Yahm, Reviewed by Serenity Dieufaite
Volume XLIII, No. 1
Poetry
Mary Cisper, “Light”
Wendy Drexler, “Notes from Bar Harbor”
Robert Grunst, “Two Andalusian Dogs”
Ayesha Asad, “Second-Generation”
Molly Sutton Kiefer, “The Arrival of a New Glacial Period”
Janée J. Baugher, “Andrew Wyeth’s Footnotes to Baby Owl, 1944″
Alison Thumel, “Orchard”
Blaine Prescott, “Arc”
Teja Sudhakar, “on forgiving”
Cat S. Chen, “Red”
Elisa Karbin, “Nostrum Remedium”
Kate Genevieve, Two Poems
Fiction
Eric Scot Tryon, “When California Finally Breaks Off into the Pacific”
Cameron Vanderwerf, “Municipalities: Three Works”
Brianna Barnes, “The Unbearable”
Alex Capdeville, “Piggies”
Creative Nonfiction
Nicholas Dighiera, “The Book of Love”
Translation Chapbook
Dostena Anguelova, The Emptiness Where Everything Is Born
Translated from the Bulgarian and Introduced by Holly Karapetkova
The 2024 AWP Intro Journals Awards
Em Bober, “Messenger from the Sea God’s Palace”
Natalia Martinez, “El Luchador”
What We’re Reading
Midwestern Poet’s Incomplete Guide to Symbolism by Erica Anderson-Senter, Reviewed by Elly Luisa Salah
Cross-Stitch by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney, Reviewed by Jane Wageman
Skies of Blur by Elijah Burrell, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson
I’m Here: Alaska Stories by David Nikki Crouse, Reviewed by Haley Souders
Enough to Lose by RS Deeren, Reviewed by Ellie Timmins
Bad Mexican, Bad American by Jose Hernandez Diaz, Reviewed by Tyler Michael Jacobs
Dirty Suburbia by Sarah Hosey, Reviewed by Debrah Miszak
In the Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds by Anna Leigh Knowles, Reviewed by Meagan Chandler
The End of Everything and Everything That Comes After That by Nick Lantz, Reviewed by Ahmad Bilal
America Fantastica by Tim O’Brien, Reviewed by William Walton
The Ill-Fitting Skin by Shannon Robinson, Reviewed by Sarah Urbank
Intimacies in Borrowed Light by Darius Stewart, Reviewed by Muhammad Sheeraz Dasti
Lossless by Matthew Tierney, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson
The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi, Reviewed by Aishat Babatunde
Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales by Hannah Warren, Reviewed by Mary Robles
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