42.2 Table of Contents
Fiction
Colten Dom “The Retch”
Naomi Wood “Dino Moms”
Matthew Fiander “Controlled Burns”
Chad Fore “Small-Town Locals”
Toni Judnitch “Undertow”
Poetry
Christopher Citro “Sugar in the Gourd and the Gourd upon the Ground”
Shivani Mehta “Once, in the desert, I searched for manzanitas”
Jeannine Hall Gailey “Crows Splinter the Rain”
Susannah Lodge-Rigal “Drawing Your Hands from Memory”
Michelle Gomez “How to Navigate a Minefield”
Maryam Ghafoor “Islamic Herbology”
Patrick Dundon “Magnificent UFO”
Andrew Robin “Two Poems”
Ösel Jessica Plante “The Chronicle of Three Sisters”
Indrani Sengupta “Two Poems”
Tennessee Hill “Rabbit Test”
Adam Clay “Self-Portrait as Invasive Species”
Vanesha Pravin “Red-Winged Blackbird”
John McCarthy “Our Once Content Father Possesses Regrets for Planting Marigolds”
Christopher Warner “Two Poems”
Maria Himmelman “The Frogs”
Translation Chapbooks
Salgado Maranhão “The Rain That Sweetens the Name of Things”
Translated from the Portuguese and Introduced by Alexis Levitin
The 2023 AWP Intro Journal Awards
Angela Voras-Hills “Three Days after My Mom Starts Hospice, My Son Can’t Sleep”
Ciara Alfaro “Hair”
What We’re Reading
In The Shape of Things to Come by John Blair, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson
Lifeaholics Anonymous by Neil Carpathios, Reviewed by Lucas Dean Clark
The Devil’s Workshop by Xavier Cavazos, Reviewed by Mary Robles
until all you see is sky by George Choundas, Reviewed by Muhammad Sheeraz Dasti
Cravings by Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Reviewed by Debrah Miszak
The Amnesiac in the Maze by Michael Czyzniejewski, Reviewed by Dan Marcantuono
Green Burial by Derek Graf, Reviewed by Meagan Chandler
One Person Holds So Much Silence by David Greenspan, Reviewed by Elly Salah
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject by Jared Harél, Reviewed by Tyler Michael Jacobs
Homelight by Lola Haskins, Reviewed by Jeff Gundy
Do You Remember Being Born? by Sean Michaels, Reviewed by Jane Wageman
Dry Land by B. Pladek, Reviewed by Haley Souders
