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Volume XLIV 1&2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Fiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Nonfiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Alexandra Teague, “The Archaic Torso of My Late 40s”
Meg Thompson, “Journal of Pain”
Emily Holmes, “A Case for Looking Directly into the Light”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poem<\/strong>s<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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\/<\/em>“
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” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Liliana Ponce, Two Poems, translated from the Spanish by Michael Martin Shea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translation Chapbooks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Henri Meschonnic, Sentences Prolonged Through Our Erasures<\/em>, translated from the French by Gabrielle Bedetti and Don Boes and Introduced by Gabriella Bedetti<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pavle Goranovi\u0107, A Town No One Has Managed to Leave<\/em>, Translated from the Montenegrin by Will Firth and Introduced by Will Firth and Tijana Rako\u010devi\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2025 and 2026 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cela Xi\u00e8, “\u83ab\u751f 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, “at\u00e1chuush | ocean coast”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume XLIII, No. 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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\"Art<\/a>
Art by Sheila Squillante<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Fiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Michael Garcia Bertrand, \u201cThe Fall of Virgilio\u201d
Jonathan Johnson, \u201cChorus of the Cold Weather Body Farm\u201d
Ryan Habermeyer, \u201cGutwise\u201d
Mason Koa, \u201cDominion\u201d
Jane Camoleze, \u201cLady Pig\u201d
RJ Steele, \u201cAn Incident Requiring the Intervention of Verakov Capital Private Wealth Investment Firm\u2019s Human Resources Department\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Philip Pardi, \u201cOnly the Living Are Bewildered\u201d
Clayton Adam Clark, \u201cBefore Me Is Always Fled\u201d
Maya Jewell Zeller, \u201cHex as Fairy Tale\u201d
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, \u201cPheasants\u201d
Sonja Vitow, \u201cSevenling (re: Mutualism)\u201d
Kimberly Cloutier Green, Two Poems
Marjorie Saiser, \u201cJake Showed Up at His Sister\u2019s Place\u201d
Caleb Scott, \u201cBeetle Song\u201d
Ruth Dickey, \u201c[I feel green space]\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translation Chapbook<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Juan Armando Rojas Joo, The Path That Carries Our Names
Translated from the Spanish and Introduced by Paula J. Lambert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What We\u2019re Reading<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Smothermoss<\/em> by Alissa Alering, Reviewed by Matthew J. Kreglow
The Mirror of Simple Souls<\/em> by Leah Flax Barber, Reviewed by Nathan Fako
Twist: Tales of a Queer Girlhood<\/em> by Adele Bertei, Reviewed by Melayna Pongratz
Cheap Motels of My Youth<\/em> by George Bilgere, Reviewed by Garret Miller
Leaving Biddle City<\/em> by Marianne Chan, Reviewed by Nathan Fako
The Theme Park of Women\u2019s Bodies<\/em> by Maggie Cooper, Reviewed by Hannah Goss
Arrangement<\/em> by Merridawn Duckler, Reviewed by Meg Spring
Where Babies Come From <\/em>by Ori Fienberg, Reviewed by Mary Robles
Don\u2019t Do It\u2014We Love You, My Heart<\/em> by Jonathan Fink, Reviewed by Jaden Gootjes
You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems<\/em> by Rebecca Foust, Reviewed by Garret Miller
The Spring Before Obergefell<\/em> by Ben Grossberg, Reviewed by Liz Barnett
Disapparitions<\/em> by Joseph Harrington, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson
Year of Plenty: A Family\u2019s Season of Grief<\/em> by B.J. Hollars, Reviewed by Serenity Dieufaite
True Believer<\/em> by Jeff Kass, Reviewed by Michelle Altstaetter
French Girl<\/em> by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Reviewed by Amanda McGuire Rzicznek
The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That<\/em> by Nick Lantz, Reviewed by Elly Luisa Salah
Ninetails: Nine Tales<\/em> by Sally Wen Mao, Reviewed by Sydney Koeplin
Break Self: Feed<\/em> by Gabrielle Myers, Reviewed by Anna Vaughn
Bingo Bango Boingo<\/em> by Alan Michael Parker, Reviewed by Hannah Goss
Camera Lake<\/em> by Alex Pickett, Reviewed by Liz Barnett
Bitter Water Opera<\/em> by Nicolette Polek, Reviewed by Jane Wageman
Kin: Practically True Stories<\/em> by V Efua Prince, Reviewed by Carolyn Hogg
Good Dress<\/em> by Brittney Rogers, Reviewed by Elly Luisa Salah
Sour Cherry<\/em> by Natalia Theodoridou, Reviewed by Sydney Koeplin
Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation<\/em> by Sarah Yahm, Reviewed by Serenity Dieufaite
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Volume XLIII, No. 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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\"MAR<\/a>
Art by Sheila Squillante<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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”
Jan\u00e9e J. Baugher, “Andrew Wyeth’s Footnotes to Baby Owl<\/em>, 1944″
Alison Thumel, “Orchard”
Blaine Prescott, “Arc”
Teja Sudhakar, “on forgiving”
Cat S. Chen, “Red”
Elisa Karbin, “Nostrum Remedium”
Kate Genevieve, Two Poems<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Eric Scot Tryon, “When California Finally Breaks Off into the Pacific”
Cameron Vanderwerf, “Municipalities: Three Works”
Brianna Barnes, “The Unbearable”
Alex Capdeville, “Piggies”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Nonfiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nicholas Dighiera, “The Book of Love”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translation Chapbook<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dostena Anguelova, The Emptiness Where Everything Is Born
Translated from the Bulgarian and Introduced by Holly Karapetkova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2024 AWP Intro Journals Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Em Bober, “Messenger from the Sea God’s Palace”
Natalia Martinez, “El Luchador”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What We’re Reading<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Midwestern Poet\u2019s Incomplete Guide to Symbolism<\/em> by Erica Anderson-Senter, Reviewed by Elly Luisa Salah
Cross-Stitch<\/em> by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney, Reviewed by Jane Wageman
Skies of Blur<\/em> by Elijah Burrell, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson
I’m Here: Alaska Stories<\/em> by David Nikki Crouse, Reviewed by Haley Souders
Enough to Lose<\/em> by RS Deeren, Reviewed by Ellie Timmins
Bad Mexican, Bad American<\/em> by Jose Hernandez Diaz, Reviewed by Tyler Michael Jacobs
Dirty Suburbia<\/em> by Sarah Hosey, Reviewed by Debrah Miszak
In the Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds <\/em>by Anna Leigh Knowles, Reviewed by Meagan Chandler
The End of Everything and Everything That Comes After That<\/em> by Nick Lantz, Reviewed by Ahmad Bilal
America Fantastica<\/em> by Tim O’Brien, Reviewed by William Walton
The Ill-Fitting Skin<\/em> by Shannon Robinson, Reviewed by Sarah Urbank
Intimacies in Borrowed Light<\/em> by Darius Stewart, Reviewed by Muhammad Sheeraz Dasti
Lossless<\/em> by Matthew Tierney, Reviewed by Caleb Edmondson
The Refugee Ocean<\/em> by Pauls Toutonghi, Reviewed by Aishat Babatunde
Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales<\/em> by Hannah Warren, Reviewed by Mary Robles<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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