CONTENTS
Letter from the Editor
Gabriel Blackwell
The 100th Anniversary of The Waste Land
Greg Gerke
fiction
The Wave Pool
Malinda McCollum
fiction
Hermeticum 9 (The Cosmos as It Grinds Away)
Benjamin Paloff
poetry
Weavers
Karl Taro Greenfeld
fiction
Q Is for Quadruped
F Is for Funk Island
William Woolfitt
essay
I have tried to love dailiness,
Self-Portrait with Whip and Book
First Pictures
Jane Zwart
poetry
Tarzan Bikini
Sarah Anne Strickley
fiction
Spotted Lanternflies
Shevaun Brannigan
poetry
Rein
Glen Pourciau
fiction
Only tonight
My little god
Aleš Šteger
translated by Brian Henry
poetry
A Mushroom Now and Then Pushing Through the Needles
Taking One Spoon of Earth
Wispy and Withstanding Storms
Christopher Citro and Dustin Nightingale
poetry
Iris and Alici
Lisa Fishman
fiction
You were leaving
applying lotion before sleep
Dani Oliver
poetry
The Plough and the Alfalfa: Reflections on rural idyll on contemplating Gauguin’s Les Meules, Courtauld Gallery, London
Patricia Newbery
essay
REVIEWS
The Betweens by Cynthia Arrieu-King
reviewed by Shannon Wolf
Late Human by Jean Day
reviewed by Sarah D’Stair
A Shock by Keith Ridgway
reviewed by Travis McDonald
Ivory Shoals by John Brandon
reviewed by Philip Probasco
Variations on the Body by María Ospina, translated by Heather Cleary
Out of the Cage by Fernanda García Lao, translated by Will Vanderhyden
reviewed by Sarah McEachern