CONTENTS
Letter from Special Guest Poetry Editor Leslie Contreras Schwartz
In My Own State
Northern Cardinal
Analog
Monica Rico
poetry
Gatha for Forest Walk / When No Father Arrives
Desert / Nine Days
Park
Ching-In Chen
poetry
the imposition of a binary system on a body
or
256 “genderless” folds, an iteration process of halving brown paper shipping filler
Cassie Mira
poetry
Physical Space of Bodies of Color Cuerpos de Color
Erick Zambrano's Sculptural Composition of Gendered Visceral and Cerebral Abstraction
Consciousness y la mestiza
Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
poetry
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JD Pluecker
poetry
Weren’t We Natural Swimmers
Even If Our Life Was Spent Studying Other Human Medicine
Where the Unwanted Is Removed or Purified
Aliah Lavonne Tigh
poetry
Me, Myself, and I
Ravi Mangla
essay
The Hotel
James Tadd Adcox
fiction
Picnic
Weeding
Colleen Hollister
fiction
Caprices
Grey Wolfe LaJoie
fiction
The Infinity Bike Race
Paul Albano
fiction
It’s the End of the World and the Robots Are Winning
Christine Ma-Kellams
fiction
A Quickening
Laura Krughoff
fiction
Last Days
Matthew Vollmer
essay
REVIEWS
Stay Safe by Emma Hine
reviewed by Sarah D’Stair
An Inventory of Abandoned Things by Kelly Ann Jacobson
reviewed by Michael Lang
Reel Bay by Jana Larson
reviewed by Travis McDonald
If This Is the Age We End Discovery by Rosebud Ben-Oni
reviewed by KT Herr
The Part That Burns by Jeannine Ouellette
reviewed by Samantha Paige Rosen