December 2018
Letter from the Editor
Gabriel Blackwell
FICTION
Glyph Atlas
Blake Butler
Some Planetary Remains
Susan Daitch
Klaus Weber, Curb House Numberer
Janet Vachon's Glider
Juan Reyes, Lineman
Gloria Gleason's Crocheted Pennants
Michael Martone
The Leper
Brandon Hobson
You Know I'm Such a Fool for You
Caren Beilin
The Man Who Dropped a Baby
Marream Krollos
Lake Rose
Janalyn Guo
Notes of a Journey to the Outerland
Ryan Call
The Directions
Tim Horvath
You Won't Believe What Really Happened to the Sabine Women
Amber Sparks
Anthem
Jessica Lee Richarson
Carol Krusen Helps a Friend
Teresa Carmody
The Eighteen Possible Plots
A. Joachim Glage
Debut
Greg Gerke
The Species, Broadly
Tyler Barton
POETRY
First Death
Denise Duhamel
First Subtraction: Seems and all its homophones
Ander Monson
saw a video of a gang of bees swarming a hornet that killed their bee-homie so i called to say i love you
shout out to my niggas in Mexico
Danez Smith
Antizionist Abecedarian
sam sax
Coordinates to a Field in My Therapist's Notes
an object the girl an object
Leslie Contreras Schwartz
The Maps Move
Rush Hour Sluice
John A. Nieves
NONFICTION
Coat Hooks
Angela Woodward
Crown: A Family History
Brittany Perham
100 Lies About Me
Erik Anderson
Dear Editor Who Wished Me Luck Placing My Poems Elsewhere
Sean Thomas Dougherty
BOOK REVIEWS
Today Is the Day That Will Matter by Debra Di Blasi
reviewed by Charles Holdefer
Blood in the Asphalt by Jesse Sensibar
reviewed by Emily Hoover
The Northway by Lisa Bellamy
reviewed by Jeri Theriault
Not Elegy, But Eros by Nausheen Eusuf
reviewed by Norene Cashen
Freak Kingdom by Timothy Denevi
reviewed by Rajpreet Heir