October 2023
Cover artist: Carlo CadenasBy nature, we poets tend many unquenchable flames.Kiki Petrosino
- Patricia Spears Jones
- CooXooEii Black
- Kimiko Hahn
- Ray González
- Paul Guest
From this Issue
Poem
By Jenny Browne
but you can’t keep everything.
You can only enter the sleepless
rooms repeating, more slowly...
Poem
By Richard Siken
I crawled to the front door and swung it open so the ambulance could find me. It seemed like a strange thing to do, since I hadn’t called for an ambulance, so I crawled to the end of the sidewalk and sat there, which still didn’t make sense. All the condos look the same, so it was going to be difficult to find me if the door wasn...
Table of Contents
Poems
- Adrian Matejka
- Jenny Browne
- Richard Siken
- Gabriel Ramirez
- Shira Erlichman
- Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
- CooXooEii Black
- Natalie Shapero
- Ray González
- Oliver Baez Bendorf
- Erin Marie Lynch
- Tianna Bratcher
- Paul Guest
- Kyle Okeke
- Paul Celan
- Dean Rader
- Ishion Hutchinson
- Patricia Spears Jones
- Stacie Cassarino
- Jordan Pérez
HARD FEELINGS
- Richard Siken
- Kate Durbin
- Kiki Petrosino
RUTH LILLY POETRY PRIZE
- Nicole Sealey
- Kimiko Hahn
NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER
CONTRIBUTORS
- Oliver Baez Bendorf
- CooXooEii Black
- Tianna Bratcher
- Jenny Browne
- Stacie Cassarino
- Paul Celan
- Kate Durbin
- Shira Erlichman
- Ray González
- Paul Guest
- Kimiko Hahn
- Ishion Hutchinson
- Patricia Spears Jones
- Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
- Erin Marie Lynch
- Adrian Matejka
- Kyle Okeke
- Kiki Petrosino
- Jordan Pérez
- Dean Rader
- Gabriel Ramirez
- Nicole Sealey
- Natalie Shapero
- Richard Siken