October 2020

Cover Artist: Edra Soto

the poem as the champagne
of what the body has bottled
in its strain.
Ed Roberson

Poem

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
- Lockdown Garden
Chester Wilson III
- The Oracle Was Stoned
Maya C. Popa
- Dear Life
Cathy Song
- In the Clouds, Volcano
- The Blue-Painted Distance
M. Alexander Turner
- Dictionary (As the Map of Obstacle)
Katie Hartsock
- Breast Milk
Orlando Ricardo Menes
- Hear Me, Hart Crane
Christine Gosnay
- Apology
Jose Hernandez Diaz
- Tecolote
- Pan Dulce
Martin Dyar
- Burke’s Goddess
Tianru Wang
- Sound Play
- After “Yellow Crane Tower”
Nikki Wallschlaeger
- Cloud of Feelings
- Rogue Corn
Ingrid Wendt
- Pot of Gold
Mairead Small Staid
- In Defense of a Long Engagement
Tom Pickard
- Yem
Nathan Spoon
- Abraham Lake
- Be Monster
Geraldine Clarkson
- éclat & cast lots
Adrienne Su
- On the Recommendation That American Adults Consume No More Than One-Quarter Cup of Rice, Twice a Week
- Savory Versus Sweet
Maurya Simon
- Omnicide
John Burnside
- The Old Masters
Jennifer Jean
- The Doors of Perception
Drew Milne
- Green Shield
John Lee Clark
- A Funeral
- The Mansion
Dorothy Chan
- Ode to Chinese Superstitions, Haircuts, and Being a Girl
Jennifer Martelli
- Moon Jellyfish
Ed Roberson
- Der Daily Yoke
- Choke
- For Air
- Summer’s Song
- Noise Complaint
- Another Shooting
- The Pretty Papers Section
- Poems, Sunrises, and Precedents
- Party Sonnets