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Spring 2021 Number 48


Cover: a slain bird hanging in front of a window with a view of the galaxy. The moon sits on the windowsill.Featured Poet

David Kirby

Winner of the Collins Prize

John Hodgen

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Contents

  • Featured Poet
  • Poems
    • Angela Ball
      • Cousins
    • Paul Bone
      • Eulogy on the Body
    • Christopher Buckley
      • Sky Grammar
    • Shonté Daniels
    • Samantha Leigh Futhey
      • Eggs
      • Portrait of Brother as a Tractor at the Equipment Sale
    • Ceci Greubel
      • Americana
    • Derrick Harriell
    • Katie Hartsock
      • Wolf Trees
      • Wolf Tree Beneath the Gown
      • Lying In
      • Where the Wolf Tree Nurses
      • The Wolf Tree in Film
    • Robert W. Hill
      • Blowing the November Leaves
    • John Hodgen
      • Leap
      • Plague
    • Eric Janken
      • I’ve Read that Lionesses after Miscarriages Occasionally Attempt to Suckle Cornered Prey
    • Shelby Knauss
    • Daniel Lassell
      • Evolution Chart
      • Breakage
      • Inadequate Prayers
    • Hailey Leithauser
      • Late Night Poem
      • Amuse-Bouche
      • Triolet with Burlap Sack
    • Dora Malech
      • From the Dance
      • verum factum
    • Barry Marks
      • My Father Should Die in Winter
    • Corey Marks
      • The Horse-Headed Boy
      • Chernobyl Fox Makes and Eats Six-Layer Sandwich
      • Elegy for a Satellite
      • The Freighters
      • Drift
    • Forester McClatchey
      • Stanzas for Dwoskin
    • Michael McFee
      • A Rusty
    • Owen McLeod
      • Bushkill Creek
      • Cornfield Sutra
    • Matt W. Miller
      • Ars Poetica
    • David Moolten
      • “Annie, Annie Are You Okay?”
    • Mary Moore
    • Mark Neely
      • Ode with Motorcade and Labyrinth
    • Dan O’Brien
      • from Survivor’s Notebook
    • Ricardo Pau-Llosa
      • Soon
      • Hiroshige, Okabe
      • Blanket Warmer
      • Katsushika Ōi, Night Scene in the Yoshiwara, 1850
      • Office
    • Paulann Petersen
    • Katie Peterson
      • Yesterday, Here
      • The Lucky Ones
    • John Poch
      • Ischia
    • Deborah Pope
      • Sometimes a Voice
    • Barbara Ras
      • Castelluccio
    • Joshua Robbins
      • Held Up
      • Rope Swing
    • Alexis Sears
      • How to Forget That Night
    • Heather Sellers
      • Longing, Wading
      • Roe
    • Ayesha Shibli
      • The Word You’re Looking For
    • Ralph Sneeden
      • Two of My Favorite Guitarists Named Their Dogs Django
      • Orient Point
    • A. E. Stallings
    • Beth Suter
      • The Narrator
    • Cheyenne Taylor
    • Richard Tillinghast
      • Trotline
    • Seth Brady Tucker
    • Julia Wendell
      • A Bad Month for Optimists
    • Jim Whiteside
      • In the Gothic District
    • Chelsea Simon Woodard
      • Double Portrait: Migraine
    • David Yezzi
      • Ex Machina
      • What’s Changed