ISSUE EIGHT
Fame and Obscurity

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POETRY

EMILY PETTIT
Alice Aster Approaches
Built Slowly

JENNIFER HASEGAWA
Drippy Leg Mystery Solved

LAUREN SHAPIRO
The Memory

MICHAEL TEIG
At this point my confusion

MAIA SIEGEL
Natasha and Fred
The Kroger Car-Loading Service

MEGAN J. ARLETT
The Fifth Marquess of Anglesey

ELIZABETH HUGHEY
The Matinee
Misty

JACOB MONTGOMERY
Astronomy
Self-Portrait (Me)

ONI BUCHANAN
Just the Other Day
Above This Top-Down Labyrinth

KATHLEEN OSSIP
Bluebird
Stones

ANNE MARIE ROONEY
I was sorrow
Death Party

JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ
The Centaur
The Human Puzzle

jayy dodd
Unlucky Duplex (Slick Mouth)
Every Morning I Have to Make Sure This
Is When I’m From

TROY JOLLIMORE
That Life

KIRSTEN ABEL
The Middle of Your Life

BRENT ARMENDINGER
Saints

CATHERINE PIERCE
Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals
Fable for the Final Days

STEPHANIE HORVATH
Sirens

ROB SCHLEGEL
The Maelstrom
Before the Goddess of Just and Equal
Boundaries

ELLEN MCGRATH SMITH
Pledge

SONG LIN
Remembering Another Journey on the
La Plata River Ferry

(translated by Dong Li)

JARED HARÉL
The Other Side of Desire

ED SKOOG
Morning
Kaw, a River

AMANDA AUERBACH
Plucked Petals
Eyeshadow Petals

IZZY CASEY
I’m Piss Witch

CHRISTOPHER KONDRICH
Resignation Syndrome

JENNY BROWNE
Holy Kamikaze Jackrabbits

TR BRADY
Interlude:
Would you rather

EMILY BROWN
Well I’m Still in My Body

VALERIE HSIUNG
Don’t tell me

ROCHELLE HURT
My Apologies
A Prayer for Containment
Thigh High

CANESE JARBOE
We Only Speak Through Walkie-Talkies with Impossible Range

KIRSTEN KASCHOCK
No Michelangelo

LEORA FRIDMAN
I Hate It

ERIKA MEITNER
This Volatile Taxonomy

SIMONE MUENCH and
JACKIE K. WHITE
Pall 

RYO YAMAGUCHI
Saturation #1
Saturation #2
Saturation #3

ELIZABETH WILLIS
My Love Is a Mirror Neuron
What Else in Art Do You Pay For

MELISSA DICKEY
from Plant in Relation to the Spring
[Once church fair music]
[Steam rises outside the window]

ROBERT FERNANDEZ
Arthur Rimbaud

MIGUEL MURPHY
Shakespeare

DAVID LEHMAN
Variations on a Theme
Derby Day

DAVID KIRBY
The 1909 Air Show at Brescia
Don’t Look

ANNIE KANTAR
Diagonal Winds

BARBARA TRAN
Resilient in Rain

JARED STANLEY
Appetite and Forgetting

ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY
Ricardo Flores Magón (1874–1922)
George S. Patton (1885–1945)

JORDAN STEMPLEMAN
No Such Elsewhere

B.J. BEST
from Ornithoncology
[Shake it off, I say to myself after falling]
[Daylight is not a democracy, I tell you]

EMMA BOLDEN
When You’re a Star, They Let You Do It

PATRICK MORRISSEY
Inaugural

DAN ROSENBERG
No Radio No Beloved No

RICHARD JONES
The Blizzard
How It Will End

DANIEL NESTER
The Failed Saratoga Colonic Fable

SEAN SINGER
Two Waves, Brightly Lit
Layers

ELIZABETH LINDSEY ROGERS
Gravida

MOLLY KUGEL
Bluebell, Harebell, Witch's Thimble

KELLY HOFFER
age of decadence//sericulture//
summoning spell

THEODORE WOROZBYT
Subscribed
The End

FICTION

NICHOLAS DELBANCO               
Suite

CYNTHIA CRUZ
Steady Diet of Nothing

STUART NADLER                        
Fania 

MARCOS GIRALT TORRENTE            
Shedding Skin
(translated by Thomas Bunstead)         

SIAMAK VOSSOUGHI                   
A Sportswriter

LUCY CORIN                             
Redact

DAVID CROUSE                         
Equipment for Lovers

PETE SEGALL                            
Three Moments from My Voyage

NICOLE HAROUTUNIAN              
After America

BONNIE CHAU                         
Chinese Box

NONFICTION

ELISA ALBERT                           
Early Autobiography via Proximity to
Fame, or When People Ask What It Was
Like Growing Up in L.A.

KELLE GROOM                     
When I’m Dead I’ll Learn to Travel

KIRSTEN KASCHOCK                  
The Urgency of Being

ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS              
Walks with Auster
(translated by Mara Faye Lethem)        

CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER         
Practicing Piano

NADIA OWUSU                       
The Heat of Dar es Salaam

JODY KENNEDY                        
Quetico

COLIN RAFFERTY                      
Kansas, She Said, Is the Name of the Star
(#34)

CHRIS SHORNE                          
Dishes

FILM

JUSTIN PHILLIP REED               
Logic & Optics: Gothika (2003)
Awaiting Acknowledgment: Alien 3 (1992)

INTERVIEW

ELIZABETH WILLIS
in conversation with
KATRINA TURNER

COVER ART

DAVID GRACIE
David