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September 2022
On Monuments; Cover Artist: Weshoyot AlvitreKenzie AllenSometimes the stories wait for you
to begin
- Kenzie Allen
- A. Van Jordan
- Walter Ancarrow
- Martín Tonalmeyotl
- Daniela Ema Aguinsky
From this Issue
Poem
By Martín Tonalmeyotl
Nació en medio de las altas montañas
y le fue asignado un jaguar como guardián.
Con sus manos cultivó un valle de flores para las
mariposas...
Poem
By Kierstin Bridger
i A (This) fingerprint (place) is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger (battle). The recovery of partial fingerprints (places) from a crime scene is an important method of forensic science (reclaiming home). Moisture (Extraction practices, i.e. natural gas, minerals) and grease (oil) on a finger (landscape...
Poem
By Lucas Jorgensen
Brigit Pegeen Kelly said it burned. Hera Lindsay Bird said it burned in alphabetical order. There’s nothing left about it to say. To say, “there’s nothing left about it to say” is awfully similar to what Alberto Ríos said about the Sonoran Desert and its fires—mainly, actually, that there was only one thing left to say. Then, he said it. The way it...
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Table of Contents
POEMS
- Esther Belin
- Martín Tonalmeyotl
- Kierstin Bridger
- Lucas Jorgensen
- Mansi Dahal
- Rena Priest
- Janelle Tan
- Vance Couperus
- Henk Rossouw
- Crisosto Apache
- Keith S. Wilson
- Amber McCrary
- Kenzie Allen
- Lesley Wheeler
- Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
- Krystyna Dąbrowska
- Serena Rodriguez
- Daniela Ema Aguinsky
- Spring Ulmer
- Joan Naviyuk Kane
- Bes Bajraktarević
- Tyler Mitchell
- Ajibola Tolase
- Christopher Shipman
- Joan Wickersham
- A. Van Jordan
- Walter Ancarrow
COMMENT
- Raymond Antrobus
- Esther Belin, Eric Lockard, Amber McCrary, Tyler Mitchell
CONTRIBUTORS
- Daniela Ema Aguinsky
- Kenzie Allen
- Walter Ancarrow
- Raymond Antrobus
- Crisosto Apache
- Bes Bajraktarević
- Esther Belin
- Kierstin Bridger
- Vance Couperus
- Mansi Dahal
- Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
- Krystyna Dąbrowska
- A. Van Jordan
- Lucas Jorgensen
- Joan Naviyuk Kane
- Eric Lockard
- Amber McCrary
- Tyler Mitchell
- Rena Priest
- Serena Rodriguez
- Henk Rossouw
- Christopher Shipman
- Janelle Tan
- Ajibola Tolase
- Martín Tonalmeyotl
- Spring Ulmer
- Lesley Wheeler
- Joan Wickersham
- Keith S. Wilson