March 2023
Cover artist: Aya KakedaBefore I was a poet, I was a lineage.KB Brookins
- Kinsale Drake
- Nam Le
- Rodolfo Avelar
- Dorothea Lasky
- Terrance Hayes
From this Issue
Poem
By Jenny George
A snake lies in the open, dormant
in its sleeve of heat. A gilded orphan
on the sun-warmed dirt, eye-slits ajar,
waiting for the infinite to arrive...
Poem
By Laura Villareal
Phoenix Art Museum, 2018
Long ago I learned the trick,
walk away when you see...
Poem
By Jay Deshpande
We stay in a room the ocean accepts
as its accompaniment. Picture-frame window, one
bright line across it. Crashing waves
heard through the insulation as a continuous loop...
Table of Contents
POEMS
- Jenny George
- Laura Villareal
- Jay Deshpande
- Nam Le
- Ari Wolff
- Dorothea Lasky
- Kinsale Drake
- Cathleen Calbert
- Roda Avelar
- KB Brookins
- Yuki Tanaka
- Yahya Hassan
- Jordan Barger
HOW IT CONTINUES TO ASTONISH: THE POETRY OF ANN LAUTERBACH
NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER
CONTRIBUTORS
