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Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Lee Welch, Abigail Carlson, Tina Zhu, Mandy Shunnarah, Jamaal May, Abbie Kiefer, Stephanie Burt & Mara Hampson, and more.

Editor’s Note

The Journal at 50

Isaiah Back-Gaal

Art Feature

Let everything happen to you from Lee Welch

Lee Welch

Fiction

Daughter, Deer

Abigail Carlson

Two Flashes

Christopher Chambers

The Absolute Master

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (Trans. Aysel Basci)

The Moon Swans

Tina Zhu

Nonfiction

On Languishing

Mandy Shunnarah

We Are Ifs Eternally

Gina Twardosz

The Plague of Darkness

Julie Marie Wade

Queen of Carrot Flowers

M. Jaime Zuckerman

Poetry

MAINE QUATRAINS

Stephanie Burt

ON THE SULKING PLACE

Stephanie Burt & Mara Hampson

Public Pool

Dry Socket

Christine Byrne

Tree of Knowledge, No. 7b

Seated Woman

Victoria Chang

D F E A R J O H N A S H B E R Y

Dante Di Stefano

Prosopopoeia

Chelsea Dingman

My mother and I agree on this

Cristi Donoso

On Gardeners’ World Month Don Leaves the Pond Plants Untrimmed in Deference to Tadpoles

Abbie Kiefer

Diminishing Returns

Jay Kophy

50 Observations

Sharon Lin

Ancestory

Tingyu Liu

THE SEQUEL TO BEING ALIVE

ALL THESE YEARS STILL READING LARRY LEVIS’S “TWELCE THIRTY-ONE NINETEEN NINETY-NINE”

Robert Wood Lynn

Sometimes He Wishes He Could Fight

The Meaning of Gorgeous

Jamaal May

Questionable Westerns

Freesia McKee

Sweat

Charlie Peck

The Anti (Black) Life Equation

Deon Robinson

THE ERA OF LETTING IT HAPPEN

Andie Sheridan

The brown tiger tabby

Mary Simmons

Dog Years

Evan Wang

(REASSIGNMENT)

Rose Zinnia

Interview

Impressions of Time: An Interview with Christine Lai

Nikki Barnhart

Review

Landscapes by Christine Lai

Nikki Barnhart

Notes on Contributors