
February 2020
Nick AdamMaggie SmithLet us
talk more of how darkthe beginning of a day is.
- Jeffrey Yang
- Maggie Smith
- Angela Jackson
- Talin Tahajian
- John Lee Clark
From this Issue
Poem
From the magazine:Fingers on a Gay Man
A pair of adolescent boys grabs a rabbit to shear off its ears. It doesn’t matter why, whether they’re sad or from the city. What matters is what they do with their hands: hold the blade, hang the rabbit by...
Poem
From the magazine:One Day I Suddenly Notice ...1
You made your students write stories about happiness and they were, you said, the worst stories of the year. Remember the pregnant woman? in a Fontainebleau café, I meant to reset it in America when I wrote the poem, she...

Table of Contents
Poems
- Zach Linge
- Jesus Govea
- Daisy Fried
- Terese Svoboda
- James McCorkle
- Zeina Hashem Beck
- Alison C. Rollins
- Maggie Smith
- Jessica Greenbaum
- Mia You
- John Lee Clark
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Caoilinn Hughes
- Beth Bachmann
- Mary B. Moore
- Virginia Keane
- Lani O'Hanlon
- Gabrielle Bates
- francine j. harris
- Partridge Boswell
- Nome Emeka Patrick
- Angela Jackson
- Talin Tahajian
- Jack Underwood
- Rodney Jones
- Dujie Tahat
- Liz Berry
- David Felix
Comment
- Jeffrey Yang
CONTRIBUTORS
- Beth Bachmann
- Gabrielle Bates
- Zeina Hashem Beck
- Liz Berry
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Partridge Boswell
- John Lee Clark
- David Felix
- Daisy Fried
- Jesus Govea
- Jessica Greenbaum
- Caoilinn Hughes
- Angela Jackson
- Rodney Jones
- Virginia Keane
- Zach Linge
- James McCorkle
- Mary B. Moore
- Lani O'Hanlon
- Nome Emeka Patrick
- Alison C. Rollins
- Maggie Smith
- Terese Svoboda
- Talin Tahajian
- Dujie Tahat
- Jack Underwood
- Jeffrey Yang
- Mia You
- francine j. harris