Volume Nineteen, Number One

Poetry:

Anthony Caleshu, Sharon Dolin, Jill McDonough, Annik Adey-Babinsky, Liliana Ursu, Julian Stannard, Lindsay Illich, Anzhelina Polonskaya, Octavio Quintanilla, Shane McCrae, Aviya Kushner, others

Fiction:

“Iphigenia in Baltimore” by Jen Fawkes, “O Thou, Whom My Soul Doth Love,” by Rochelle Distelheim, “Tiny Rhode Islands” by Eugenio Volpe, “Do You Know What a Leader Is?” by Luke Fiske, “The Dome” by Gary Scott

Reviews:

Heather Madden, Immersed in Song: If One of Us Should Fall by Nicole Terez Dutton

Valerie Duff-Strautmann, Directions: Westerly by Will Schutt; Strange Borderlands by Ben Berman

Jacqueline Kolosov, Metamorphoses: Song & Error: Poems by Averill Curdy

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