Fiction

​Annie Bashaw                                   Surfacing
Julia Rose Greider                           Girls’ Night Out
Mia Uys                                              Waiting Room 
S Sam McClure                                 Carcharodon
Michael Nath                                     from Talbot & The Fall: A Comedy (With Support), Chapter 4, ‘Charlie Talbot’
Eugene Radice                                  Veracruz
Storm Ainsely                                   Revolving Doorman
Shannon Savvas                               Nave Nave Moe


​John Michael Trent                        Love Letter
Elinor Ann Walker                         Haunted by Sistema Sac Actun
Adesiyan Oluwapelumi                 psalmist with rosewater
Claire Scott                                              I keep learning new ways to light a match
Beth Gordon                                           Crone: Raising the Dead
Court Ludwick                                 Small Talk
Loisa Fenichell                                At the bar, C calls me lonely, like actually 
Hannah Bonner                                      The Ascetic
Joshua Nguyen                                Outside The Gym is Another Gym [A Counterpublic In Public]
Mihir Bellamkonda                        The Horse
Em Townsend                                 poem (i know queer joy is real because i exist)
Sheila Black                                     It’s a list of what I cannot touch
Anna Weaver                                   paradise
Rana Tahir                                       The Mermaid on Returning to the Sea
A.E. Wynter                                     Object Permanence
Seun Fakoyede                                       To escape bad memory
Mickie Kennedy                                     A Styrofoam Cup Filled with Peels 
                                                           Gluttons
jason b. crawford                           Untitled 1975–86
Melissa Strilecki                                     How to Start a Fire with Sticks
Shilo Niziolek                                  Triptych for the Tender-Footed
Zedekiah Gonsalves Schild                  From the Bones of California
taylor nicole s.                                 [if church be the horizon]
Therese Gleason                             Mums
Cathlin Noonan                              Do You Have to Pee Before We Go? 
Mixby Dickon                                         Dear Cis Readers: I wrote a love song to my body
Nathanael O’Reilly                                Guillotine
Tamara Panici                                        IT FELL FROM A TREE
Hilary R. MezaGuerra                           fall fruit
Luke Johnson                                  Divining 
                                                           Fentanyl 
Natalie Rice                                             LARCH GATE
Nik Moore                                        Synonyms for Return
Marlanda Dekine                            field notes
Richard Blanco                                The Splintering
                                                             between [another door]
                                                             Complaint of El Río Grande


Creative Nonfiction, Art, & Interviews

Sarah Harley                                     The Wings
Athena Dixon                                    Get in Shape, Girl
Lisa Knopp                                         Threads
Elizabeth Gonzalez James              No, the truth isn’t out there
Stuart Lane Osborne                               Unfinished
Patrick Dougher                                I & I HERE COME THE HOT STEPPER
                                                              EARTH ANGEL I
                                                              THE CORNER CROSSROADS
                                                              FINAL CALL
                                                              DERELICT SERENADE
                                                              TIERRA AZUL
                                                              BAHIA DREAM
                                                              WE ARE FUNDING OUR OWN OPPRESSION


Interview with artist Patrick Dougher
Interview with author Michael Nath
Interview with author Athena Dixon
Interview with poet Richard Blanco

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SPRING 2024, VOLUME 15
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