June 2024

Volume 5, Issue 2

Poetry

• Roxanne Lynne Doty Furnishings and Girls, 1969 — sex, divorce, abandonment, eviction

• Nadia Arioli Tom Wambsgans Swallows — sex, binge eating, drug use, mental illness

• Sally Geiger Kitchen I — homophobia, transphobia, animal cruelty, body horror

• Alex Rettie The Gift — sex

• Mara Adamitz Scrupe absolute reality: and Nostrum — body horror, illness

• Kathy Pon Preservation — disease, death, animal death, Parkinson’s

• Jonathan Everitt The Little Room — homophobia

• Liz Ahl Wild — guns

• Sara Lynn Eastler The Delicate Art of Human Preservation — miscarriage, stillbirth

• Brennan Bogert-St. Vincent Bird Transformation — animal death

• Babette Cieskowski Initiation — religion

• Victoria Reynolds Yard in Early September — death

• Katherine Riegel 1001 Nights — death, domestic/gender-based violence

• Dianna Morales cherry tomatoes — blood

• Stephanie Niu Study in Blue and 青 and 兰 — physical abuse