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The Book | Fall at Lake Ontario | oko Metoki

POETRY

Sight Unseen | Christian J. Collier

Eyes Round Sockets With No Light | Dion O’Reilly

K Block, Chittaranjan Park | Dipika Mukherjee

Ball and Chain | Sara Moore Wagner

Diagnosis | Michael T. Young

The Baron Crosses the River| Marsha Pomerantz

Séance, with reliquary | Taylor Supplee

Foreign Bodies | Sarah Giragosian

The Book | Fall at Lake Ontario | Sandra Marchetti

Useless | Hibah Shabkhez

Joshua’s Pond | Rimas Uzgiri

We Return to Where We Were Born | Janine Certo

I Watch Baseball | My Other Self | Hari Bhajan Khalsa

Pacifying Archery (Ekalavya Adūnīs) | Hari Alluri

[untitled] | James Roderick Burns

king of the bar scene | Charlotte Covey

Happiness | Barbara Crooker

Representative | Guna Moran (trans. from Assamese by Bibekananda Choudhury)

In Darkness and Distance | Richard Foerster

Names for Nothing | Sandra Fees

Your smile | Carolyn Gelland

Venetian Churches | Stephen Gibson

At the Root of Nerve | James Grabill

Poem Written Listening to Joy Division on Father’s Day | Sean Thomas Dougherty 

Back-up Singers | Katie Hartsock

Five Stages | Romana Iorga

Cabin | Charles Kell

Jack & Diane, Rearview Mirror | Beth Calls for the Last Time, Has to Leave a Message | Sandy Longhorn

Passive Ideation | Nate Maxon

A Change of Sky | James McKee

Service Times | David Moody

Awkward Diary, Four and a Half Stars | Scott Beal

Lake Merritt | Casey Newbegin

Trains, Pigeons, Wind | Loren Walker

PROSE

Maps & Fires | Jared Green

Relief | Edward Lee