He had a pet tree named Rigor Mortis / and swore when he spoke in tongues.
A
Austin Araujo
A Mexican-American Novel
A year- / in-the-life type of tale.
C
Anne Barngrover
Ceres in the Permafrost Thaw
Can you see all of me more clearly / this time?
L
Amy Beeder
Life Cycle of the Dragonfly
Instinct is our parent, too, // & motion
O
Mackenzie Berry
On the Day I Bury the River
For 90 days it starved and never once died.
T
Nazifa Islam
The Playing-Field
The wake of a battle / seems to lie // on the long grasses.
D
Goldie Negelev
Dollar Store Roses
do you hate money
B
Goldie Negelev
Big Life
now this is the softcore version
U
Callie Siskel
Unattainability Ode
how I wished / to see her sleeping
NONFICTION
N
Meredith Arena
Nine Places
Here my mother will peel back layers of wallpaper in the kitchen, its large orange and brown patterned flowers tearing stingily.
P
Dana Jackson
Psychology 101: Id, Ego, and White Supremacy
Black psychologists understood it as aggression, a demonstration of power.
T
Christina Poletto
The Fate of Small Negotiations
My son’s DNA is rainbow colored.
T
Keene Short
The Berkeley Pit
The earth was already poisonous from the start.
FICTION
A
Susan Falco
Another Country Death Song
Sidra was a Polish girl who’d read a lot of Nietzsche and wanted to die.
N
Sydney Faith
Nine Mournings
The first morning is soaked in fog and dew collects on her bare shoulders, speckles of water crowding together in an anxious wait as Harriet stands in the middle of the crossroad.
A
Bernard James
Aqua Boogie
The State Store was a squat, Soviet-style building parked on the less-heeled side of our little town.
