POETRY
Ahmad Almallah: “Abandon”
Kimo Armitage: “Tahiti Vacation”
Paul Bowers: “An Oklahoma Weather Poem that Makes No Mention of Tornadoes” and “Boiled Eggs”
Tracy Chait: “Lambing Season”
William Doreski: “Author, Author!”
Carol Hamilton: “Evolution is Sometimes Swift,” “The Plan to Eliminate Dirty Animals,” and “Reward for the Traveler”
Michael Hettich: “The Party“, “The Scar,” and “This Yearning”
Clark Holtzman: “My Motion” and “My Payment”
Dane Karnick: “Dairy Goats,” “To Route 66,” and “The Undoing”
Scott Laudati: “Night Before Thanksgiving” and “The Heart of America”
Sandra McChesney: “The Space Where My Father Sat”
Rajnish Mishra: “What do I call it if not beauty?” and “My city rises from within”
Martina Reisz Newberry: “Aunt & Grapes” and “Verdigris”
Janice Northerns: “The Creative Writing Teacher Explains Love,” “Grandfather of the Bottomland,” and “Real Estate Values”
Bethany Reid: “Insomnia,” “On the Earth of My Childhood,” and “Her Life in Flashback”
Ron Riekki: “The Rejection of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan”
Terry Savoie: “Speaking of Weather,” “In Pursuit of the North American Sunset,” and “Red Raincoat. Running Mascara. Red Light (1967)”
Larry D. Thomas: “Ex-Nuns, Crabbing”
Xin Lei: “autumn” and “inspiration,” translated by Liang Huichun and Steven Schroeder
Jonas Zdanys: from Three White Horses

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VISUAL ART
Helen Geld: “touch and go” and “tulip time”
Haylee Massaro: “The Last Fishing Village”

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RESPONSES AND REVIEWS
Ken Hada: “‘Fear is Like a Handful of Dust’: a review of Sly Alley’s Strong Medicine” and a review of Mestizos Come Home!: Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity

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COVER IMAGE BY HAYLEE MASSARO