Fall into the Rotted Mouth a Little Bit Lighter | E. Kristin Anderson

"When I’ve felt casualty creeping toward me I’ve never reached / for the gospel. Instead perhaps a fire or a dance. In this way / I know I am heretic— a dirtier flavor watching bones and papers..."

Image Formation | Sabrina Gaskill

Sabrina Gaskill lives in rural New Mexico. She makes experimental text-visual work and is also a teacher and psychotherapist.

How to Build a Box | Benjamin Kessler

"Amass your lumber. Use planks recovered from Great Cottonwood, which stood out near Haystack Rock for all those years and of which pieces can still be found around Furness, Wyoming..."

In the Beginning | Peg Alford Pursell

"Her father likes to tell the story of her beginning, as a blue baby. She has heard it two times before, a memorable magnitude when it comes to her taciturn father..."

Selected Poems | Karen An-hwei Lee

Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Phyla of Joy (Tupelo 2012), Ardor (Tupelo 2008) and In Medias Res (Sarabande 2004). She authored a novel, Sonata in K (Ellipsis 2017).

Six Words | Tracy Daugherty

Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, six short story collections, a book of personal essays, a collection of essays on literature and writing, as well as biographies of Donald Barthelme, Joseph Heller, and Joan Didion.