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Sarah Levine's Each Knuckle with Sugar is a soft yet powerful deep-dive into love and grief told through multiple fascinating perspectives.¿¿"I love this book. [...] Look, some of its tanginess may leap off the page and startle your fingers. Some of its honey may stick to your knuckles. Let it."-Chen Chen, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"To make of bewilderment itself a world serviceable enough to live in-to imagine a way through: this seems the chief imperative of River City Fires, whose astonishing poems hover around fires both actual and metaphorical in a landscape/riverscape/forestscape both recognizable and surreal. These are poems whose meanings I can't always parse-and I don't feel I'm supposed to; instead, they seem like slant confessions, not of trauma, but from trauma; they articulate the triumph of survival, they fragment what's whole and, instead of restoring it, reimagine the possibilities for wholeness. 'Blessed are the burned. The blistered/inherit the earth.' A terrific collection."-Carl Phillips, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry"River City Fires is beautiful, elemental, and oracular. It's as steeped in threat as any fable or holy book, and the darkness is forever manifesting into fears and friends. Like the book of Proverbs armed with a rifle, every poem transforms themselves at each line break's dire revelations. Surreal and archetypal, this city and its fires speak (as many fires do) to god, asking 'make death/turn away.' These poems will haunt you with the most gorgeous aching."-Traci Brimhall, author of our lady of the ruins

In Optometry, a girl goes to an optical shop for a pair of glasses. As the eye doctor calibrates the optometry machine to investigate the faults and fractures in her eyes, she is transported to a new world, a place full of overlapping images, dots, curves, houses, and light reflections. The girl must navigate through the various unique planes within optometry world, confronting endless labyrinths, exploding worlds, and multiple versions of herself to find her way back to reality before she becomes lost forever in a daze. Artist Xiang Yata takes you on a journey showing how our thought patterns branch out through multiple art forms, including sketching, photography, and graphic design to investigate the myriad ways we perceive ourselves.

In Lanternfly August, Robin Gow contends with the emotional geographies of home through the lens of an often-demonized species of insect.

REJOICER is a stunning debut collection of poems that exist at the intersection of surrealism and reverence. Skyler Osborne's striking language and unforeseen imagery will ask readers to consider what is holy, what is mundane, and what our place in the middle is.

Mitchell Untch's Memorial With Liminal Space is a staggering work of poetics that delves headfirst into the intersections of grief, faith, and identity. As the title suggests, these poems are equal parts dense and opaque, casting both light and shadow over the death of the poet's twin brother. Masterful language and visual inventiveness culminate in a collection that feels intimate and universal, timeless but arriving at a moment when the world is still reeling from the ravages of sickness.

Taking the reins of our previous bi-annual literary magazine, our new annual anthology packs double the punch! This year's release brings you over 150 pages of fiction, over 50 pages of poetry, and around 80 pages of comics. The anthology is also filled with dozens of thoughtful, craft-focused interviews that take a dive deep into these amazing pieces of writing and art.

Bark On follows triathlete Ezra Fogerty, who is training under the guidance of recently disgraced Olympic coach Benji Newton. They live on the barrier island of Kure, North Carolina, where a growing coyote population is displacing locals and tourists alike. Benji combats the coyotes and structures Ezra's training with a system of superstitions that Ezra finds dubious. When Benji invites teenaged orphan Casper Swayze to live and train with them, Ezra begins to question Benji's motives as well as his methods: does Benji see Ezra as a potential champion or a couch to crash on until he finds his next prodigy?

This stunning collection of poems from writer & performance artist Niki Tulk explores the aftermath of sexual assault. Tulk unearths myths and folklore, revealing profound truths about the stories we craft around violence, womanhood, and justice.

"Melody S. Gee's gorgeous poems offer both divine wounds and delicious consolations. At the intersections of the familial and the sacred, The Convert's Heart is Good to Eat reminds us that what is created is also consumed. Beautiful, sensory, and aching, this collection reminds us that not all hungers are mortal ones."- Traci Brimhall, author of our lady of the ruins

"Jen Silverman's poems are baptisms of desire. They've traveled the world and come back to tell you the pleasure to be found there, the holes of each leaving, the way it is all 'drenched in light and wine.' Economical in syntax and generous in image, Bath astonishes at every turn with its heart, its wisdom, its waters."- Traci Brimhall, author of our lady of the ruins"I have a crush on Jen Silverman's language. This multi-hyphenate wordsmith writes poetry that sings with silver fish scales, bathes in love, hopes for redemption. I'll read with ardor anything Silverman writes, in any genre." - Sarah Ruhl, playwright of Eurydice

David Greenspan's One Person Holds So Much Silence explores the intersection of physical and emotional traumas through surprising and jaw-dropping language. Simultaneously lush and bizarre, the poems in One Person Holds So Much Silence culminate in a striking deep-dive into the pain and experiences of existing within a body. From self-harm to suicidal ideation, Greenspan tackles these harrowing topics through writing brimming with original language and wrought empathy.

"A great chapbook drills deep, yielding such vibrant detail that we cannot help but inhabit the world built before us. That's the case of the bracing, strangely beautiful Dead Uncles, which proposes a reality (and sur-reality) of a sprawling, intergenerational family whose bonds are inflected by sexual transgression. One dead uncle casts a spell for killing barn mice; another keeps his hold on local office thanks to votes tallied from the 'Cemetery Precinct.' Material that could seem grim in another poet's hands is set a-glimmer here by formal dexterity, bold humor, bright images, and musicality of phrasing." -Sandra Beasley, Count the Waves

" 'On Earth, a fish barricades her den / and emerges male two months later, / melon-head worthy of brawling and teeth, ' announces one of the brilliant sectioned poems central to Lily-livered. 'On Mars, the sunset is blue. / She asks me about this second life / of red dirt, burnt skin. What do you enjoy // about being a man?' Although framed by a series of 'transiversaries, ' to describe this collection in diaristic terms would not do justice to the overlay of questions raised around gender, beauty, diet, desire, violence, medication and self-medication. An interest in refrain and cyclical structures anchors us, pleasingly counterbalanced against enjambment and an adventuresome sense of the line; we welcome cultural cameos from Shakespeare, HBO, and indie rock. This is a stunning read that showcases a sophisticated, exciting approach to contemporary poetics." -Sandra Beasley, Count the Waves"Lily-livered is a beautifully braided catalog of ways to live and not die. Wren Hanks writes on friendship, hunger, touch, transformation, and the inheritance of a trait for which the chapbook is named. 'Imagine it happened in a barn, a meat cellar.' These poems unfurl as an array of forms, forms of life, with sensuous patterns and particulars. With 'stubble the possible field, ' Hanks breathes lines that combine ribaldry, romance, and refrain into stunning, surprising images and interconnections. This is a smart, moving collection that you will love reading alone or with friends. 'The ground is safe.' "-Oliver Baez Bendorf, Advantages of Being Evergreen

"Magnolia Canopy Otherworld explores the places that hold the muddied and forested histories of women. Sensory and sensual, Erin Carlyle's poems portray an elemental girlhood, and the fragility and publicness of a body, even in the woods. These poems are full of dangerous baptisms, teeth and hooks, gothic flora and their attendant ghosts. Carlyle's style is lush and lovely, but always tugging with its dark undertow until we feel our own animal selves rise out at the end, gasping and human again."-Traci Brimhall, author of our lady of the ruins"Erin Carlyle's Magnolia Canopy Otherworld is a book of precise, gemlike images, where beneath the duende-soaked landscape of rivers, rabbits, trailers, and woodlots, the evidence of patriarchal damage lurks like an undertow. As an act of resistance, Carlyle sets before us the world we have been taught to ignore and says look: the roadkill, the small child wandering alone, the desolation of addiction, the woman-as-object. Wherever the poet casts her eye, the ghosts of violence, family, adolescence, and loss materialize and their visitations are traced with an urgent lyricism that is both gritty and graceful. Open these pages and watch as Erin Carlyle calls forward the drowned girls in their matching white dresses. Be ready for her to interrupt your life with poem after stunning poem in this haunting and arresting debut."-F. Daniel Rzicznek, author of Settlers"In this haunting and visceral collection, Carlyle guides us on an imaginative and transformative journey through Southern girlhood in which girls are ghosts, girls are animals, girls are daughters and lost friends, girls struggle to be more than just bodies. A riveting, smart, and unforgettable debut."-Rebecca Morgan Frank, author of Little Murders Everywhere

"Train-sounds, dew-sounds, sounds from the hair, prayerful sounds and python sounds, fish market then mooncake sounds, sounds of falling into water, sounds of rising from fire-these are the sounds of Village of Knives, a collection that speaks through how much, how closely and imaginatively it listens. The poems here listen to immigrant life and dream, to gendered expectation and subversion, to desire, to the body's surging, briny rhythms. This is a poet who understands the power of paring away the noise to zero in on the music: 'How we turned off all the lights in the house / & fell to our knees / just to hear the sound of bone.'"- Chen Chen, author of When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities "Fierce and full of teeth, these poems are living creatures that will eat you alive. Helli Fang crafts each surprising image with care and incisiveness, pr obing the past and its living lineage of violence, migration, and love. Village of Knives is razor-sharp and lyrical,full of language that is both divine and bodily, grief-ridden and ecstatic. These poems give us a new and necessary vocabulary for displacement, diasporic desire, and daughterhood. Fang reminds us that language is a weapon and a refuge, a site of resistance and memory and regeneration. Her words reach for the light beyond loss."-K-Ming Chang, author of Past Lives, Future Bodies

Featured in our first bi-annual issue is the 2018 Adrift Short Story Contest winning story "Terminal Velocity" by Claire Agnes, which was selected by guest judge David Jauss. Our second featured story, Shane Page's "Her Noble Face," features a former pugilist and his fighting dog. This issue's poetry dives headlong into the complexity of life's extremes; chronic illness, prison sentences, the threat of drowning, and more are laid bare in poems bursting with equal parts honesty and vivid imagination. J. Collings, Jason Hart, and Cindy House round out the issue with stand-out comics.

The featured short story, "Curse of Ham," precedes a lengthy interview on socio-politics and the risks of writing from a racist's perspective. The poems in this issue dazzle with investigations of place and body; exoplanets, birthing scars, bulldozed buildings, mermaid scales, and more fill poems begging to be touched and explored. The issue wraps with a poem-comic examining the clash of nature and machines.--Our eighteenth issue features work from the talented minds of Nicholas Nakai Garcia, Daniel Kuriakose, Kiyoko Reidy, Michael Webber, Maggie Blake Bailey, Haikki Huotari, Ahja Fox, Natalya Sukhonos, Erin Carlyle, LeeAnn Olivier, Elizabeth Kerlikowski, Betsy Johnson- Miller, Richard Vyse, Ray Nayler, and Cesar Sebastian Diaz .The managing editors are James McNulty and Jerrod Schwarz. Rick Krizman is the guest fiction editor. Megan Nemise Hall is the poetry editor. Sally Franckowiak is the cover designer. Cover by Richard Vyse.