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Avion Pearce

Afroforrealism Folio

17 Unarchived Poems and Stories by Henry Dumas

Treasure Shields Redmond interviews Eugene B. Redmond and Quincy Troupe

Will Alexander, "Subjective Electoral Torrent," "Canonization by Leper," "According to Tenets by Poltergeists," "Acreological Arcana," and "Oceanic Symbology"

Duriel E. Harris, "Maybe Not"

francine j. harris, "fir"

fahima ife, "still away"

Taylor Johnson, "American Song for the Book of Magic, with instructions for invoking spirits, etc." and "Consultant in Poetry"

Douglas Kearney, "Breff.," "Camembert," and "Trap."

Donika Kelly, "Tell It Short" and "Regarding Platform"

Nabila Lovelace, "What Else I Do with My Breasts," "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," and "Hate Me Now"

Jonah Mixon-Webster, "The Negro Dreams of Fried Chicken" and "Inchoate Chatter"

Tracie Morris, "Prism" and "Araminta"

Harryette Mullen, "Black History Minute," "Colorless Green Ideas," and "Leopard Coat Spotted at Polka Dance"

Joy Priest, "Quarrel"

Alison C. Rollins, "The Respiratory System," "The Clearing," and "Idiophone, or Memory Is a Strange Bell"

Kalamu ya Salaam, "Buddy Bolden"

Danez Smith, "METRO," "Jesus be a durag," and "i'm not bold i'm fucking traumatized"

Marcus Wicker, "ATLien Screens Rashid Johnson's 'The Hikers' at the High Museum of Art" and "DEAR MOTHERSHIP"

Ronaldo V. Wilson, "The First Law of Mirinkai"

Fiction

Janelle Bassett, "Bigus Canarius"

Lindy Biller, "The Princess and the Wolf"

Moisés Delgado, "[Gossip in Spanish]" and "The house across the street that burned down last year is burning down again"

Devanshi Ketarpal, "The House on Mohammed Ali Road"

Kate Lister Campbell, "Per Aspera"

Michelle Recinos, "Daysi Miller," tr. Isabella Corletto

Nonfiction

Hannah Bae, "The Girls in the Boat"

Ann Caputo, "Other Mothers"

Kennedy Coyne, "It's Okay, Don't Need to Say It"

Poetry

William Archila, "This field of weeds & wildflowers," "Spanish Lesson with a Handful of Dirt," and "our Mouths, Laurels & Lilies"

Kai Carlson-Wee, "Classical Music" and "Magic Eye"

Victoria Chang, "Quipu Womb" and Untitled, 1992"

.CHISARAOKWU., "Venus' Third Act, The Recovery, Part II"

Ajanaé Dawkins, "Bait-Fishing"

Patrick Dundon, "Tokens," "Trying to Know What You Think," and "Wild Arena"

Saddiq Dzukogi, "At a Mosque in Starkville, Ms.," "Exodus," and "Surge, in Nigeria"

Grace Ezra, "Elegy"

Catherine Pond, "Sutro Baths"

Daniel B. Summerhill, "the journalist asks if i'm angry that i've never met my father"
Winner of the 2023 Half-K Prize

Randall J. Tyrone, "Untitled Love Poem (Shoplifters)"

Cover Art

Sam Ross, two shirts, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 

Fiction

Emma Binder, "Jamie Takes the Wand"
Winner of the 2023 Fiction Prize

Whitney Collins, "Pie"

Jim Genia, "Wachi Winyan"

Stephanie Mark, "Jeanne Dielman's Bottle of Elnett"

Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez, "Ghosts"

Nonfiction

Siena Canales, "The Bath"

Brandon Lewis, "On the Comforts of the Floor"

Kristi D. Osorio, "The Sound of Burning"
Winner of the 2023 Nonfiction Prize

Said Shaiye, "Sneak a Uzi on the Island in My Army Jacket Lining"

Poetry

Diannely Antigua, "Fishing Out the Condom Has Me Believing in God"

Chris Crowder, "Paternity Test"

Raphael Jenkins, "Two men too man to mourn"

Robert Wood Lynn, "Kings County"
Winner of the 2023 Poetry Prize

Arianne Elena Payne, "Can You Be Submissive?"

Michelle Peñaloza, "To My Little One"

Saleem Hue Penny, "Haibun (6AM Bus Stop)," "O-Day," and "Haibun (East Hyde Park"

Brittany Rogers, "Doin Too Much"

Javier Sandoval, "Let What's Left Behind Remain There," "Uncle Peyote," and "Praise Dog!"

Alison Thumel, "Over Speakerphone"

Adele Elise Williams, "Winning with Rules" and "Deconstructing Milk Baby"

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rachael catharine anderson

Folio: The Possibility Is Here

Ace Boggess, “Did It Still Feel Like You Were in Prison?”

Demetrius A. Buckley & H.R. Webster, “I Can’t NOT Write Poems While the World Is Ending”

Grady DeRosa, “Rice Street,” “Hands,” and “Woven”

Henry Goldkamp, “[I paint landscapes mostly]” and “[dude I do not fear death]”

Brian Lee Kilpatrick & Susan L. Leary’s diary and poetry collaboration

Antonio Sanchez-Day, “fishbowl”

Kashawn Taylor, “Lamentations”

Rahsaan Thomas & Zinaria Williams, “Collaborative Connections”

Fiction

Ash Kaul, “Telephonic Tidings from Kashmir”

Melissa Llanes Brownlee, “Trophies” and “Cookies”

Julia Moncur, “The Fisherwoman”

Areej Quraishi, “Tawaif”

Debra J. Stone, “Chocolate Annie Oakley”

J.K. Tsosie, “Three MC’s and One DJ”

Evan Williams, “Chest to the Ground and Toes Pointed Downward”

Nonfiction

Fatima Alharthi, “Chickpea”

Benjamin Garcia, “A Personal History of Fuck”

Zach Jacobs, “Detail Work”

Robin Lee Lovelace, “Different Times, Different Degrees, Same Shit”

Michael David Lukas, “Bedtime Story”

Poetry

Geoff Anderson, “Twenty Pounds of Meat”

Hadara Bar-Nadav, “Zoom Funeral” and “The Hand of God”

Aida Bardissi, “aswan ghazal”

Aaron Coleman, “Glitch Miracles Here”

Kwame Dawes, “Three Latter Day Duppies,” “Thief,” and “Orgasm”

Chloe Forsell, “Ode to the Big Chop”

Aerik Francis, “Gigan for Opening the Urn”

Kate Gaskin, “21 Weeks” and “365 Days”

Janice N. Harrington, “Forethoughts” and “On the Kickapoo Trail”

K. Henderson, “The Glacier Speaks”

Sean Hill, “Braided in Denali”

Sophia Holtz, “roe”
Winner of the 2022 1/2K Prize

E. Hughes, “I Call Distraction a Bird” and “I Know Love by the Morning”

Hannah Perrin King, “UNTIL FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH COMES THE STERLING BIT OF MY MOTHER’S GIRLHOOD”

Cate Lycurgus, “Dear I.—”

Elisávet Makridis, “Self-Portrait as Cross Section of Tree Trunk”

Damien McClendon, “A Scratched Record”

andriniki mattis, “batty empire”

m. mick powell, “[there are so many things I’m not allowed to tell you]”

Sandra Simons, “The Serenity Motel,” “My Poem Outgrows Its Impetus,” and “The Container Store and the Cherry Tree”

Clancy Tripp, “Once, I Got Trapped in a Leather Suitcase”

Matthew Zapruder, “Sundays”

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Corey Pemberton, TT, I’m so done with you

Fiction

Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham, “Sunbathing is Forbidden in the Graveyard”

Ben Francisco, “Two People,” Winner of the 2022 Fiction Prize

Daniel Galef, “ALEA”

R. W. Hartshorn, "Goats

Alexandria Juarez, “Samples”

Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., “Over the River”

Nonfiction

Siew David Hii, “Kneeling for the Ring”

Tala Khanmalek, “On Language”

Aekta Khubchandani, “More than Trees"

Jabulile Mickle-Molefe, “The Future Is Semantic”

Steffan Triplett, “Disgregate”

Emily Weitzman, “Textual Analysis”

Poetry

Jessica Abughattas, “Beauty”

Nadia Q. Ahmad, “Ghazal: Screw Patience”

Ashna Ali, “A Word of Advice for Bearing Late Capitalism” and “Ode to Bumblebees Defiant in Summer”

Sarah Ghazal Ali, “On Seeing”

Aida Bardissi, “breaking bread” and “aswan ghazal”

Samiya Bashir, “Lethe,” “Phlegethon,” and “Acheron”

Mark Anthony Cayanan, “Dramaticule: Faith Is Relentless Agreement”

Franny Choi, “September, 2001”

Donte Collins, “Abecedarian at the End of the World” and “Still Life with Birth Certificate”

Winner of the 2022 Poetry Prize

Mele Girma, “pollen”

Dabin Jeong, “My Mother’s Sisters – IV”

Molly Johnsen, “After the Grocery Store”

Alexa Luborsky, “Crossword,” “April 24,” and “Excavation Site at Auschwitz”

Joyelle McSweeney, “Death Styles 8.21.20,” “Death Styles 8.13.20,” and “Death Styles 8.11.20 + 8.12.20”

Jasmine Reid, “not a suicide note,” “at 26, hugs are dangerous,” and “she harvests herself”

Monica Rico, “In the presence of the matriarch”

Alafia Nicole Sessions, “Villanelle as Portrait of Upright Melanated Mammal at Mid-Life”

Jess X. Snow, “Gazing at the Grand Canyon from the Moon”

Rosie Stockton, “Deconstitutional Rite”

Jenevieve Ting, “Second Nomenclature” and “Against Extinction”

Translation

Azo Vauguy, excerpts from Zakwato and Loglêdou’s Peril
Translated by Todd Fredson

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Bhasha Chakrabarti, I’m Just a Poor Fool That’s Bluer than Blue Can Be

Fiction

Natanya Biskar, “Dr. Bloch Takes His Rest”

Taryn Bowe, “Camp Emeline”
–Reprinted in Best American Short Stories 2023!

Desmond Everest Fuller, “Where It Comes From” 

Sharon Hashimoto, “Slippage”

Ra’Niqua Lee, “Your Next Girlfriend Has PCOS”

Kayla Lightner, “Secret Menu Items” 

Nonfiction

Susanna Childress, “Flip of the Switch: A Glossary of Disordered Sleep & Love”

grace (ge) gilbert, “Song of the Apostates” 

Evan J. Massey, “The Grass Crown: A Coronation”

Lucy McBee, “How to Ready Your Bones”

Rose Nguyễn, “To Speak, to Sing,” Winner of the 2021 Creative Nonfiction Prize

Poetry

George Abraham, “PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: PANDEMONIUM” 

Kay Ulanday Barrett, “The end of the world means trans bois sprout from sequins” 

Ariana Benson, “Aubade After Earth” 

Joshua Burton, “The Hearing We Inherit”

Jason B. Crawford, “When I finally leave New York, I am going to burn everything”

M.K. Foster, “Thunderbird”

Therese Gleason, “Fashion Statement” 

francine j. harris, “Chicken,” “Mastry (or Frontal Tuberosity)”

Sadia Hassan, “Self Portrait as Ophelia Floating in the River"

Ruth Ellen Kocher, “god of worship,” “in regard to beginning,” “our agreeable end” 

Chantel Massey, “i can tell you”

Sihle Ntuli, “Thukela”

Karisma Price, “Sempiternal: To the Future of a Crescent City”

Joy Priest, “The Black Outside”

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, “Broken Body Alluvium,” “Sonnet for the Study of Extreme Illusion Machined into the Highest Degree of Sacredness”

Sanam Sheriff, “Not forgetting, but choosing to,” Winner of the 2021 ½ K Prize 

Dāshaun Washington, “when mama wept”

Danielle P. Williams, “When people tell me that dancing hula makes you exotic”

Sandra M. Yee, “after her latest stroke my aunt sounds like Gertrude Stein” 

Folio: Between Worlds

Allison Albino, “The In Between of Sleep” 

Elliot Alpern, “Extraordinary Phenomena” 

Celeste Chen, “While Emerging from the Courts of Hell, Dong Xian Thinks about Cut Sleeves”

Devon Halliday, “Any Day Now”

Kira K. Homsher, “Network Support”

Caroline M. Mar, “高 祖 父 : A Correspondence : 太 爺”

Patricia Patterson, “Lucia Left Guadalajara and This Is What Happened After” 

Petra Salazar, “listen”

Cover Art

Dominic Chambers, Life Is Elsewhere

Fiction

Danit Brown, "Wife"

Gina Chung, "The Sound of Water"

Harryette Mullen, "Consanguinity"

Meghana Mysore, "Blood and Bone"

Hannah Nash, "The Counselor"

Suphil Lee Park, "Séance"

Julie Pecoraro, "Promise to Haunt Me"

Poetry

Jamaica Baldwin, "The End of Sorrow Is Not Happiness"

Sarah Burke, "What Happens Next"

Akhim Yuseff Cabey, "ARABESQUE"

David M. de León, "The Cats of Old San Juan"

Matthew Gellman, "BROTHER WITH RUPTURE"

Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, "409 Beadnose," "Forest," "The Many Exciting Possibilities of Metamorphosis"

Veronica Kornberg, "SHIP LIGHTS AT DAWN"

Rushi Vyas, "Double Slit," "Midwest Physics: First Law," "Remembrance"

Nonfiction

Jennifer Bullis, "Spiderwebs and Thimbleberries: Safety, Danger, and Drought on the Samish Crest"

Marcus Clayton, "High Yellow Dead Letter"

Melissa Fraterrigo, "Bad Blood"

Suzanne Martin, "Phantoms"

Cover Art

Shanequa Gay, Intercessory Deities

Fiction

Emily Harnden, "Zero to Egg to Love"

Brooke Sahni, "Tiny Mirrors"

Poetry

Darius Atefat-Peckham, "Here’s a Love Poem to Navid the Wrestler"

Lyn Li Che, "MÀ MĂ | SCOLDING THE HORSE"

Rage Hezekiah, "You Knew & Watched"

Indrani Sengupta, "nomen be," "Depo"

Wesley Sexton, "Strawberry Festival"

Samyak Shertok, "A Former Child Soldier of the Maoist
Revolution Seeks Asylum in America"

Josh Tvrdy, "Virginal"

Connor Yeck, "Maximum Overdrive"

Nonfiction

Elena M. Aponte, "Cortada, Revived"

Amy Chan, "Lai-jee"

Caitlin McGill, "On Desire"

Susan M. Stabile, "Cavity Nester"

Folio: Revelatory Wit 

Genevieve Abravanel, "Crushed and Destroyed Parents, You’re Our Target Demographic"

Daniela Kukrechtová, "Panelák Stories"

Angel Nafis, "Solo," "Queen of Versailles"

John Miguel Shakespear, "Conflict Resolution Strategy"

Maria Zoccola, "Extracurricular"

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Abe Odedina, "Scorched Earth"

Fiction

Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom, "Wild Mushrooms"

María José Candela, "Air Hunger"

Emily B. Cataneo, "Vainglory

K. Gorcheva-Newberry, "Beloveds"

Chelsey Grasso, "A City on Its Side"

Laura Schmitt, "Something With Wings"

Alyssa Songsiridej, "Predator and Prey"

Poetry

Nadia Alexis, "Suppose You Fail to Cover Your Mouth & So Evil Spirits Flew Out of Your Body"

Bai Nai (tr. Kate Costello), "Returning an Eye"

Wo Chan, "I Looked at You and I Said Yes"

Cody Dunn, "North Carolina"

Steven Duong, "Best Case Scenario"

Dylan J. Ecker, "Millie, the Halfmoon Beta"

Bernard Ferguson, "laugh track"

Rachel Galvin, "Corpse Pose"

Kabel Mishka Ligot, "Aliens of Extraordinary Ability, Samsara / Self-Portrait as a Forbes Park Squirrel"

Derek Otsuji, "The Killing of a Hawaiian Monk Seal"

Grazia Rutherford-Swan, "aphasia," "brain damage in southern oregon"

Seth Thill, "Stan Lee Came Up with Spider-Man Because He Saw a Fly Land on a Wall and Decided There Needed to Be a Superhero that Could Stick to Walls"

Keith S. Wilson, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

Nonfiction

May-lee Chai, "Moon Faces"

Cris Harris, "Survivor"

Cate Hodorowicz, "Tracking Foxes"

Lawrence Lenhart, "Dry-Safe and Together"

Raksha Vasudevan, "Searching for Rani"

Vonetta Young, "Prep Life"

Cover Art

Therrious Davis

Fiction

Laton Carter

Mario Giannone

Faith Merino

Alyssa Proujanksy

Nick Story

Emily Ziffer

Poetry

Yasmeen Alkishawi

Rachel Andoga

Ayer Arguelles (tr. Kristine Ong Muslim)

Jose Kervin Cesar Calabias

Rachel Heng

Geramee Hensley

Luisa A. Igloria

Amy Lam

Michael Landreth

Nonfiction

Michael Bogan

Wendy A. Gaudin

Amanda Sue Leannán

T.B. Grennan

Emily Lawson

Reyes Ramirez

Grace Randolph

Keith S. Wilson

Cover Art

Kristen Radtke

Fiction

Gregory Ariail, "Transubstantiation"

Anum Asi, "The Visitors"

Caroline K. Fulford, "Revival"

Geetha Iyer, "Water Fire House"

Neshat Khan, "The Portrait"

Samantha Kimmey, "Counterbot"

Krys Lee, "The Pastor's Wife"

Alyssa Quin, "Sidewalk to the Moon"

Sally Wen Mao, "Dwarf Empire"

Poetry

Katie Berta, "Google Search Results"

Emily Cinquemani, "Life Cycle: Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis or Zombie Ant Fungus" 

Mary-Alice Daniel, "Finally, You Enter the Castle of Mental and Physical Well-Being"

Emily Jaeger, "Maybe a Sea," "The Fishnet"

Lydia T. Liu, "Here"

Angie Mazakis, "Index of Community Errors," "There's No Face for This"

Rachel Mennies, "November 27, 2016," "December 11, 2016"

Bridget O'Berstein, "Δ"

Alison Prine, "Letter to Time, September 29"

Stella Wong, "Buddha Discovers Reincarnation and Reaches Nirvana under the Fig Tree's Heart-Shaped Leaves"

Nonfiction

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (tr. Ryan Choi), "Sentences and Words"

Clarence Harlan Orsi, "If I Say I'm a Chimp"

Nina Yun, "Half Speak"

Cover Art

Jenna Freimuth & Mindy Sue Wittock, Wondermakers No. 61

Folio: Collaborative Voices

Lena Ziegler, "We all want to believe that someone, somewhere, would die for us"

Henry Goldkamp & Sean F. Munro, "A Battle for America"

M.C. Bond, "Something of Love, Something of Water"

Kenneth Lee, "Track Changes in English"

Ross Gay & Shayla Lawson, "We Are Each Other: Interview on The Tenderness Project"

Fiction

Janalyn Guo, "Reanimate"

Liz Howey, "A Little Give"

Jeremy Packert Burke, "Leavetaking"

Moss Perricone, "The Van Druezen Face"

JD Scott, "Your Mother, the Goddess Nuit"

Emma Sciantarelli, "The Host"

Beth Steidle, "Graft"

Julia Strayer, "My Sister Was Eaten by an Alligator"

Lee Upton, "The Hounds of X"

Poetry

Fiona Chamness, "The God of Bargains"

Yongyu Chen, "Watching El Mar La Mar"

Wren Hanks, "Legible"

Arden Levine, "Little She"

Aline Mello, "Imagine You're Not Alone"

Emily Nason, "Eyewall"

Rainie Oet, "What Happened on the Second Millicoaster," "The Garrison Heart Attack Experiment," "How Dizzy I forget My Features"

Carolyn Oliver, "The PUblic Is Invited to See the Yew Trees in Full Fruit at This Time"

Jan Padio, "Parade Street"

Megan Pinto, "Falling"

Xiao Yue Shan, "the floods of summer 2018"

David Trinidad, "Proustian"

Scott Withiam, "Bob Being a Manhole"

S. Yarberry, "Sphinx"

Nonfiction

John Cotter, "The Furies"

D. Gilson, "Trailer Park Proverbs"

Angela Palm, "Designs of the Body"

Paige Towers, "The Sound of Nothing"

Lauren W. Westerfield, "Dark Storage"

Emily Withnall, "Not the Women Frida Slept With"