In this issue:

“Sobremesa”
poetry by Graciela Reyes
(translated from the Spanish by Jackie K. White)

“A Thing of Beauty”
fiction by Joseph Voth

“Witness”
poetry by Rocío Cerón
(translated from the Spanish by Dana Delibovi)

“[I am asked to give a lecture]”
prose poetry by Justin Hollis

“The Milk of Life”
fiction by Elana Marcus

“When the World Was Still Vegetable-Based”
“Song for a Lavender Moth”
poetry by Anne Broeksma
(translated from the Dutch by Judith Wilkinson)

“Encounters L: Extraordinarily Ordinary”
“Encounters XLIX: These Woods”
“Encounters LV: The Importance of Obscurity”
creative nonfiction by Susan Johnson

“I Learned to Drink by Doing the Dishes”
poetry by Gunilla T. Kester

“Christmas Cookies”
fiction by Vincent E. Monroe

“[The window is open]”
poetry by Irina-Roxana Georgescu
(translated from the French by Clara Burghelea)

“A Brief History of My Hair”
essay by Diane Comer

“Time Is Running Slow Again”
“In the Morning”
“It’s Simple”
poetry by Ryan Di Francesco

“The Last Piece of Chocolate”
creative nonfiction by Lilia Mahfouz
(translated from the French by the author)

“Firmat’s Last Theorem”
poetry by Gustavo Pérez Firmat


Cover artwork: “La mangeuse d'huîtres”/“De oestereetster” (“The Oyster Eater”),
1882, oil on canvas, 205 x 150.5 centimeters
by James Ensor

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