Spring 2025 Number 52
Cover art by Debora Greger: To a Painter of Eyespots
Featured Poet
Gregory Pardlo
- Charm for Darkness
- Apology for the Use of Charms
- Charm for Enduring the Dark Night of the Soul
- Charm for the Transmigration of the Soul
- Theater Selfie
- Question and Answer
- Tall Poppies
- Convertible
- Problema 3
- Philadelphia, Negro
- Title It Shotgun Wound
- The Miniaturist
Mitchell Atkinson III
Matt W. Miller
Featured Essay
David J. Rothman,
"She measured to the hour its solitude": "The Idea of Order at Key West" and the Emotional Purpose of Meter
Read Online
- Palavi Ahuja: three generations of the same
- David Barber: Danse Macabre
- David Barber: Makeshift Carousel, Dry Lakebed, Ancient Fort
- Erica Dawson: Stay Apparatus
- Hannah Dow: Palinode in Which I Am Learning to Ask Forgiveness
- Beth Gylys: Breakup as Naked Barbie on the Side of the Road
- Lauren K. Watel: Out There
- Chet Weise: the calculus of dusk: march 11, 2020–march 11, 2023
Contents
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Featured Poet
Mitchell Atkinson III
Gregory Pardlo
- Charm for Darkness
- Apology for the Use of Charms
- Charm for Enduring the Dark Night of the Soul
- Charm for the Transmigration of the Soul
- Theater Selfie
- Question and Answer/a>
- Tall Poppies
- Convertible
- Problema 3
- Philadelphia, Negro
- Title It Shotgun Wound
- The Miniaturist
Matt W. Miller
- Featured Essay
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Poems
- Palavi Ahuja
- Dan Albergotti
- The Frog Priests of Amherst, Virginia
- David Barber
- Eric Bliman
- My Wife's Dental Mold Inspires Fear She Won't Outlive Me
- Elijah Perseus Blumov
- Aristotle Upon Lesbos
- Greg Brownderville
- dead died
- donut land
- turquoise limousines
- missmas
- Charles Byrne
- Nurture
- Cameron Clark
- Mirrorself
- Carson Colenbaugh
- Water Striders
- Weston Cutter
- The Hook
- Erica Dawson
- Portrait of the artist as treatment-resistant
- Mood Swing
- Stay Apparatus
- Hannah Dow
- Tara A. Elliott
- Thread
- Stephen Gibson
- Mao-Hope March 1966
- Access + Opportunity = Success 1993
- Untitled Xerox Cut-Out (Study for Oozewald) 1989
- Trashing Folgers (1993–94)
- Tanya as a Bandit 1989
- Benjamin S. Grossberg
- Octopus Grindr
- Beth Gylys
- Henry Hart
- Tai Tai at Vineyard Haven
- Gobi Pandas
- John Hodgen
- Belchertown 40, Ayer 14
- Christopher Howell
- Nothing to Do
- Caleb Johnson
- Meditation on Nature as an Ideal
- David M. Katz
- The Young Philatelist
- A Trickle of Warmth
- Karl Kirchwey
- White Coat Ceremony
- White Heat (1949)
- Daniel Lassell
- Frame
- Orlando Ricardo Menes
- Elegy for William Blake
- At Stickle Ghyll
- Matt W. Miller
- A Spring Snow
- Front Row
- Charles Michael Pawluk
- Skeuomorph
- David J. Rothman
- Hair
- Rusty Rushton
- Dreamscape Fugue
- J. D. Schraffenberger
- The Schoolteacher
- The Geologist
- Claire Scott
- Neurons on the Loose in the Brain of an Eighty Year Old
- Valerie A. Smith
- Me and my brother and that night
- Jennifer Sutherland
- Alcestis as a Kubrick Film Ending in a Line by Lynda Hull
- Alcestis as a Trial, an Ekstasis, a Whereas, or a Problem
- Alcestis as an Affidavit
- Alcestis as a Hon, but not the Kitschy, Cute Kind
- Richard Tillinghast
- A Spy in the House of Pain
- Beale Street and the Peabody Hotel
- The Messenger
- Lauren K. Watel
- Out There
- Last Dip Before the Fall
- Chet Weise
- the calculus of dusk: march 11, 2020–march 11, 2023
- hello, peloton, welcome to your thiry minute mental health awareness ride
- Will Wells
- Oh, Snap
- Alan Williamson
- The Burden (1954)
- The Burden (1976)
- The Burden (2000s)
- To Joyce in the Otherworld from Berkeley in Autumn
- David Morales Zenquis
- Stillborn



