May 2023

Cover artist: Tré Seals

Don’t let the world
and its desires
ruin you.
Cynthia Cruz

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Charif Shanahan
- Editor’s Note
Marie Howe
- Postscript
- Chainsaw
- Persephone 3
Robert Wood Lynn
- We Got Used to the Surprises
Brian Tierney
- Renting
- The Butterfly
- Long Distance
Danusha Laméris
- Night Bird
Álvaro de Campos
- “Sim, não tenho razão”
- “No, you’re right, I’m wrong”
Margaret Jull Costa, Patricio Ferrari
- On “No, you’re right, I’m wrong”
Mona Kareem
- لیلیات
- Nights
Sara Elkamel
- On “Nights”
Cynthia Cruz
- Dark Register
Kathryn Nuernberger
- A Sense of Belonging
Lucia Cherciu
- Butter, Olive Oil, Flour
Rodney Gómez
- Mortification by Census
Kim Hyesoon
- 안새와 밖새
- Inside-Bird and Outside-Bird
- 쌍시옷 쌍시옷
- Double S Double S
Unknown
- From “Annot and John”
- John’s Knot
Rachel Linn
- On “John’s Knot”
Diana Marie Delgado
- Easter
- Lomita, California
- Tommy
D. Nurkse
- The Dim Tenements
Randall Mann
- After Roethke
- The Ritz
Toi Derricotte
- My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: “Speak the unspeakable.”
- After “Soft Science” by Franny Choi
Rodrigo Toscano
- Happy Campus
Tomaž Šalamun
- Črne ovalne oblike
- Black Oval Shapes
- Ljudska
- Folk Song
- Riba
- The Fish
Brian Henry
- On “Black Oval Shapes,” “Folk Song,” and “The Fish”
J. Mae Barizo
- Kissing through a Curtain: Notes on Translation