Issue II — September 2020
Poetry
MP Armstrong — “mcdli”
Rachel Bernstein — “There are Four” and “Family in Three Parts”
Makenzie Beckstead — “Femininity”
Taylor Bland — “Curses and Gratitude“
Liz Chadwick Pywell — “Raised by gulls”
Emily Chang — “effeuiller la rose“
Olivia Farrar — “No Hymns for Hyper Realities”
Morgan Flodman — “Kit Kat”
Anne Gvozdjak — “upon entering foreign city limits”
Quan Harris-Holley — “After the Afro”
Jessica Kim — “love story”
Julieanne Larick — “If We Weren’t in Cleveland” and “Do You Have a Plan?”
Ari Lohr — “The Law of Conservation in Four Acts,” “ELEGY (ii.),”
“ELEGY (iii.),” “Gravity,” and “Plant Nanny”
Tho Nguyen — “rhapsody of light” and “cradle of stars”
Praise Osawaru — “my anxiety compels me to write a hymn for myself or perhaps it’s a prayer in verses” and “Mindscape”
Laura Owens — “lost incantation”
Simran Pandey — “i sense that the sunflowers have died,” “color,” “life from death,” “summertime orange juice,” and “no one likes bruised mangoes”
Elizabeth Shvarts — “Sweet Nothing” and “Canary in a Coal Mine”
Jaiden Thompson — “pretty things skinny things”
Nathaniel Voll — “Sumatra, 1945”
Sunny Vuong — “everyone loves a fighter”
Blythe Wong — “dear diary,” “the candy in the back of my mouth,” “Michelangelo Child,” “Icarus, My Love,” and “the world remains cold”
Allison Zhuang — “euneirophrenia” and “ax^2 + bx + c”
Prose
Avalon Lee — “Ariana Grande v. Mozart”
Melissa Mulvihill — “Chariotless God”
Laura Ogden — “The Old Green House on the Mountaintop”
Katie Rebhan — “Maybe (Not)”
Karina Samuel — “Your Commentary, by the Mirrors”
Yash Seyedbagheri — “Falling Forward”
Blythe Wong — “The Color of Lightning”
Visual Art
Sulola Imran Abiola — “Becoming a Victor”
Paul Dakota — “aural,” “citadel,” “formations (green),” and “blue rust”
DARKRECONSTRUCTION — “Familiar Faces — Redux”
Rutika Deshpande — “Unnamed Love” and “Fragmented Maze”
Elwing Gao — “Rainy Day Saudade,” “Paddle,” “Soul Studies,” “Seconds,” “Compound 1,” and “Compound 2”
Luana Góes — “waorani” and “dream”
Annabelle Tjio — “Discontinued,” “Melting Pot,” “New Hobbies,” and
“Open for Social Distance”
Zhan — “color study, pt. 1”
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