POETRY

Her Birth and Later Years

by Irena Klepfisz

In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful

by Abigail Chabitnoy

In a Few Minutes Before Later

by Brenda Hillman

Lapis

by Kerri Webster

Belly to the Brutal

by Jennifer Givhan

The Writing of an Hour

by Brenda Coultas

The Age of Phillis

by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Finalists

by Rae Armantrout

The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore

by Sylvie Kandé

Asked What Has Changed

by Ed Roberson

Be Brave to Things

by Jack Spicer

Edited by Daniel Katz

The Past

by Wendy Xu

The Blue Split Compartments

by Andrea Brady

Elegguas

by Kamau Brathwaite

Magnified

by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Born to Slow Horses

by Kamau Brathwaite