Issue Nine
Poetry
Terrance Hayes | At Pegasus
Alicia Lai | Dionysus Approves
Jill McDonough | Ken Chukwuba, Salt Lake City
It’s What You Said You Wanted
Richie Hofmann | Midwinter
Camille Guillot | Belle Dame Sans
Adina Lasser | General Electric
Sean Patrick Hill | History of Snow
Meryl DePasquale | Nest Egg
Jay G. Ying | How to Save a Stillborn
Under Heaven, Winds
Mario Chard | In Fables
Talin Tahajian | Farm Boys
Shelley Wong | Epithalamium
Sara Biggs Chaney | Testimony, After the Mastectomy
Joe Wilkins | Notes from the Journey Westward
Prose
AM Ringwalt | Babies
Uzodinma Okehi | The Deuce
Dani Sandal | 97%
Torn Porter | Cynthia
Michael Chaney | Gambols in Counting
Jameson Rader | The Lady at the Bellagio Bar
Andrew Mangan | All + One
Matthew Dexter | The Evolution of Granny’s Panties
The Good Stuff
Luisa Banchoff | Review of “Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone” by Annelyse Gelman
Lois Carlisle | A Conversation with Stephen Burt
Cody Ernst | Review of “The Rusted City” by Rochelle Hurt
Art
Annabelle DeCamillis | Duke of Birmingham
Madeline Rile Smith | Chimera
Adam Amram | Horse
Katiuscia Gregoire | Busts
Brian Oldham | Self-Revelation
Adroit Prizes
Poetry: Nathan Durham: “Chevrolet,” selected by Richie Hofmann
Runner Up: Ian Burnette: “Harvests”
Honorable Mention: Oriana Tang: “Chinese New Year”
Honorable Mention: Maddie Kim: “Mothers in July”
Honorable Mention: Emily Knott: “Elegy Broadcast from the Top of a Radio Tower”
Prose: Isabel DeBre: “Digging,” selected by Wendy Rawlings
Runner Up: Madeleine Cravens: “Girls and Boys: Growing Up in Four Parts”
Honorable Mention: Dalton Fischer Linnett: “When Dutch Klaas was Fearless”
Honorable Mention: Frances Saux: “Difficult”
Honorable Mention: Catherine Mosier-Mills: “The Practical Applications of Calculus”
Editors’ List: Camara Brown, Alicia Lai, Cheryl Julia Lee, Emma Lister, Kyle Michelson, Torn Porter, Christina Qiu, AM Ringwalt, Lucy Wainger, Megan Walters, and Jay G. Ying.
